• Ministry center for Vance’s junior Airmen opens Friday

    An Airmen Ministry Center for all E-4s and below at Vance Air Force Base will hold a grand opening at 5 p.m., Friday, Nov. 30, in the Community Chapel Activity Center on base.The center is equipped with $8,000 worth of furniture and games, including a foosball table, 60-inch television with Xbox and

  • Base Christmas Tree lights up during ceremony Wednesday

    Lights on the Vance Christmas Tree will be switched on during a ceremony scheduled for 5 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 5, near the T-38 Talon display across the street from Eisenhower Elementary School on base."The ceremony will begin when the national anthem is played," said Chaplain (Capt.) Jon Bravinder,

  • Prescription fax service now available at Vance pharmacy

    The Vance Air Force Base pharmacy now accepts faxed prescriptions from civilian medical providers or treatment facilities.Instead of writing out a prescription on a piece of paper, your doctor or other healthcare provider can enter it directly into his or her computer and fax directly to the Vance

  • Spouses find success in home-based businesses

    Maybe I'm dating myself, but when my husband first entered the military, the only people that got to work from home were involved in direct-sell businesses like Pampered Chef and PartyLite.While I avoided these people like a plague at first, I was also secretly wondering how I could land a

  • The hardest part of giving up tobacco – making the commitment

    For me, giving up cigarettes wasn't the hard part about quitting -- it was deciding to make the commitment to quit after smoking for five years that was the real challenge.When I first decided to quit it was just a seed of an idea, and like any seed it had to be coaxed into growing.For me, the seed