• 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

  • Army Reserve unit practices bridge building

    Members of the 401st Engineer Company, Detachment 1, with the Army Reserve, practiced assembling a dry support bridge Nov. 2 behind the Armed Forces Reserve Center on base.The bridge is used to allow vehicles to pass over gaps of up to 150 feet or to replace damaged segments of bridges.The bridge