• Commentary -- Veterans Day: The most important 11/11/11

    Friday's date is a once-in-a-century date: 11/11/11. Many people hold superstitions about the number 11, especially when multiple 11s come together.Some believe that if you kiss your watch when you see 11:11, you'll have good luck. Others see it as ominous. Hollywood has even produced a thriller

  • Giving second life to those black boots, T-shirts

    Since black boots and black T-shirts are no longer approved uniform items, 1st Lt. Michelle Bosch, an instructor pilot from the 32nd Flying Training Squadron at Vance Air Force Base, is collecting them to donate to the nonprofit organization, Soles 4 Souls.The organization collects shoes from

  • Operation Cookie Cutter supplies deployed Vance Airmen lots of goodies

    The Airman & Family Readiness Center planned to bake 2,000 cookies to send to deployed Airmen from Vance Air Force Base. Instead, due to the tremendous response of Team Vance, they ended up with 7,000."We had planned on sending each deployed Airman two dozen cookies, but they ended up getting four

  • Five civilian positions eliminated at Vance

    Five civilian positions have been or will be eliminated from the 71st Flying Training Wing at Vance Air Force Base following manpower and budget cuts directed by Air Force leadership. There are no contract positions at Vance affected by these cuts."The people who are filling the positions the 71st