• AF Ball Car Show scheduled at Oakwood Mall Aug. 27

    The 2011 Vance Air Force Ball planning committee is hosting a car, truck and motorcycle show Aug. 27 at the Oakwood Mall parking lot in Enid, Okla.Those interested in having their vehicles on display should contact Senior Airman Jordan Brown, the Air Force Ball Car Show coordinator, at 912-596-6500,

  • Building an extreme rock-crawler from scratch

    At first glance, Jack Cline's rock-crawling machine is a wild looking thing. The bright yellow panels and purple frame jump out at you. Add over-sized tires and you have one mean machine ready to climb over anything in its path. Cline's rock-crawler, built almost entirely at the Vance AFB Auto

  • Charron, Glen graduate from Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals

    The 3rd Fighter Training Squadron graduated Capts. Chris Charron and Pat Glen from Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals Class 11-JBV, Aug. 14.The pilots completed this phase of their training on their way to becoming fighter pilots in the F-16 Fighting Falcon and A-10 Thunderbolt II for the Combat

  • Vance donors give more than 12 gallons during on-base blood drive

    On July 29, more than 100 people came to Vance's Community Chapel Activity Center to donate blood to Oklahoma Blood Institute's most recent blood drive. With each donor giving at least a pint of blood, the drive collected more than 12 gallons of life-saving blood to be distributed to 156 hospitals

  • Team Vance ‘Feds Feed Families’ food donations reach 1,170 pounds

    As of Aug. 10, Team Vance has donated more than 1,170 pounds of food to the "Feds Feed Families" program for distribution to food banks in Enid, Okla.Two weeks remain for Team Vance to donate to the program, a Department of Defense drive to collect and donate 733,800 pounds of food to food banks