• Vance Marines take WWII veteran on a trip to visit Marine Memorial

    Two U.S. Marine Corps student pilots at Vance AFB took an Enid, Okla., Marine veteran of World War II to Washington, D.C., over the Memorial Day weekend to visit the Marine Corps War Memorial.There, Jim Goodrich saw for the second time a U.S. flag he first saw raised atop Mount Suribachi during the

  • Vance drinking water meets federal, state standards

    The annual Consumer Confidence Report on the quality of tap water for Vance AFB is complete. Vance's drinking water is well within all federal and state-mandated standards and is safe to drink.Bioenvironmental Engineering routinely monitors water purchased from the city of Enid. The Enid water

  • Area things to do over the July Fourth weekend

    Vance Airmen will enjoy a four-day weekend thanks to an Air Education and Training Command family day, Friday, July 1, and the July Fourth holiday on Monday.There are a variety of events and locations worth visiting within a few hours drive of Vance AFB. Here are a few examples.On base, the Falcon's

  • OSA program keeps better track of Vance’s aircraft, pilots

    Nearly every day, the skies above Vance are filled with the roar of plane engines. Hundreds of sorties are flown on any given day, both in local airspace and on cross-country missions. Keeping track of each plane and pilot is a complicated process, but a necessary one. Fortunately, the new