• Vance lieutenant prepares to solo at IFS

    (Lieutenant Gross is currently attending Doss Initial Flight Screening at Pueblo Memorial Airport, Colo., prior to beginning his Joint Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training at Vance AFB.)This last week was the first time I have flown all five days since I got here. I was relieved to have good

  • Spouses clubs bake, decorate cookies for delivery to enlisted dorms

    More than 1,000 cookies were baked and decorated for delivery to the two enlisted dormitories at Vance this year during the Officers Spouses Club and Enlisted Spouses Group Airmen Cookie Drive.The cookies, mostly sugar cookies, were baked and brought to the Community Chapel Activity Center Dec. 13.

  • Sharing an Oklahoma Christmas Saturday morning

    (The following is a letter a young boy named Brody might have written to his deployed mother and father about Saturday's Breakfast with Santa in Hangar 170.)Dear Daddy and Mommy,I am so looking forward to both of you coming home. Everyone in Oklahoma is getting ready for the holidays. We've hung our

  • Airman saves Wingman from halfway around the world

    Police officials are crediting the quick actions of a security forces Airman here with saving the life of a former Airman living halfway around the world.Senior Airman Jordan Gunterman, a 379th Air Expeditionary Wing fly-away security team leader, led authorities to his former coworker's Florida