• Fire prevention week increases awareness

    The Vance Fire Department continues to increase fire safety awareness through its annual fire prevention week. The event, hosted by the Vance Fire Department worked to increase fire protection and safety through fire extinguisher training classes, smoke detector training for young children and a

  • Fiscal 2010 successfully closed out at Vance

    All but $1,000 of the $94.2 million operations and maintenance budget at Vance was spent when the men and women of the 71st Comptroller Squadron and the 71st Contracting Flight left the building at 1:30 a.m., Oct. 1."We were able to fund everything on our unfunded list except for some pavement

  • 71st Security Forces Squadron gets a new commander

    An assumption of command ceremony for the 71st Security Forces Squadron at Vance is scheduled at 2:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 7, at the Vance Collocated Club.Capt. Douglas Whitehead, coming to Vance from Lackland AFB, Texas, will be the squadron's new commander. He brings a well-rounded set of skills

  • Johnston selected Wing Airman of the Month for September

    Airman Tiffany Johnston, a logistics planner with the 71st Logistics Readiness Squadron, is the Wing Airman of the Month for September. From Los Angeles, Calif., Airman Johnston has been in the Air Force for nine months and Vance is her first assignment.To become Airman of the Month, Airman Johnston