• Preparing Airmen to survive, thrive during deployments

    Deploying into harm's way is serious business. Preparing Vance Airmen for deployment is a business Calvin Miller takes very seriously. "We send out an average of 80 to 100 people a year," said Mr. Miller, the Vance installation deployment officer since moving here last July from Mountain Home AFB,

  • After market uniforms may present risk

    The Air Force authorized a single all-season version of the Airman's Battle Uniform, or ABU, for wear service-wide, making any other version or claims of a summer weight uniform unauthorized. The one exception is a 100 percent cotton ABU, which is only authorized for wear in the firefighter and

  • Vance military working dog section works hard, plays hard

    All Airmen are familiar with the wingman concept -- but who says your wingman needs to be human? Technical Sgt. Carinae Samsel and Staff Sgt. Patricia Fuller's wingmen are of a different breed. As part of the 71st Security Forces Squadron's Military Working Dog section, these women rely on a canine

  • Biggest Losers round two -- keeping the weight a-weigh

    Attention 2009 Biggest Loser participants -- if you thought the competition was over, think again. For the first time in Vance's Biggest Loser history, the Fitness Center is offering a Biggest Loser follow-up to see who has lost additional weight or maintained their weight since the final weigh-in