• Team Vance garners safety awards

    Vance Air Force Base is proud to recognize the newest award winners for the Quarterly Safety Awards and the Air Force Chief of Safety Award.AETC Quarterly Safety Awards for 1st Quarter 2009AETC Flight Safety Individual Award of Distinction This quarterly award recognizes an individual for

  • Vance holds Network Security Focus Day

    To foster awareness of the importance of cyberspace protection methods, Vance held a Network Security Focus Day March 4.The call for a Network Security Focus day came from Gen. Stephen R. Lorenz, commander, Air Education and Training Command. "Recent events have caused an increase in network

  • Vance student pilots add agricultural combine to class photo

    It began with an Oklahoma Wheat Harvest hat from a second-hand store in Enid and ended with Class 09-06 posing for a photo with a John Deere 9770 combine on the Vance AFB flight line, Thursday morning. The 18 members of Class 09-06 Joint Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training needed a design for

  • Vance skeet shooter began with borrowed gun

    A life-long love of skeet shooting began in the 1980s when Miles Crowell's roommates at Columbus AFB, Miss., invited him to give it a try one weekend. Eight months later he placed 3rd in the 20-gauge category of the Armed Forces International - with a borrowed gun. An Air Force Academy graduate, Mr.

  • Biggest Losers shed more than 400 pounds at second weigh in

    Participants in Vance's Biggest Loser weight-loss competition dropped 405 pounds at the second weigh-in March 6, bringing their total weight loss to 1,410.7 pounds, or almost 3 percent of their total starting weight.Through April 10, teams of four are competing to lose the most weight. Team members