• Team Vance relaxes after months of hard work

    After months of hard work preparing for the Air Education and Training Command Unit Compliance Inspection, Team Vance set aside several hours to relax and play at the "It's a Wrap! Bash," held in Hangar 170 Monday afternoon. More than 1,000 Vance Airmen and family members feasted on barbecue, hot

  • Wing receives Satisfactory on UCI inspection

    On March 2, the Air Education and Training Command inspection team informed a standing-room-only crowd in the base auditorium here that Team Vance had earned a Satisfactory rating on the Unit Compliance Inspection conducted Feb. 20-27. "A kill is a kill," Col. Chris Nowland, the 71st Flying Training

  • Procedures for sponsoring guests on base change

    Sometimes change is hard, and sometimes it is just plain annoying. Especially when a seemingly simple process, like sponsoring someone on base, becomes more complicated. According to the new Installation Security Instruction, you will no longer be able to call into the Visitors Center to sponsor

  • Savings Bond program offers an affordable investment

    "The U.S. Savings Bond program offers an affordable investment that helps increase personal savings and provides competitive interest rates with the convenience of a systematic savings plan" said Gordon England, Deputy Defense Secretary. Series EE bonds earn 1.30 percent while Series I bonds earn

  • Air Force reinstates Good Conduct Medal for enlisted Airmen

    Air Force officials have announced the reinstatement of the Good Conduct Medal for exemplary service by enlisted Airmen. Reinstatement of the medal is effective Feb. 11, officials said. The Air Force Uniform Board announced on Feb. 6, 2006, that the Good Conduct Medal would no longer be awarded. It