• NORAD Tracks Santa Web site live for 2008

    The North American Aerospace Defense Command is again ready to track Santa! On Dec. 1, the NORAD Tracks Santa Web site, www.noradsanta.org, went live and features fun holiday games and activities that will change daily.On Dec. 24, Christmas Eve, NORAD will begin tracking Santa Claus' journey via

  • It's beginning to smell a lot like... fresh-baked cookies

    The smell of fresh-baked cookies filled the Community Chapel Activity Center Friday as members of the Officers' Spouses Club and the Enlisted Spouses Club prepared 1,080 holiday cookies. The annual Airmen Cookie Drive brings the two spouses clubs together to create holiday packages for unaccompanied

  • Vance Airman takes oath of allegiance to become U.S. citizen

    The United States will have a new citizen Friday when Airman 1st Class Alfonso Galan-Reyes takes the oath of allegiance at a naturalization ceremony in Oklahoma City. Airman Galan-Reyes is a computer support technician with the 71st Communications Squadron here. Although his family in Chicago won't

  • Vance clinic 'facility to be proud of'

    The 71st Medical Group opened doors to its newly-remodeled clinic with a ribbon- cutting ceremony Nov. 18. The $2.1 million reconstruction spanned 20 months in six-phases -- all while normal medical operations continued. "We moved entire medical operations to temporary locations and back again,"