• Vance NCO on supplemental promotion list for senior

    When the senior master sergeant board met, Master Sgt. LaRisa Toy was in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, on her fourth deployment in a 23-year Air Force career. The only thing missing from her package was a current promotion fitness exam. She tested shortly after redeploying to Vance and her

  • Ground broken for new housing community

    Ground was broken Monday, June 18, celebrating a new housing construction project near Eisenhower Elementary school here. The project is part of the privatized housing contract with Pinnacle-Hunt, Communities LLC. It will be built on the northeast side of Vance. The 132-acre parcel of land was

  • Vance water safe to drink

    The annual Consumer Confidence Report on the quality of tap water for Vance AFB is complete. Vance's drinking water is well within all federal and state mandated standards and is safe to drink. The report helps base consumers understand the quality of water received by Vance from the Enid water

  • Class 55-Q presents memorial plaque to Vance

    Flying cadet Albert Nichols received his pilot wings at Vance Air Force Base about the same time his fiancé was graduating from Enid High School. Fifty-three years later, now retired Air Force Maj. Al Nichols brought that same young lady, now his wife of almost 53 years, back to Vance for a Class