• AETC concludes 2007 Symposium highlighting mission, impact, initiatives

    Fifty Team Vance members returned from San Antonio Saturday after attending Air Education and Training Command's 2007 Symposium that featured two days of seminars, lectures and guest speakers, and concluded with an Air Force 60th Anniversary ball. Gen. William R. Looney III, AETC commander, kicked

  • Kids Investigate Deployment Services "enlistments" underway

    Operation KIDS wants you - provided you're an active-duty, Reserve or Guard military dependent between the ages of 5 and 12. Operation KIDS (Kids Investigating Deployment Services) is a hands-on event designed to give children in military families an understanding of what parents experience prior to

  • Awareness key to suicide prevention

    Suicide is preventable and recognizing a problem is the first step to getting help. Suicide Prevention Week, Sunday through Sept. 15, serves to remind service members and their families that help is available as close as a home computer or telephone with the Mental Health Self-Assessment Program.

  • Town hall meeting addresses privatization concerns

    New leases and resident guidelines were the main topics of discussion at the town hall meeting that addressed upcoming housing privatization initiatives Thursday at the youth center. Vance AFB is one of six bases finalizing their housing privatization contracts in late September, said Col. Rod