• School Age Program meets Comenci, Conner

    Eleven children from Vance Air Force Base's School Age Program traveled to the Bart Conner Gymnastics Academy in Norman, Okla. June 18 to meet former Olympians Nadia Comaneci and Bart Conner and to learn about their careers and their academy. The children were able to hold real Olympic torches,

  • Kids, Counselors have a blast

    What's better than summer vacation from school? If you're a kid in Enid or a volunteer at Vance Air Force Base, it is summer camp. Camp Tomahawk concluded its 33rd annual two weeks of fun for kids and adults alike at Vance Friday. The camp runs one week Monday through Friday for boys ages nine

  • Medics under new leadership

    Colonel Otha Solomon, Jr. took command of the 71st Medical Group from Col. John McCafferty in a ceremony at 10 a.m. Friday in Hangar 199. Colonel Solomon comes to Vance from Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio, where he was chief of dental operations for Headquarters, Air Force Material Command. "Command is

  • 21 Team Vance members selected for new stripes

    The Air Force selected 6,002 of 24,115 eligible technical sergeants for promotion to master sergeant, and 7,314 of 39,797 eligible staff sergeants for promotion to technical sergeant. The master sergeant selection rate, 24.89 percent, rose 5.03 percent from last year, while this year's technical