• Reserve leaders visit Vance

    Vance Air Force Base was treated to a view from the top when Maj. Gen. James Sluder made a base orientation visit here Monday and Tuesday. General Sluder, the Mobilization Assistant to the Commander, Air Education and Training Command, and Col. Robert Williamson, 340th Flying Training Wing

  • 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