• New SNCOs inducted into Top 3

    Ten Vance Air Force Base NCOs were welcomed into the elite senior NCO ranks during a ceremony Oct. 7 at the Vance Club. The Top 3-sponsored event included a formal entrance, candle-lighting ceremony and the reading of the Senior NCO Challenge and Oath. After the readings, Command Chief Master

  • Security forces K-9, handler

    One of Team Vance's own military working dogs, Lissy, recently deployed a few times to "rub elbows" with Washington officials. Her handler, SSgt Joseph Gully, trailed along to keep her in check. The two left for their first trip Aug. 26 to perform security at the Republican National Convention at

  • Finance closes out fiscal 2004 budget

    The 71st Comptroller Squadron funded wing facility projects and unfunded items totaling more than $4 million at the fiscal 2004 closeout Sept. 30. The 71st Flying Training Wing received $2,922,900 for facility projects and $1,244,700 for items on its unfunded list. "The most important project was

  • Instructor pilot earns safety award

    Quick thinking and good emergency training earned a 25th Flying Training Squadron instructor a wing safety award recently. Maj Jeff Bakken, 25th FTS assistant director of operations, received the 71st Flying Training Wing Flying Safety Award for safely landing a T-38C aircraft that experienced

  • Wing flying hours close out day early

    Vance Air Force Base flying hours for fiscal 2004 zeroed out Tuesday, one day ahead of Air Education and Training Command's set schedule. The T-1As completed 28,498 hours, the T-37s completed 44,391 hours and the T-38s completed 17,518 hours. AETC directs the number of hours Team Vance must complete