• Storm damages Vance AFB building

    The Sept. 23 storm didn't rank up with Hurricane Ivan, but it did do thousands of dollars of damage at Vance Air Force Base when a building under renovation was flooded by rainwater. Building 455 that houses the First Term Airmen Center, legal courtroom, wing safety, 71st Security Forces Squadron

  • SFS baton training keeps Air Force, Army fresh, protected

    "Get back! Get down!" echoed through the fitness center basketball court during 71st Security Forces Squadron tactical baton training Sept. 16 and 18. Air Force and Army security forces members completed four hours of classroom training and four hours of hands-on training to satisfy their annual

  • New aircraft shelters coming to Vance AFB

    The flight line at Vance Air Force Base will look very different in the near future. Construction will soon begin on aircraft protective weather shelters designed to cover 104 of the T-37, T-38 and T-1 aircraft stationed here. In early fiscal 2003, Gen Don Cook, commander of Air Education and

  • Team Vance keeps war memories alive

    American veterans who have been there and done that can now tell their stories to Team Vance members involved in the Veterans History Project to be preserved for future generations. Since 2000, volunteers from around the country have gathered and preserved wartime stories, written memoirs and

  • Civic leader tour enhances civilians' understanding

    Thirty local community leaders got a closer look at how the Air Force works, thanks to a civic leader tour Sept. 9 and 10. The tour increases U.S. citizens' awareness and understanding of the Air Force's role in national security by inviting groups of community leaders to witness the Air Force