• 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

  • 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