• 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

  • 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