• Commanders, supervisors learn to ASIST

    Commanders, first sergeants and supervisors learned how to ASIST potentially suicidal Airmen during a seminar Monday and Tuesday at the Community Chapel Activity Center. The Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training augments life skills services by applying "first aid" tools to Airmen who might

  • Team Vance technician makes life-saving call

    It takes just a little time to change an ordinary day into an extraordinary one. When quick response in that bit of time can mean the difference between life and death. Shawn Hoffman, an engineering technician with Dyncorp civil engineering was having an ordinary day on July 15. He had finished

  • 5th FTS volunteers time at local center

    School is back in session, and thanks to members of the 5th Flying Training Squadron at Vance AFB, facilities at Booker T. Washington Community Center have a fresh, clean face and are ready for a new school year. Twenty-three Reservists and family members from the 5th FTS volunteered last weekend to

  • AETC assesses MSS programs, sets squadron up for success

    Vance AFB will be knee-deep in evaluators during the base's Operational Readiness Inspection in August 2005 - that is why the 71st Mission Support Squadron had a command-level Staff Assistance Visit Monday through Thursday to help assess unit programs and make improvements in plenty of time before