• OSS NCOs tops in AETC

    Two NCOs from the 71st Operations Support Squadron recently received command level recognition for their outstanding performance as NCO and SNCO of the year for 2003. MSgt Joseph Andrukaitis earned the Air Education and Training Command Gardner Award for Outstanding Weather Senior NCO and TSgt

  • Honorary commanders tour base

    Several Vance AFB honorary commanders visited here Friday afternoon for a mission briefing and windshield tour hosted by Col Mike Callan, 71st Flying Training Wing commander. Eight of the 17 honorary commanders were treated to the first of several base visits designed to educate them on the mission

  • Flight marks end of era

    A forty year-old plane trained its last student Tuesday bringing to an end more than 40 years of the T-38A "Talon," which is being replaced by the T-38C, flew its last student sortie Tuesday after training roughly 20,000 students since its arrival in April 1963. "The T-38A has served the 25th Flying

  • Aircraft X-rays reveal similarity to medical applications

    What does an aircraft nondestructive testing laboratory, or NDI, have in common with hospital radiology class that would bring the two together? The answer is X-ray technology and how it can aid in mending broken aircraft as well as broken bones. A recent visit to the NDI shop on Vance AFB by the

  • Hanscom team evaluates VAFB

    A Systems Evaluation Assessment team out of Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., is here starting Monday to test Team Vance's preparedness. The three-man team, who works for Synergy Inc., has been contracted by the Air Force to spend six days evaluating the base's response times and vigilance through a