• MDOS NCOs named tops in command

    Two NCOs with the 71st Medical Operations Squadron recently garnered recognition with Air Education and Training Command awards for being the best in 2003. MSgt Bradley Tucker and SSgt Lori Shackleford earned the Aerospace Physiology Senior NCO and NCO awards. "I'm thrilled for MSgt Tucker and SSgt

  • 25th FTS command changes hands

    Command of the 25th Flying Training Squadron changed hands Thursday during a ceremony in the Vance Club. Lt Col Nicholas Sandwick relinquished command of the 25th FTS to Lt Col Leonard Litton. Colonel Litton joins the 25th FTS after serving as the Vance chief of Safety. Colonel Sandwick was

  • Installation Restoration Program inspects, cleans Vance

    In a continuing effort to locate and clean up any contamination sites at Vance Air Force Base, a remedial action project for the Industrial Zone will begin Feb 23. The project is expected to last two months and will involve three separate actions. First, an extraction system to pump out gasoline

  • Young Vance residents accepted to AF Academy

    Two Vance teenagers were recently accepted to attend the US Air Force Academy in Colorado. Joshua Ellis and Kallyn Johnson, Enid High School seniors and Vance residents, were notified in late November and December of their selections to the Air Force college. According to the Academy's Website, it

  • Father speaks at graduation

    Twenty-four officers will earn their pilot's wings at the Joint Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training Class 04-04 graduation at 10 a.m. today in the auditorium. The graduates spent 54 weeks studying flying fundamentals, checklist usage, emergency procedures, aviation physiology, applied