• Women encompass more than 40 years of Vance AFB history

    Almost 30 years of Team Vance history flowed out of a 1977 time capsule when it was opened in the wing commander's office Monday, but one woman present could account for a time even 21 years prior. Judy Ecker joined the Vance workforce in 1956, right after graduating from high school in Enid, Okla.

  • Graduation in sight after deployment

    A Vance officer didn't hesitate to continue with the college classmates he left behind for an Operation Iraqi Freedom deployment in 2003. An aeromedical technician staff sergeant in the Air Force reserves, now Capt. Erich Wanagat, 71st Medical Operations Squadron optometrist, began classes in 2001

  • Vance communicators tops in command

    The 71st Communications Squadron at Vance Air Force Base was recently named recipient of the Lt. Gen. Harold W. Grant Unit Award as the best small communications unit in the Air Education and Training Command for 2005. The 71st CS mission is to plan, program, maintain and provide communications and

  • Vance professional development changing with force

    Change, change and more change. It seems like every week there is more news about how our Air Force is changing. Author Alvin Toffler, in his book "Future Shock," states "The illiterate of the future are not those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn." There are

  • SFS assists Enid PD with bomb threat

    The 71st Security Forces Squadron lent a helping hand to the Enid Police Department March 9 during a bomb-threat investigation at a local school. The threat was written on a mirror in a girls' bathroom at Waller Junior High School March 6, said Amber Graham Fitzgerald, Enid Public Schools community