• 71st FTW deployed members shine

    Currently, there are 10 people deployed globally from Vance Air Force Base. TSgt Jesus Rodriguez, 33rd Flying Training Squadron, and A1C Dustin Willis, 71st Security Forces Squadron, are two of Team Vance's deployed members. Sergeant Rodriguez is part of a Planification Assistant Training Team,

  • Lieutenant speaks in foreign tongue for community

    (Editor's note: Mrs. Jones' name has been changed to preserve her privacy.) The ability of a Team Vance lieutenant to speak and read a second language turned out to be a life-changing gift to a member of the Waynoka community. As it turns out, 2nd Lt Nathan Rhoads' proficiency in the Russian

  • 8 days of Chanukah begins tonight

    This year Chanukah, the festival of lights begins tonight and lasts for eight days. All around the world Jewish people celebrate the holiday to commemorate an event that took place over 2,300 years ago in the land of Judea, which is now Israel. The story begins long ago in the land of Judea when the

  • Combat Readiness Course: preparing for action at Kegelman

    The cracks of fired rounds ring out and Airmen quickly duck into their Defensive Fighting Positions. The rounds may be blanks, but the training is as real as it gets. Seventeen members of the 71st Flying Training Wing attended the Combat Readiness Course Nov. 14 to 17. While "deployed" to Kegelman

  • Midair Collision Avoidance Program decreases aircraft accidents

    Vance Air Force Base is one of the Air Force's busiest airports with over 500,000 takeoffs and landings logged each year. The military airspace surrounding Vance AFB extends approximately 50 miles north, 30 miles east and south, and 90 miles west of the base. Additionally, Vance AFB training is

  • Team Vance airman becomes American citizen

    Seventeen months of paperwork, fingerprints, interviews and waiting finally culminated into one momentous ceremony for an 8th Flying Training Squadron workgroup manager. SrA Mario Coronado, formerly a Guatemalan citizen, became an American citizen during a ceremony March 11 at Oklahoma State

  • Media witnesses the last "A" model

    The last T-38A sorties flew Tuesday and up with them went media from the area, television news and newspapers. Marianne Silber, KOCO channel 5 reporter and Kevin Hassler, Enid News and Eagle associate editor, both went up in the improved version of the T-38, the C model and accompanied the last

  • Vance NCO gives special gift

    Most everyone's holiday gifts to their parents are heartfelt, whether it's an article of clothing, a fragile collectible or even a handmade item. One Vance Air Force Base staff sergeant improved his father's life. When Robert Hoy suffered a stroke in July, his family feared his only functioning

  • 5th Flying Training Squadron dedicated to duty

    Most people, when asked about the Air Force Reserves, think about the "weekend warrior" who participates one weekend a month and two weeks during the year. In this time of increased operations tempo, reservists are filling an ever-increasing role in national defense. You hear about them every day;

  • 32nd IP earns AETC athlete of the year

    Vance's 2002 Athlete of the Year was recently named Air Education and Training Command's male representative for the 2003 Armed Forces Military Athlete of the Year. Capt Daniel LeBoeuf, 32nd Flying Training Squadron instructor pilot, has earned the AETC title by running throughout the armed forces,