USAFE commander visits Vance, speaks at AFA dinner Published Nov. 3, 2009 VANCE AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. -- The commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe had breakfast with more than 40 Vance Airmen Monday at the Community Chapel Activity Center during his visit to the base Nov. 1-3. Gen. Roger Brady was in town to address the Enid Air Force Association Chapter 214's Community Partners dinner at the Cherokee Strip Conference Center downtown, Monday, Nov. 2. General Brady's wife, Litha, had lunch with the spouses of senior base leadership at Costello's restaurant in Enid Monday. Monday afternoon, General Brady held a press conference at the 71st Medical Group where he discussed USAFE and its mission with reporters from the Enid News & Eagle and the Oklahoman newspapers and local radio stations. Before holding a student pilots call at the Base Auditorium Tuesday morning, Nov. 3, General Brady had breakfast with Vance's chief master sergeants and first sergeants at the Falcon's Nest Bowling Center. General Brady departed Vance Tuesday morning aboard an Air Force C-20. General Brady lived in Enid as a child when his father, Ed Brady, was the football coach at Enid High School. He was commissioned into the U.S. Air Force through Air Force ROTC at the University of Oklahoma in 1969, and graduated pilot training at Vance in 1973. He has been the USAFE commander since January 2008.