Team Vance honors life, service of 1st Lt. Jahna Foland

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VANCE AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. --  A memorial service for 1st Lt. Jahna Foland, 32nd Flying Training Squadron, is planned for 4 p.m., April 16, in Hangar 170. The base flag will be flown at half-mast that day in honor of her life and service.

Lieutenant (Haldeman) Foland arrived here in the summer of 2006 from the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. and graduated pilot training May 16, 2008 in Class 08-09. After pilot training, Lieutenant Foland was assigned to the 32nd FTS as a T-1 Jayhawk First Assignment Instructor Pilot. October 25, 2008, she married 1st Lt. David Foland, slated as a Vance T-6A Texasn II pilot.

Before starting Pilot Instructor Training at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, Lieutenant Foland fell ill and was diagnosed with a fast-moving lung cancer. She was treated at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. 

Lieutenant Foland's last military flight was from the Vance flight line in a T-1 back to her home town of Allentown, Pennsylvania. Lieutenant Foland passed away there April 1. First Lt. Jahna Foland will be greatly missed by the Air Force and Team Vance.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made online to the United States Air Force Aid Society.