• VAFB sexual assault victims are not alone

    April has been designated Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. The purpose of this designation is to educate the general population on the longstanding problem of sexual assault in the United States. As members of the United States Air Force, this issue should hit close to home. One only

  • Commitment to our community the best

    Team Vance -- your commitment to our community makes working at Vance AFB the best!Today, Chief Jeff Kallas and I are returning from Washington, D.C., where we met the Oklahoma Congressional Delegation and passed one message -- serving at Vance AFB is a blessing and we need their help to continue

  • Appreciate Our Veterans

    Hundreds of thousands visit Pearl Harbor and the Arizona memorial each year as a tribute to our fallen comrades who gave so much and faced such horror. Hundreds of thousands visit the memorials in Washington D.C. every year, hundreds or less gather to pay tribute to our veterans of foreign wars in

  • Keep safety in forefront of thoughts during holiday

    As we gather together and prepare to celebrate the holiday season, I want to personally thank all of the people who make up the 71st Flying Training Wing for helping to make 2006 an unqualified success! We accomplished our mission by training more than 400 new pilots while also deploying nearly 100

  • ORM, Core Values provide map to success

    The bad news was apparent to everyone returning to work after the long Thanksgiving holiday. It was hard to miss the single digit displayed on the marquee to reflect the number of days since our last alcohol related incident. That the number had to be lowered twice to reflect the two incidents

  • Don't put off eliminating procrastination

    The American Heritage defines procrastination as; to put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness; to postpone or delay needlessly. A sign in my office, author unknown says, "I can and I will if I want." I think that sums up the idea of procrastination for most

  • OSS commander encourages all to get pumped up on physical fitness

    The new Air Force physical fitness program has received a lot of press over the last year. It is a hot topic because we are witnessing a fundamental cultural shift in Air Force life. None of us were really happy with the cycle ergonometry program. It just didn't sit well with the warrior spirit that

  • Welcome, congratulate Team Vance Airmen

    Team Vance -- Get out and welcome our newest expeditionary air warriors! Today at 3 p.m. at the First Term Airman's Center we are inducting our newest Vance Air Force Base Airmen. Please come out to warmly welcome them to our team. These Airmen are the future of our military and it is our

  • Construction, fun continues

    Team Vance -- you continue to impress me with your warrior spirit and "sheer will power" to make things better! Monday marked a fantastic day for Team Vance with the official opening of our new T-1A maintenance hangar. We've wanted one for about eight years and it's finally completed -- and what a

  • Preparedness key to TDY success

    As we prepare for yet another Air and Space Expeditionary Force cycle, I wanted to share my thoughts and personal experiences about deployment preparedness. Many years ago, long before the AEF concept existed, I learned the hard way to prepare for TDYs. I was a unit deployment manager and