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Warrior of the Week: Tech. Sgt. Jeremy Belair

Photo by 1st Lt. Nicole Poff

Council changes centers’ hours

(Photo by Staff Sgt. Amanda Savannah) Lynn Mitzel, child development center toddler caregiver, blows bubbles for the toddlers to pop.

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Governor visits

(Photo by Terry Wasson) Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry visited Enid, Okla., and Vance Air Force Base July 27 for the official opening of Gott Road at Southgate Road. Col. Bryan Benson, 71st Flying Training Wing commander, also spoke at the ceremony. Gott Road will become the new entry for Vance when the main gate moves to Southgate.

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Network upgrade = faster speed, no tickets

Tony Sheets, Computer Sciences Corporation senior systems administrator, runs a diagnostics program on a switch that will be used as part of the Aug. 12 and 13 upgrade of the base network. The upgrade will result in a four- times faster transfer of data on the local area network.(Photo by Frank McIntyre)

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Network upgrade = faster speed, no tickets

Mike Armour, Computer Science Corporation network analyst, adds a connection one of the new network switchs. This switch is the first of four to be installed on-base as part of a computer network upgrade. This first one was installed Monday in the network control center as a pilot for the complete upgrade that will take place Aug. 12 and 13.(Photo by Frank McIntyre)

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Warrior of the Week: Staff Sgt. Laura Rosenzweig

Photo By 1st Lt. Nicole Poff

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A welcome sight

Navy veteran Douglas Brown talks with Airman 1st Class Christopher Floyd, 71st Operations Support Squadron air traffic control, Tech. Sgt. Robert Caithaml, 71st Flying Training Wing quality assurance, and Airman 1st Class Cesar Perez, 71st Comptroller Squadron financial analyst, during an Air Force Sergeants Association Chapter 990 visit to the veteran’s hospital in Oklahoma City July 21.(Photo by Master Sgt. Lee Phillips)

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Warrior of the Week: Capt. Stephen Phillips

Photo by 2nd Lt. Daniel Silk

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I’m from the government and here to help

Betty Comer, Computer Science Corporation computer support section, checks the inventory of old computers being readied for donation to a local public school for use by students in computer training. Old computers are also given to other government and law enforcement agencies.(Photo by Frank McIntyre)

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I’m from the government and here to help

Staff Sgt. John Setar and Mary Loveless, 71st Communications Squadron plans flight, check a refresh list to determine where newly arrived computers will be assigned.(Photo by Frank McIntyre)

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71st MDSS meets AFSO 21 tool challenge

Staff Sgt. Gilbert Martinez, 71st Medical Support Squadron diagnostics imaging journeyman and photo archiving and communications system administrator, reviews one of the digital X-ray images following the conversion to the new PAC system.(Photo illustration by Frank McIntyre)

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Deployment expands FAIP’s duties

First Lt. David Braun, 32nd Flying Training Squadron, talks to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during her June visit to Afghanistan, where he is deployed with Combined Forces Command - Afghanistan at Camp Eggers.(Courtesy photo)

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Warrior of the Week: Master Sgt. Russell Black

Photo by 1st Lt. Nicole Poff

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71st CS receives AETC, Air Force award

Senior Airman Matthew Monroe tests a transmitter after repair in the 71st Operations Support Squadron radar approach control’s radio room.(Photo by Staff Sgt. Amanda Savannah)

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Warrior of the Week: Staff Sgt. Richard White

Photo by 1st Lt. Nicole Poff

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Vance Security Forces

Above: Staff Sgt. Frank Woznick (right) checks the accuracy of .50-caliber machine gun fire by Senior Airman Jeffrey Polzin at Camp Bucca, Iraq. The 586th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron troops were conducting a live-fire test in December. Sergeant Woznick is deployed from Andrews Air Force Base, Md., and Airman Polzin is deployed from Vance AFB, Okla.(Photo by Capt. Michael Johnson)

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Vance Security Forces

Airman 1st Class Jennifer Chambers (left) and Staff Sgt. Richard Dodson, 71st Security Forces Squadron, are seen off by Col. Bryan Benson, 71st Flying Training Wing commander, and family members before they deployed last year.(Photo by Frank McIntyre)

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Vance Security Forces

Maj. Robert Rossi, former 71st Security Forces Squadron commander, and other squadron members remain ready for deployments by training and performing ruck marches such as this three-mile march the morning of June 16. Security forces Airmen are also sent to two weeks of training at Creech AFB, Nev., where they learn patrolling, convoy procedures, unexploded ordinance identification and more before they are deployed.(Photo by Frank McIntyre)

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Warrior of the Week: Senior Airman Danielle Ring

Photo by Alan Ford

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Vance forecaster named top weather civilian in command

Meteorological technician Paul Wilkerson, 71st Operations Support Squadron weather operation flight, checks a radar image for up-to-date weather conditions that could impact the flying mission at Vance.(Photo by Frank McIntyre)

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