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Heritage flight

Heritage aircraft from Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma, fly in a dissimilar formation on the way to the Woodring Regional Airport where Vance members and the Enid community celebrated an 80-year partnership Sept. 17. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Senior Airman Cameron Schultz)
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Chief Master Sergeant David F. Brown

Chief Master Sergeant David F. Brown 71st Operations Group Superintendent
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Schultz

Senior Airman Cameron Schultz prepares for a flight in the backseat of the T-6A Texan II at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma. Schultz is an Air Force photojournalist assigned to the 71st Flying Training Wing Public Affairs Office at Vance. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Schultz

Senior Airman Cameron Schultz is an Air Force photojournalist assigned to the 71st Flying Training Wing Public Affairs Office at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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BRAC crowd

More than 12,000 residents of Enid and Northwestern Oklahoma greeting the Base Realignment and Closure Commission during its June 7, 1995 visit to Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma. (Courtesy photo)
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210902-F-XX123-1001

The Vance Air Force Base honor guard presents the colors during the national anthem Sept. 2 at Vance AFB, Oklahoma, to conclude a 24-hour vigil to remember and honor servicemembers captured in war and those still missing in action. (U.S. Air Force photo by Sarah Bailey)
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210902-F-RV156-3011

Vietnam veteran Bill Cooley speaks at the end of the 24-hour POW/MIA vigil Sept. 2 at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma. Cooley shared his perspective on honoring prisoners of war and remembering those missing in action. (U.S. Air Force photo by Sarah Bailey)
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210902-F-RV156-2002

For a day and a night, uniformed Airmen marched around the Vance Air Force Base track carrying the American flag and the POW/MIA flag in honor of the 81,600 American’s who are missing in action and those who were taken prisoner. (U.S. Air Force photo by Sarah Bailey)
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Eileen Collins

Col. Eileen Collins graduated Undergraduate Pilot Training at Vance AFB in 1978. She was one of the first four women to go through the program and was the first female T-38 instructor pilot at Vance. Collins became the first female astronaut to command a Space Shuttle mission in July 1999. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Eileen Collins

Astronaut Eileen M. Collins, STS-114 mission commander, dons a training version of the full-pressure launch and entry suit prior to the start of a training session in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at the Johnson Space Center in 2002. Collins was a student pilot at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma, in 1978, and the first female T-38 instructor pilot at the base. (NASA photo/ Robert Markowitz)
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Solo pool

2nd Lt. Caitlin Bitting, with Class 22-03 AU, celebrates her first solo flight in the T-6A Texan II with a dunk in the “solo pool,” with the help of her classmates at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Senior Airman Cameron Schultz)
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Solo pool

2nd Lt. Samuel Petrovitch, with Class 22-03 AU, is tossed into the “solo pool” by his classmates after completing his first solo flight in the T-6A Texan II at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Senior Airman Cameron Schultz)
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Chiefs

From left, Chief Master Sgts. Kristy Earls, Jessica Martin and Felisha Whitlow at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma, share their stories, struggles and goals for their Air Force careers. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Senior Airman Cameron Schultz)
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Flying Cadet Baker

Ernest Baker’s son, Ralph Baker, was a flying cadet at Enid Army Air Field, shortly after the field opened in 1941. He is standing next to the Vultee BT-13 “Valiant,” the basic trainer flown by most American pilots during World War II. Ernest Baker sold the family farm to the War Department so Enid Army Air Field could be built. (Courtesy photo)
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Baker Farm

Ernest Baker sold the family farm to the War Department in 1941. The land was used to build a new pilot training base that eventually became Vance Air Force Base. His son, Ralph Baker, learned to fly at the base, completing more than 70 combat missions in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. (Courtesy Photo)
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Chief Pate

Chief Master Sergeant Zachary C. Pate
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CMSgt Pate

Chief Master Sergeant Zachary C. Pate
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Maj Floyd Welsh

Maj. Floyd E. Welsh served on staff at the Enid Army Flying Field in 1943. He later served as the Property Officer at the Pentagon in which he had the ability to save Enid Field from permanent closure. (Courtesy photo)
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REtirement

Maj. Steven Hatcher, right, accepts his Air Force retirement certificate from Lt. Col. Derrick McClain, the 3rd Flying Training Squadron commander, during a ceremony held July 23, at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Lenny Juliano)
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Weather commentary

2nd Lt. Peter Birkrem earned a degree in Meteorology at the University of Wisconsin before entering the Air Force to become a pilot. Growing up on a produce farm outside Milwaukee, Wisconsin, did not prepare him for the extreme diversity of Oklahoma's weather. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Senior Airman Cameron Schultz)
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