Sept. 27, 2023 Team Vance honors POW/MIA Recognition Day with 24-hour ruck march “The POW flag did not stop moving for the whole 24 hours,” said Senior Airman Ashaley Mejia, organizer of the Team Vance ruck march around the base track, in honor of National POW/MIA Recognition Day, Sept. 15.
Sept. 19, 2023 Maintainer completes a half-century keeping aircraft in the sky at Vance Terry Long, an Enid native and the Amentum branch manager for the T-6A Texan II, retired Sept. 8, after 50 years of maintaining aircraft at Vance.
Sept. 19, 2023 Wings awarded to 25 graduates of Undergraduate Pilot Training Class 23-14 Twenty-five students in Undergraduate Pilot Training Class 23-14 received their wings during a ceremony held Sept. 15 at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
Aug. 29, 2023 Patricia White -- Vance’s first black female pilot-training graduate United Airlines pilot Patricia White, was the first black female to graduate pilot training at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma, and the first black female Air Force Academy graduate to complete pilot training.
Aug. 18, 2023 Balancing Faith and Academia: Lt. Col. Duane McCrory’s Story Balancing Faith and Academia: Lt. Col. Duane McCrory’s Story