An Energy Conservation Celebration was held Wednesday at Vance for base personnel in honor of a command-wide energy-saving competition. (Staff Photo by Candice Budgick)
Jeff Hume, chief operating officer of Continental Resources, the Enid-based independent oil and gas exploration and production company, has a history with Vance Air Force Base.
As a boy growing up in Enid he and his friend, the son of an airman, spent a lot of time in the old non-commissioned officer’s pool, undoubtedly expending a great deal of energy.
“He kept us busy out here,” said Hume of his pal’s dad.
Hume returned to Vance Wednesday to discuss energy, as he was featured speaker at the base Energy Conservation Celebration.
During his speech the sounds of excited children, brimming with energy of their own, filled the Vance fitness center gym as they waited for the free food, games and giveaways associated with the celebration.
The celebration marked the end of the base’s energy-saving campaign. read more...
Vanessa Pendley carefully applies camouflage face paint in the mirror at Camp Liberty in Hangar 170, the “deployment” site for the Operation KIDS event, Aug. 6 at Vance. The event was a hands-on activity for children of military families to learn about their parents’ deployment process. (U.S. Air Force photo by Lisa Hoth)
The Air Force will observe Women’s Equality Day Wednesday.
On this particular day, all Air Force members are reminded of the important role women play not only in the military but in today’s society. read more...
Once again summer is ending and everyone is getting in their last-minute summer fun. Families and friends are enjoying barbecues and road trips. read more...
If asked what the No. 1 reason for any success I have achieved in my career is, I would answer without hesitation — my mentors.
While they did not give me a free ticket to promotion or an inside avenue to assignments, they were pivotal in providing me the inspiration, vector and characteristics to harness the opportunities I would face in my Air Force career.
They are my trusted guides, the source of my vision and role models who help me through the toughest challenges.
I was sitting in front the computer just the other day, wading through the e-mail that had piled up during my leave, when the phone rang. read more...
The folks in QAV have a big job — to find a way to provide standardized training and a standardized approach to quality assurance and contract compliance. read more...
The Fitness Center is offering a Biggest Loser follow-up to see who has lost additional weight or maintained their weight since the final weigh-in April 10. read more...
By now you have heard about the government’s new cash for clunkers program. It is a program meant to encourage consumers to trade in older less fuel-efficient vehicles by providing a credit of up to $4,500. read more...
LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFNS) — Lackland Air Force Base officials will support the NASA space program by allowing the space shuttle to stopover here while on its ferry ride home if the shuttle does not land at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. read more...
Military personnel stationed at Luke Air Force Base outside Phoenix sit in a business class offered on the base as part of Wayland’s campus in Phoenix. (Photo provided)
PLAINVIEW, Texas — Wayland Baptist University has been recognized in two publications for its work with and attitude toward military service personnel.
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RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas — Air Education and Training Command launched into social networking recently with the debut of a fan page on Facebook allowing users to follow the command’s latest news and activities. read more...
ROYAL AIR FORCE LAKENHEATH, England (AFNS) — Of the 124,913 American war-dead buried overseas, 3,812 are at the Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, less than a 45-minute drive from here. read more...
FORT LEE, Va. — Have you ever made a quick stop at a local supercenter to “pick up a few things” only to look in bewilderment from your purchase to the register receipt and realize you would have saved more had you purchased these items at the commissary?
Then you wonder, “How is it that I save so much more at the commissary?”
“As the provider of the military’s most valued non-pay benefit, DeCA is mandated by the Department of Defense to ensure commissary patrons receive no less than 30 percent savings when they shop the commissary,” said Defense Commissary Agency Director and CEO Philip E. read more...
IMAGINE THAT — A financial executive (Eddie Murphy) who can’t stop his career’s downward spiral is invited into his daughter’s imaginary world, where solutions to his problems await. read more...
WASHINGTON (AFNS) — The Air National Guard should remain in the unmanned aircraft systems business now and in the future, the chairman of the service’s UAS weapons system council said Monday. read more...
An Air Force MQ-9 Reaper from the 62nd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron takes off March 13 from Kandahar Air Base, Afghanistan, for a mission in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. James L. Harper Jr.)
RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas — The U.S. Air Force boasts more than 130 enlisted career fields and on Monday it officially welcomed one more as the first class of 10 enlisted Unmanned Aircraft System sensor operators began their technical school. read more...
Leonardo’s Discovery Warehouse, 200 E. Maple, is open 10 a.m. read more...
Graduates honored Five members of Joint Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training Class 09-13 were honored during the class graduation banquet Aug. 14 at Vance Air Force Base. 1st Lt. Stephen Del Bagno, in the T-38 track, was named the T-38 distinguished graduate and received the Air Education and Training Command Commander’s Trophy and flying training award. Del Bagno has been assigned to fly the F-22 at Tyndall AFB, Fla. (Photo provided)
Graduates honored Five members of Joint Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training Class 09-13 were honored during the class graduation banquet Aug. 14 at Vance Air Force Base, 1st Lt. Charles Davis IV, in the T-1 track, was named a T-1 distinguished graduate and was awarded the AETC Commander’s Trophy and the flying training award. Davis will next fly the C-17 at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. (Photo provided)
Graduates honored Five members of Joint Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training Class 09-13 were honored during the class graduation banquet Aug. 14 at Vance Air Force Base. 2nd Lt. Christopher Carey, in the T-1 track, was named a T-1 distinguished graduate. Carey will fly the C-17 at McChord AFB, Wash.
Graduates honored Five members of Joint Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training Class 09-13 were honored during the class graduation banquet Aug. 14 at Vance Air Force Base. 1st Lt. Kevin Bunten received the T-38 academic excellence award, as well as the leadership award. He will return to Vance as a T-6 First Assignment Instructor Pilot.
Graduates honored Five members of Joint Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training Class 09-13 were honored during the class graduation banquet Aug. 14 at Vance Air Force Base. 1st Lt. Michael Povilaitis earned the T-1 academic excellence award, as well as the leadership award. He will fly the C-17 at Charleston AFB, S.C.
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