Vance Air Force Base has opened a new, temporary operations building to house the 33rd Flying Training Squadron and give the base more room to meet its mandate to increase pilot output.

Enid native Jim Bray’s art will decorate the Marshall Building on the Northern Oklahoma College Enid campus through June 22.

Douglas Raaberg, a retired Air Force major general and former commander of the 71st Flying Training Wing at Vance Air Force Base, has been named the new executive vice president of the Air Force Association.

ENID, Okla. — A pair of Enid natives are preparing for a five-week, nine-country expedition through Europe to create an educational and interactive TV series tailor-made for Enid Public Schools students.

Vance Air Force Base found no notable discrepancies in its 242 housing units, officials said Monday, after wrapping up a review mandated for all bases by the Secretary of the Air Force last month in the wake of congressional testimony detailing health and safety concerns at some privatized military housing developments.

Major Kinsley Jordan, 71st Flying Training Wing Chief of Innovation, recently was recognized by the wing for his team’s efforts to use commercially-available technology to streamline training at the base.

"It is time to stick our chests out and tell everyone we are the best at what we do." — Col. Corey Simmons, commander of the 71st Flying Training Wing

DEL RIO, Texas — The vice wing commander of the 71st Flying Training Wing at Vance Air Force Base has been named to head the 47th Flying Training Wing at Laughlin Air Force Base after three commanders at the Texas base were relieved of their duties.

VANCE AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. — Student pilots and their instructors at Vance Air Force Base had a chance to hear the realities of war Monday, thanks to a visit by a veteran bomber pilot from World War II.

Volunteers from Vance Air Force Base and local businesses, churches and civic groups have purchased and wrapped enough gifts to brighten the Christmas holiday for more than 230 local children.

VANCE AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. — Officials with the 71st Flying Training Wing confirmed Sunday they are conducting a limited number of T-6 Texan II test flights as part of an ongoing investigation into possible issues with the aircraft's in-flight oxygen system.

Hypoxia is a condition in which the body is not receiving sufficient oxygen. 

The union representing contract workers at Vance Air Force Base doesn’t expect the sale of Vertex Aerospace to affect jobs under the current contract.

The contractor that conducts flight line operations at Vance Air Force Base is up for sale, company officials confirmed Tuesday.

Col. Charles Clark “Sonny” Kegelman, for whom Kegelman Air Force Auxiliary Field is named, was not awarded a Medal of Honor and is not a member of the Oklahoma Military Hall of Fame, but it wasn’t for lack of trying.

"It’s not just critical to Vance, it’s very critical to the bigger picture and the bigger Air Force, that we have those locations out there that supplement our training.” 

Retired Lt. Col. William R. Schwertfeger, himself a former prisoner of war in North Vietnam, remembered all those who have still not come home Friday afternoon during the POW/MIA Recognition Day retreat at Vance Air Force Base.

Mike Cooper, city of Enid military liaison, reported on possible upcoming construction projects, like a consolidated flying squadron operations facility and the replacement of the base's middle runway.

Before Col. Lee Gentile Jr. came to Vance Air Force Base to become vice commander of the 71st Flying Training Wing, he was director of the Air Force element at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.

The report revealed Woodring pumps $29.2 million into the local economy every year, while the annual economic impact of Vance Air Force Base is $925 million.

ENID, Okla. — Montana is known as Big Sky Country, but the skies over Oklahoma are plenty spacious in their own right.

A 46-year-old Enid woman was injured in a two-vehicle collision downtown Tuesday afternoon.