01_Wing_Mission_Brief.pdf

Colonel John J. Menozzi Vice Commander

Mission Brief

Vision An unrivaled, professional and fit team prepared to fly, fight, and win.

Mission To develop professional Airmen, deliver world-class US & Allied pilots and deploy combat ready warriors.

Enid Air Installation

- Nov 18, 1941

Nine days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the first class of aviation cadets arrives

Presenter Presentation Notes The federal government signed a lease for the land with the City of Enid at a price of $1 a year with an option to renew for 25 years.

The $4.4 million construction project officially began on 16 August 1941. By November 18, 1941, construction was nearing completion. On the 29th of November, Major Dorr and his staff received 825 permanently assigned personnel.

Just eight days after the declaration of war, on December 16, 1941, the 64 members of class 42-D arrived. Much of the facility was still not complete, but the field was operational, and quarters were complete enough to use.

On November 1, 1972, to preserve the lineage and honors of World War II combat units, ATC inactivated the 3575th Pilot Training Wing and activated the 71st Flying Training Wing.

9 July 1949 Enid Air Force Base becomes Vance Air Force Base. Throughout the 1950s Vance conducted specialized training such as Basic Instructor School, Engine Conditioning Course for Pilots, Survival Swimming School, Clerk-Typist School, Organization Supply School, Airmen's Management School, and a Passive Defense Course.

The 71st had a long and storied history. Established originally on 10 August 1948 at the 71st Tactical Reconnaissance Wing. It was inactivated following the war but saw redesignation in 1954 as the 71st Strategic Reconnaissance Wing in the Korean War. It would go through several more redesignations before being activated again at Vance AFB.

In 1949, the base was renamed for Enid native and Medal of Honor recipient Lt Col Leon

Robert Vance, Jr.

Conducted Multi-Engine Pilot Training until the beginning of Undergraduate Pilot Training on 13 March 1961

On July 9, 1949, Enid AFB was renamed Vance AFB in Honor of Lt. Col. Leon Robert Vance Jr. Vance, who grew up in Enid, and was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. He distinguished himself by conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty on June 5, 1944.

On that day he led a heavy bombardment group over Wimereaux, France. While approaching the target, his B-24 Liberator was seriously damaged by anti-aircraft fire. Three engines went out, the pilot was killed, and Vance’s right foot was nearly severed. In spite of his injury he led the formation over the target and bombed it successfully. He then made it to the English coast and ordered the crew to bail out. He ditched his aircraft in the English channel and was pinned in the plane, but an explosion freed him from the wreckage. He was picked up an hour later by an air-sea rescue craft and transported to England for treatment. What remained of his right foot had to be amputated.

On 26 July 1944, Lt Col Vance was transported out of England on a medical evacuation plane. The plane disappeared between Iceland and Newfoundland. He was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. On 9 July 1949, Enid Air Base was renamed Vance Air Force Base.

Advanced Multi-Engine pilot training for advanced students was conducted at Vance AFB throughout and post WWII. This training consisted of a flying screening process conducted by contracted flying schools, then AT-6 transition training and TB-25 multi-engine training. Advanced Multi-Engine pilot training was discontinued in January 1958 as the TB-25 was phased out. The T-33 Trojan had been introduced to the base two years prior, in 1956, and the wing’s primary mission became training single-engine pilots with the AT-6 and T-33 aircrafts.

In 1960 the Contracted Flying Schools; utilizing PT-17, PT-19, and PT-22 aircrafts; had ceased operations. This led military basic pilot training bases to convert to a consolidated pilot training program.

In March 1961 military basic pilot training bases converted to a consolidated pilot training program. Vance AFB implemented Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT) on 13 March 1961.

The T-37 Tweet was put into full operational use when Class 62-F entered preflight training as the first UPT class in the Air Force – pioneered here at Vance AFB – and the first to train in the T-37. This started the era where classes consisted of preflight training, primary training in the T-37, and basic training in the T-33 Trojan. Since all training was accomplished at Vance, students now stayed in one place for their pilot training.

First T-38 “Talon” - April 1963 First T-1 “Jayhawk”- December 1994

First T-6A “Texan II” - March 2005

Since inception, Vance AFB has awarded over

32,000 sets of pilot wings http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:United_States_Air_Force_Pilot_Badge.svg&page=1

• Pilots Graduated:

• Sorties Flown:

• Hours Flying:

• Class ‘A’ Mishaps:

49,455

73,520

None!

Deliver

International Students:

22 in training 15 graduates

• Nigeria

• Saudi Arabia

• Singapore

• Kuwait

• Kenya

• Turkey

• Japan

Phase I Preflight

Phase II Primary (T-6)

Phase III Advanced

(T-1)

Phase III Advanced

(T-38)

*FY14 Data

Phase III Advanced

(Helo)

Presenter Presentation Notes UPDATED: 1 Oct 14 POC: Sorties Flown and Hours = OSS/OSOS x7864 Pilots trained = Registrar x6098 POC: Int’l Studs = 71 STUS/IMSO x6353

Deploy

• 71 Vance Personnel Deployed in FY 14

• 11 Countries around the world

• 22 Currently Deployed

Updated 6 Sep 14 POC: David Henry

Upper Left: Master Sgt. Jason Trickey, 71st Operations Support Squadron, was deployed to Iraq in 2013.

Lower Left: Capt. Curtis “Meat” Holtman, an instructor pilot with the 3rd Flying Training Squadron, was deployed to Amman, Jordan, as the AFCENT Liasion Officer to the US Embassy of Jordan. “Due to the extensive working relations we had with the Royal Jordanian Air Force, and the work we were accomplishing as a direct link between their senior officers and AFCENT senior leaders, we were personally invited by the Director of the Royal Falcons to spend a weekend with their team,” said Holtman. “We were given an incentive flight in their aircraft during a show practice as a thank you for the work we had accomplished with various exercises in the region.”

Right: Capt. Dave Owen, Capt. Joel Bragg, Capt. Bill Lohan, Maj. Aaron Madison and Capt. Joel Halpert, all Vance instructor pilots stand in front of a Cessna C-208 in Shindand, Afghanistan. The team members were Cessna C-208 Air Advisors.

71 FTW

Vice Wing

Commander Col John Menozzi

71 FTW

Wing

Commander Col Clark Quinn

71 FTW

Command Chief Master Sergeant CMSgt Peter Speen

PAE

Mr. John Harris

71st Operations

Group Col John Cinnamon

71st Mission Support

Group Col Christopher Daniels

71st Medical Group

Col David Chiesa

Vacant

Numbers come from Wing Population report S:\Public\Wing Pop Rpt Contractor: Tom Patton For numbers on Fam Members and Retirees, x6770.

Updated 2 Aug 10

Civ 5%

Contractor 17%

Enlisted 6%

Students 12%

Officer 6%

Retirees 35%

Fam Members

19%

Sales

Payroll $162.9M

Indirect Impact $22.2M

Top Line Annual Impact $275M

Payroll

• 2,635 Military, Government service, Non-appropriated Fund Civilians, and Contract Civilians

Expenditures

• Construction

• Operations and Maintenance

• Services

• Materials, Equipment, Supplies

Indirect Impact

• Estimated 933 local jobs

Expenditures $90.1M

Col John Cinnamon

82 17

AD Per Party Enlisted Civilian Reservist Maritime Student 5th FTS USAFR

T-1A Advanced Phase

Airlift/Tanker Track Select

T-6A Primary Phase

Trainer

T-38C Advanced Phase

Fighter/ Bomber

Track Select

Ops Support

WX

ATC

Airfield Mgmt Records Mgmt Wg Programing

Airspace

Admin Pre-Flight Phase

Academics Awaiting Trng

IFS

Class CCs

Sim Instructors

Presenter Presentation Notes Updated 18 Aug 14 (source Apr ‘14 pop report)

*Areas in orange are contracted

Contractors 61% Enlisted 24%

Civilian 13%

Officer 2%

Col Christopher Daniels

Force Support Manpower Education Training Family Support Professional Development Personnel Services

Security Forces Law Enforcement Security Resource Protection Antiterrorism/ Force Protection Entry Control

Contracting Contract admin GPC Mgmt

Communications Network Management Information Protection Communication and Information Maintenance

Logistics Readiness Civil Eng Supply Fuels Transportation

Officer 19%

Enlisted 49%

Contractors 17%

Civilian 15%

Medical Operations Flight Medicine Family Practice Pediatrics Dental Optometry Immunizations Mental Health Radiology Public Health

HAWC

Medical Support Pharmacy Laboratory Resource Management Medical Readiness Facility Management Logistics Patient Admin

TRICARE

Col David Chiesa

Updated 2 Aug 10

PRI-DJI

10%

PAE

90%

PAE/PRI-DJI

Aircraft Maintenance (MX) Supply & Procurement Civil Engineering Fire Dept Transportation/Vehicle MX

MWR

Lodging Library Network Computer System Custodial Airfield Management Life Support Child Development Center Youth Center Custodial Transportation Supply Environmental Fuels – Defense Logistics Agency

Privatized housing Oct ’07-Hunt Properties 242 units - 30 new &158 newly renovated

Fuel Cell Maintenance Hangar compl ‘09 Armed Forces Reserve Center compl ’10 Control Tower (under construction) FY13 EOY – executed 11 projects $5.6M FY14 EOY – poised to ex 17 proj $4.1M FY15 Repair Outside Rwy – $34M, under design

Presenter Presentation Notes 242 Homes – 158 renovated 1960s era Capehart homes (renovated in ‘07)

Fuel Cell Maintenance Hangar replaced hangar built in 1980 with no fire suppression or other safety features

Armed Forces Reserve Center BRAC project constructed 60K+ sf Admin bldg and 9,600 sf Vehicle Mx bldg https://vance.pinnaclefamilyhousing.com/rebuilding/images/fgo/5.jpg

Situation/Impact

• Supports 75,000 aircraft ops / year

• The runway concrete condition is from unsatisfactory to degraded

• The majority of taxiways leading to the outside runway are considered degraded to unsatisfactory

• Risk of reduced aircraft operations

• Scope: 263,097 SY

Concrete Facility Age: 54 yrs

Facility Condition + 2 Yrs Curr.

Asphalt Facility Age: 12 yrs

FOD Producing Concrete Runway Shattered Slab

Typical Multiple Cracking of Asphalt Runway Portion

Presenter Presentation Notes FY15 Airfield Infrastructure program (no longer in MILCON program) This project consists of removal and replacement of most taxiway pavements from the center runway to the outside runway along with concrete slab replacement and a mill and overlay of the center asphalt portion on the outside runway.

This runway is an integral part of the flying training mission at Vance AFB, with approximately 75,000 aircraft operations annually.

Training Campus Complex ($19.0M) Community Spt & Professional Dev Ctr ($15.6M) Lodging ($13.0M) Student Officer Dormitories ($26.2M) Physical Fitness/HAWC ($23.4M) Flightline Area Development Plan ($76M)

Maintenance Hangars ($3.1M)

Renovate Squadron Areas

Community Support Center

Presenter Presentation Notes Training Campus Complex: Significantly enlarge Bldg 172 (former IFF) and renovate (including new HVAC and electrical) for other 3 flying squadron buildings

Community Support & Professional Development Center: consolidates Professional Development Center (PDC) and First Term Airmen Center (FTAC) (currently in SE bldg), Education Center w/classrooms, and Library (which are in WWII bldg)

Lodging: Constructs new Lodging facility and demolishes existing Cherokee Lodge.

Student Officer Dorms: 2 separate projects to construct additional 50-person officer dormitories to remedy the deficit we have in Unaccompanied Officer Quarters

ADAL Physical Fitness/HAWC: Add to and alter the existing Bradley Fitness and Sport Center. The renovation will include work to the administration, group exercise, locker rooms and fitness equipment spaces. The addition will create additional space for locker rooms, gymnasium, racquetball courts, indoor running track, indoor/outdoor fitness pool, support and equipment spaces.

Team Vance & Enid residents Partners in community activities Model for military/community relations $275M Total Economic Impact on Community

Enlisted Appreciation Night A 44-year tradition

2008 Partners in the Sky Open House and Airshow

Enid is the 2014 Winner of AETC Altus

Trophy

Enid citizens showing their support for Vance during the 1995 BRAC

On June 7, 1995, four members of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission conducted a site survey at Vance. 12,300 area residents gathered to show their support for Vance. A week later in Fort Worth Texas, over 1,200 Enid citizens gathered outside the BRAC commission meeting to show their support again. The commission ultimately voted to close Reese AFB.