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Title	[Jane Helms Vance's promotion to Captain, 1969]
Date	1969-11-25
Subject headings	United States. Air Force Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Era	Vietnam Era (1964-1974) Post-Vietnam, Panama, Grenada (1975-1989)
Service branch	Air Force
Item description	Jane Helms Vance with her parents, Eloise Helms and James Luther Helms, during her promotion to Captain, November 25, 1969.
Veteran's name	Vance, Jane Helms
Veteran's biography	"Jane H. Vance (b. 1944), of Kinston, North Carolina, worked with computers for the United States Air Force from 1966-1987. Vance grew up in Wayne County where her father, James Luther Helms, was a contractor and her mother, Eloise Taylor Helms, was a homemaker. Vance attended the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (later the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) from 1962-1966 where she graduated with a BA in Geography. Vance later went on to St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas where she graduated in 1977 with a Master of Science degree in Systems Management. Vance enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in Richmond, Virginia before being sent to Medina Annex at the Lackland Air Force Base near San Antonio, Texas. She also served in Barksdale AFB in Shreveport, Louisiania from 1967-1968; Tan Son Nhut AFB in Vietnam from 1968 - May, 1969, with the Data Automation office; Randolph AFB, in Texas from May 1969 - May 1973; Langley AFB, in Texas from May 1973 - May 1974; a second tour at Randolph AFB from May, 1974 - May, 1979; the Pentagon, near Arlington, Virginia and Andrews AFB, in Maryland near Washington, DC with the National Guard Bureau from February 1979 - March 1984 as an Air National Guard (ANG) Automated Plans and Requirements Officer. Vance's final assignment was a return to Randolph AFB from March 1984 to November 1987, when she retired with the rank of Major. "
Type	Image
Original format	photographs
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	WV0581 Jane Helms Vance Papers
Collection summary	April 2015 oral history interview, scanned items
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0581.6.019
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
OCLC number	914300672

[Jane Helms Vance's promotion to Captain, 1969]

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