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ENID, Okla. – The Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center will kick-off the 2010 Brown Bag Lecture Series with a presentation by Adriane Askins Neidinger, 71st Flying Training Wing Historian at Vance Air Force Base. The program will take place at noon on January 27 in the Humphrey Heritage Village Church.

Neidinger will discuss the role of a historian in the military and the history of Vance Air Force Base. Neidinger’s background is in archaeology and history. She has extensive work experience in underwater archaeology and is a former member of the National Park of Service’s Submerged Cultural Resources Unit. As a member of that unit, she participated in multiple archaeological dives including dives at the site of the U.S.S. Arizona at Pearl Harbor. She has also worked on several historical digs including work on a prehistoric site in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Neidinger became the 71st Flying Training Wing Historian at Vance Air Force Base in March, 2009. The base, which hosts the 71st Flying Training Wing Unit, was completed in November 1941, and trains pilots for the United States Air Force, Navy, Marine Corp and Allies. To date, over 31,000 aviators have completed the training and earned their wings.

The Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center is located at 507 S. 4th Street in Enid, Oklahoma. For additional information on this or other CSRHC programs, please call the Heritage Center at 580-237-1907.