• Lead & follow with compassion, concern and competence

    Actions speak louder than words, a statement many of us have heard throughout our lifetime. Have you ever thought about what it means? Your words as well as your actions as a leader and follower illustrate to others the type of person you are.

  • Travis spouse wins Air Force-level award

    For Morgan Noller, change began with a single e-mail. In her inbox was an opportunity to get involved with the Travis Officers’ Spouses Club at Travis Air Force Base, where she and her husband, Capt. Steven Noller, 21st Airlift Squadron pilot, moved in 2015.

  • Guevara and medical center 30 years older

    There probably isn’t a door or square-inch of space that Felix Guevara has not touched inside the 808,000 square-foot David Grant USAF Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base during the past 30 years. On weekdays, Guevara begins his shift at 2 a.m. repairing, replacing and repainting sheet rock

  • Travis firefighter earns hockey MVP title

    Staff Sgt. Justin Rico, 60th Civil Engineer Squadron fire emergency services training NCO in charge, wears several hats; he’s a husband, a father, an Airman, a firefighter and now an MVP. The Travis Airman was recognized as the most valuable player in the Armed Services Hockey Association Las Vegas

  • Wishing you a happy, healthy eating season

    With the holidays around the corner, there is bound to be an abundance of delicious foods at parties, family dinners and other gatherings. However, the merriment can quickly change to misery if food makes you or others ill.

  • 2019 Air Show 'Thunder Over the Bay' March 30 & 31

    Travis has scheduled the 2019 air show titled “Thunder over the Bay” for March 30-31. Headlined by the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, the two-day event will be free and open to the public. The event theme is Honoring Hometown Heroes and will recognize admirable individuals and groups, both military

  • Bread-fed redemption: DFAC Airman uses food to bring peers together

    By outward appearances, the dining facility at Travis Air Force Base is run-of-the-mill. So ordinary, in fact, that you could easily be lulled into the idea that nothing special occurred there, but according to Senior Airman Oscar Callejas, 60th Force Support Squadron food service shift worker,

  • Leadership is an art and science

    When I came into the Air Force, I had amassed 160 semester hours of college credit. Of the 160 hours, only three were in humanities and arts. The majority of my time in college was spent focused on what now is called STEM, science, technology, engineering and math. It took a mentor to set me on the