• Partnerships keep DGMC professionals primed for deployments

    At a moment’s notice, Air Force doctors, surgeons, nurses and medical technicians at Travis Air Force Base, California, must be primed and ready to deploy anywhere in the world to care for Airmen injured during combat operations. So, how do these highly trained professionals at the David Grant USAF

  • Service before self vs. service before family

    On the night of Dec. 24, 2004, I returned to Yokota Air Base, Japan, from a four-month deployment.Two days later, a 9.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the western coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. The following day, my phone rang and on the other line was my squadron superintendent notifying me

  • Dense planetary core stifles epic changes

    My planetary analogy provides us all an opportunity to continuously evaluate our inherent human condition to resist change. As an experienced Air Force officer and commander, I find myself naturally “gravitating” back towards how I accomplished tasks as a young officer. Granted, some of those

  • Travis Exchange, commissary honor Vietnam veterans

    In partnership with the United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration, the Army and Air Force Exchange Service and Defense Commissary Agency at Travis Air Force Base, California, will honor all who served during the Vietnam War with free commemorative lapel pins marking the war’s 50th

  • Travis AFB celebrates Piggy Bank Pageant participants

    The Airman and Family Readiness Center, in partnership with Friends of Family Services, held the Piggy Bank Pageant in conjunction with Military Saves Week to encourage military children to set money goals and begin saving.

  • DGMC and NorthBay team save patient’s life

    Evelyn Staley remembers very little about the condition that landed her in the David Grant USAF Medical Center emergency room at Travis Air Force Base, California, Dec. 15, 2017.

  • Travis hosts Spark Innovation Summit

    Representatives from each major command in the U.S. Air Force met March 5-7 at Travis Air Force Base, California, for an innovation summit focusing on the implementation of the AFWERX program at various bases across the Air Force.