• Golden Knights descend on FHS

    The U.S. Army Golden Knights parachute team perform skydiving maneuvers May 4 at Fairfield High School in Fairfield, Calif. The Golden Knights were in Northern California for the "Wings Over Solano" Air Show May 6-7 at Travis Air Force Base. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Senior Airman Amber Carter)

  • AMC maintainers combine skills, repair grounded C-5M at Ramstein

    Normally when a C-5M Galaxy is off the ground, it is soaring thousands of feet above the world. For one particular C-5 flying out of Travis Air Force Base, Calif., that was not the case when a malfunctioning landing gear caused it to be raised only a few feet above the ground inside a hangar.

  • Active, Reserve EOD teams support NORCAL communities

    Their name brings to mind the stories out of Hollywood blockbusters. Visions of deafening explosions and gun shots spin through the mind as one visualizes a service member crouching over a device, daring the sweat dripping from his forehead not to fall, praying he chooses the right wire to pull.

  • Youth center director to attend Harvard Leadership Summit

    For 26 years Carrie Basaca, 60th Force Support Squadron Travis Youth Center director, has worked with youth from the Philippines to the United States. She started teaching in 1991 and has served in one way or another as a teacher of children in six countries.

  • Attitude is everything

    There is nothing more exhilarating than being around people who exude a positive attitude. In life, attitude is everything. It is the lens through which you see the world. It affects the actions you take based on past experiences and now interpret in current situations. It governs the way you

  • To effectively lead, we must trust and empower

    Throughout our military careers, whether long or short, we’ve all seen good and bad examples of leadership. One key attribute found in most effective leaders is they implicitly trust their people and they avoid “getting into the weeds” by working their subordinates' tasks for them.

  • Dual-military couple values family, service

    The Leidholms are just like any ordinary young family. They get up early each day of the week to deal with the happy chaos of getting themselves ready for work, and preparing their two small daughters for the day. Dad and mom tag-team – he changes the baby’s diaper, makes sure the 3-and-a-half year

  • Against the odds: A cancer survivor’s journey back to the cockpit

    “Why are you here?”The question came from Col. Corwin Pauly, 60th Air Mobility Wing vice commander at Travis Air Force Base, California. It was June 2015, and he had just arrived at Travis as the incoming vice commander. One of the first Airmen he met was Maj. Matt Bartomeo, a C-5M Super Galaxy

  • Household Universal Waste and what to do with it

    Universal Waste is a general descriptive term used to describe wastes that are generated by a large, diverse population. The category of Universal Waste was created in the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s hazardous waste regulations to streamline the hazardous waste management