• Time as MTL helps shape sergeant for job in JA

    Every Airman has their own reason for joining the Air Force and each Airman takes a different path after joining the military. Some stay in the same career field and some cross train to a new one. Each path is as unique as each person wearing the uniform.Staff Sgt. Chester Rafan, 60th Air Mobility

  • Military justice: JAGs help get it right

    “Military Justice is job one,” has been a familiar saying in the Air Force Judge Advocate General’s Corps for as long as I can remember, and it remains one of the guiding principles of our Corps today.

  • Discover what motivates your Airmen

    This Sunday marks the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, carried out by Al-Qaeda, against the United States. The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people from over 90 nations. Although military recruitment did not overwhelmingly surge in the years following 9/11, ask any Airman, Soldier,

  • 821st CRSS stands ready to work at all hours

    The men and women of the 821st Contingency Response Support Squadron, or CRSS, stand ready 24/7/365, on a 12-hour deployment notice, to support Air Mobility Command, the Air Force and United States Transportation Command with highly qualified and versatile contingency response Airmen.

  • Airman spends life building planes

    When someone explains their love for aircraft, you expect to hear stories of their first experience of an F-22 Raptor roaring down the runway or an A-10 Thunderbolt screeching through the sky, not an F-4 Phantom soaring through the air with a tight grasp of the hand and the smacking of the lips to

  • Haley heads programs to help Travis hearts, minds

    If a program at Travis Air Force Base, California, is helping people, Emily Haley probably has a hand in it or knows about it.Haley, 60th Air Mobility Wing community support coordinator, works with so many intertwining base agencies that it’s difficult to know where one ends and another begins.

  • Protocol: Little office with big mission

    If you have ever attended a formal Air Force event, such as a promotion ceremony or an induction ceremony, you may have noticed how an ordinary room can be changed into a well-decorated, perfectly put together space for a special occasion.The Protocol office at Travis Air Force Base, California, is

  • Celebrating gold medal team at Travis

    Less than two weeks ago, millions watched the final events and closing ceremony of the XXXI Olympiad in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The dominating performance of the athletes representing Team USA was remarkable but also what the American public expects. As I reflected on the athletic success of Team

  • Family, friends can stand as heroes to us all

    More than 70 years ago, my hero was born. He was a decorated combat veteran of World War II with four bronze stars and a purple heart, and he was my dad.My No. 1 mentor built 500-pound bombs to support my father, and the other war heroes; she was my mom.Both of them were not just my parents, but my