• What kind of person are you?

    What kind of person are you? I hope that grabs your attention. What a question like that really means is are you the kind of person I can appreciate, understand, care about? Someone I can value?For those of us in the Air Force, it's simple to add "Airman" in place of "person." For the Air Force, we

  • Leaders not born, but made through training

    How many classes, lectures and books have you seen on the topic of leadership?In my career I couldn't even give you an accurate count, but suffice to say, from basic military training until your retirement ceremony, this topic ranks near the top if not the most coveted traits that we all desire to

  • Lessons learned in Honor Guard

    Being an honor guardsman is a personal experience. To speak of it truly does it no justice. What the audience sees is different from what the individual team members experience.I believe the behind-the-scenes moments of any task are often the most interesting because that's where the audience sees

  • Travis C-5M flies into aviation record books

    In the early morning hours of April 3, a C-5M Super Galaxy aircrew from Travis Air Force Base, California, put the aircraft's capabilities to the test.The eight-person crew, with members of the 60th Air Mobility Wing's 22nd Airlift Squadron and the 349th AMW's 312th AS, accomplished their goal of

  • Family Fun Fest puts focus on Travis' children

    Travis held its third annual Family Fun Fest April 1 at the Airman and Family Readiness Center parking lot to kick off Month of the Military Child, National Child Abuse Prevention Month and National Autism Awareness Month.Caspar Weinberger, former Secretary of Defense, established April as the Month

  • Base honors late POW, WWII veteran

    Airmen from Travis Air Force Base performed full military honors for retired Master Sgt. Robert Foster, a World War II veteran and former prisoner of war March 31 during a memorial service at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery in Dixon, California.Foster died at the age of 92 on March 18 due to

  • Sergeant helps others in India

    "From across the room, I watched a man, who had lost his left foot, crawl to the water station," said Staff Sgt. Alexander Cedillo from Travis Air Force Base, California. "He could've asked me to get it for him but he didn't. Instead, with great difficulty, he made it back to his bed and then handed

  • Breaking dawn: Travis aims for record books with overnight C-5M flight

    While many in the Travis Air Force Base, California, community slept April 3, one of the base's C-5M Super Galaxy aircraft was scheduled to soar into the record books.The C-5M, lead by a crew of eight Airmen pooled from the 60th Air Mobility Wing's 22nd Airlift Squadron and the 349th AMW's 312th AS,

  • Smash Mouth to play at Travis

    San Jose-based pop rock group Smash Mouth will headline a single-day music festival April 17 at Travis Air Force Base, California.The Bear-Powered Music Festival takes place from April 17 at the Travis dorm soccer field area. It is free for all Department of Defense ID cardholders.Additional

  • Stop poisoning well with how things were

    At a recent professional enhancement seminar, enlisted leaders were asked to relay concerns to both our new installation commander and our command chief. Each of these Airmen had valid questions, most of which revolved around financial and staffing constraints and some were concerned about Travis