• Things change – enjoy it

    I had a strange feeling riding my bicycle to work this morning. Memories flooded my mind of 18 years ago when I first rode my bike down Cannon Drive in Travis base housing. Of course, back then I was 14 years old and was riding my bike to a friend's house, not to work. Things change. My family moved

  • Don’t Let Winter Storage Wreck Springtime Fun

    As we motorcycle riders prepare for the upcoming months of winter, I would like to share a short story that could have ended in a different, tragic way. Last summer, I was working the 2 p.m. to 1 a.m. shift as a police officer for a large city in Alabama. After getting ready for work, I got onto my

  • Surgical squadron remains on the cutting edge

    Both domestically and overseas in hostile war zones, 60th Surgical Operations Squadron personnel deliver general surgery, neurosurgery, urology, orthopedic, ophthalmology, obstetrics and gynecological health services for more than 500,000 Department of Defense and Department of Veteran Affairs

  • 9/11 pushes firefighter out of limbo

    "I was at home asleep the morning of 9/11," said Staff Sgt. Sherice Lovato, 60th Civil Engineer Squadron firefighter. "I was still in limbo of whether or not I wanted to join the military. When I woke up I started down the hallway to find my mom sitting up in her bed, eyes glossy and glued to the

  • Life takes on new meaning for researcher after 9/11

    It was a normal day like any other for Jeanette Watterson, at the time an academic research scientist, who was getting ready for work when the news of an airplane crashing into the World Trade Center came on the TV. Now a major in the Air Force, Watterson said 9/11 was a wakeup call for her."Nothing

  • Life takes on new meaning for researcher after 9/11

    It was a normal day like any other for Jeanette Watterson, at the time an academic research scientist, who was getting ready for work when the news of an airplane crashing into the World Trade Center came on the TV. Now a major in the Air Force, Watterson said 9/11 was a wakeup call for her."Nothing

  • 9/11 reality sunk in, high schooler stepped up

    Sitting in a dentist office on Sept. 11, 2001, Senior Airman James Crosby, then a high school student, remembers hearing his mom complain that her credit card was not going through. After that, the footage of the World Trade Center attacks played on the waiting room television."I remember thinking,

  • 9/11 inspired medical technician to enlist

    He was on his way to class during his freshman year in high school on Sept. 11, 2001, when planes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington and a field in Shanksville, Pa. It wasn't until eight hours later, when his parents picked him up from school, that Senior

  • A Day of Service

    In 2009, Congress designated September 11th as a National Day of Service and Remembrance. On this day, I think it is fitting that we remember and honor the innocent lives taken during that vicious attack by renewing our commitment of service to our Nation. As the son of an Air Force NCO, I grew up

  • Hero2Hired Mobile Job Center Helps Travis Airmen

    The Hero2Hired mobile job store made a stop here at Travis Air Force Base on Sept. 3 and 4, during its three-week tour around the state of California. The one-stop-shop set up in front of the Airman and Family Readiness Center, and was open for active duty Airmen, veterans, Reservists and members of