• Civilian employee with Navy drops 130 pounds

    Kirsten Lim knows the harsh pain of silent judgment that can come with being overweight.She's seen looks and felt casual cruelty from strangers. Once tipping the scale at 400 pounds, Lim was once asked by a flight attendant how she even got on a plane.Such remarks took their toll and, in March 2010,

  • National pastime teaches life lessons

    Summertime means different things to different people: swimming, barbecues, vacations, moving to a new school. For me, summer also means baseball.I won't mention my favorite major league team because it's in direct conflict with my wing commander's favorite team. However, I feel we can extract many

  • The Courageous 56

    When 56 courageous patriots put their signatures to a single piece of parchment 236 years ago, the course of world history changed in an instant. Although we celebrate the fourth day of July as Independence Day, it should not be lost on us that those signatures were the culmination of months of

  • 18th Air Force commander visits Travis

    Lt. Gen. Mark Ramsay, 18th Air Force commander, and Mrs. Patty Ramsay visited here Tuesday through Thursday to speak with Airmen, meet with installation leadership, and learn about the base's dynamic mission.Team Travis' unique capabilities were showcased to Ramsay during a tour of the base's

  • Refueling Maintenance keeps the JP-8 flowing

    It takes a special process to turn Jet Propellant-8 into raw airpower for Travis. Part of that process is for Airmen from the 60th Logistics Readiness Squadron to drive special vehicles out to the aircraft to provide refueling capabilities. Sometimes these specialized vehicles can malfunction and

  • Travis focuses on AFSO21

    The only constant is change. This is a commonly held sentiment by many in today's Air Force. What leads credence to this idea is the ever-evolving technological and economic landscape, our total force must be able to face the challenges of the current mission at hand while staying prepared for the

  • Travis EO: strength through a unified force

    With the complex and continuous operations of today's Air Force, it takes a diverse but unified workforce to meet the demands of the mission. To keep the force unified, there is a team dedicated to promoting education, awareness and understanding important issues involving diversity in the

  • How systems work

    When I was a kid, one of my favorite things to do was take things apart to see how they worked. I wasn't always able to put these things back together. Approximately 50 percent of the time, I'd wait for the item to no longer be serviceable before I'd begin dismantling it, so it didn't really matter

  • Recharge the batteries

    "Dad, where are the batteries?" my son yells as he runs into the kitchen with his video game controller. He throws the dead ones on the counter top, rifles through the drawer for more AAs and then runs away, back to the game at hand. I stood in amazement as this flurry of activity took merely 30

  • Random acts of kindness can go a long way

     Have you ever been complimented at work for your excellence? Did it make you feel appreciated? Have you ever received a little sticky note on your desk with a smiley face on it? Did it make you smile? Have you ever been treated to a free lunch by a friend just because? Did it make you feel