• Four tips to keep your car going all summer

    The weather is warm, the bags are packed and there's not a cloud in the sky. It's a perfect day for a summer road trip; until the car won't start. Now your day of fun in the sun just got cut short by an expensive repair issue that could have been avoided with routine maintenance.John Gray, Travis

  • Last C-5 Galaxy receives AMP at Travis

    A 1970 C-5A Galaxy was the last C-5A to be converted from a "legacy" C-5 to an Avionics Modernization Program C-5 in the Air Force and was completed at Travis Sunday. Since June 2005, 38 C-5 A/B aircraft were modified at Travis by the Lockheed Martin contract field team as part of a two-phased

  • Vet finds American dream

    Master Sgt. Sam Katchmar retired in June of ΚΌ68, 20 years after he began his service to the country in the newly-formed Air Force. American-born, his mother sold their family saloon and moved, with her six children, to Poland after her husband died in a coal mine accident. The family survived in

  • Resiliency, positive attitude equals positive outcome

    Too often our lives are hit with unexpected changes that can result in difficult and stressful times. In my 23 years in our fine Air Force, I have personally experienced some rather tough times. When I think back, I remember feeling a sense of hopelessness and anguish. I wondered how I was ever

  • DGMC marks Nurse and Technician Appreciation Week

    David Grant USAF Medical Center will launch a week-long celebration Monday to honor its registered nurses and medical technician staff members.Scheduled activities under this year's theme of "Nurses: Advocating, Leading, Caring" include a display of school children's drawings of RNs and medics, a

  • Travis youth gain job skills through program

    Travis youth have an opportunity to get a leg up when applying for college in today's competitive college application environment.The 60th Force Support Squadron Youth Center is offering a Youth Employment Skills program for Travis dependents in high school. Participants are able to volunteer at a

  • Protocol protects military heritage

    Behind every military ceremony, banquet and distinguished visitor trip, there is a team of perfectionists working long and irregular hours to ensure an Air Force standard of "excellence in all we do" is maintained.The Travis Protocol team bustles around base at any given time, stays behind the

  • Travis opens fuel site

    Col. Dwight Sones, 60th Air Mobility Wing commander, was joined by Army Col. Bill Keyes, Defense Logistics Agency Energy Americas commander, and Jim Kehlet, Kinder-Morgan Business Development West vice president, to cut the ribbon on the new Kinder-Morgan fuel tank site Tuesday on Travis. The $50

  • IG protects Air Force integrity, excellence

    When you find a duty area that needs improvement or are having difficulties in the workplace, turn first to your chain of command. The chain cannot operate properly to address your concern without awareness of the problem. When the chain is unresponsive or unable to address that concern, the

  • Travis boxer captures win

    Ninety seconds. A lot can happen in 90 seconds. It can pass by quickly or, in the sport of boxing, it can seem like a lifetime. It only took the boxing judges in Sacramento 90 seconds to determine the boxer from Travis had beaten his opponent.Staff Sgt. Justin Cureton, 60th Aircraft Maintenance