• Ten Pin eatery gets ball rolling

    The latest Food Transformation Initiative location, Ten Pin inside of Travis Bowl, celebrated its grand opening Sept. 15 with free food and door prizes to all who attended.Travis is one of five pilot bases incorporating the campus-style dining option into the meal card plan. The campus-style dining

  • Leadership must be earned daily--with RESPECT

    Leadership is not given, ordained or a right. It doesn't come from position or rank. Leadership must be earned every day. Any Airman can be a leader as long as they are disciplined in their positive daily habits. Andrew Carnegie once said, "The older I get the less I listen to what people say and

  • Delayed Enlistment Training Flight takes off at Travis

    The Air Force Reserve's newest Airmen are getting a leg up on their future with the stand-up of delayed enlistment training flights. Travis was selected as one of five pilot bases to launch this Reserve program. On Saturdays of the A and B flight unit training assemblies, the trainees meet at the

  • Team Travis remembers 9/11

    A formal tribute ceremony took place for the heroes and victims of 9/11 Sunday, in front of the 60th Air Mobility Wing headquarters building.Around the flagpole, Airmen from the 15th Expeditionary Mobility Task Forces, 60th Air Mobility Wing, 615th Contingency Response Wing and the 349th Air

  • Take this job and love it comes to a close

    In the movies, Air Force jobs always look glamorous. Airmen are shown in flight suits walking toward airplanes or in full service dress in a secret computer room with all the nation's leaders. In reality, there are many jobs in the Air Force that get over looked because they are not so glamorous.

  • Annual Travis Triathlon brings out competitors' best

    The Travis Fitness Center hosted the Annual Travis Triathlon Saturday open to the base populace. The timed endurance event consisted of swimming, biking and running.Participants registered at the Travis Aquatic Center at 8 a.m. and began the race at 9 a.m. The competitors were divided into three

  • Health Fair has tools to keep fit

    Health and Wellness Center coordinator Jennifer Pearson organized a Health Fair Sept. 9 for service members of the 60th Maintenance Squadron and their families at gym 1 in the Travis Fitness Center. As part of the Comprehensive Airman Fitness program, the event was designed to demonstrate a variety

  • Vacaville Jazz Festival led by Travis civil engineer

    The sixth grader was disappointed first as a Golden West Middle School student when his band teacher, Richard Grokenberger, assigned him to last trumpet. It was 1976 at the middle school located just off Travis. After those auditions that Keith Stout, 60th Civil Engineer Squadron civil engineer

  • DGMC focuses on suicide prevention month

    I recently read a Modesto Bee article reprinted on the Calif. website of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. It stated that more veterans have committed suicide since 2001 than have died in both the Iraqi and Afghanistan battlefields. I had to stop reading and consider that statement. How can