• Coming Clean, Maintaining fuel systems a dirty job for 60th MXS Airmen

    After a day on the job, Air Force Reservist Tech. Sgt. Barrett Read, 60th Maintenance Squadron aircraft fuel systems repair, has to change his clothes in the garage before his wife lets him in the house.Sergeant Read maintains fuel systems on the C-5 Galaxy, C-17 Globemaster and the KC-10

  • Pest control Airman saves, helps base's beasts

    A day on the job for Airman 1st Class Dustin Stone, member of the 60th Civil Engineering Squadron entomology shop aka pest control, can be exciting, challenging and sometimes smelly.Airman Stone performs a variety of tasks on a daily basis, which include anything from cleaning up road kill, spraying

  • A standing order

    On a sunny day, a windy day or even during a torrential downpour, the civilian gate guards of the 60th Security Forces Squadron stand watch to help ensure security around Travis. A long day of checking identification cards and being blinded by headlights can create a recipe for bad moods or decrease

  • Hey, can you 'dig' it?

    Second Lt. Katie Batchelder may not have played volleyball competitively since the fall of 2008, but the bump in action has done little to cool her fire for the court."It's the only sport where you can hit somebody in the face with a ball on purpose and get away with it," said the 23-year-old

  • Internet can have hidden dangers

    Operational Security, more commonly known today as OPSEC, is not a new concept. Though our current Air Force Instruction 10-701 directing the OPSEC program was released in 2007, OPSEC is as old as the original Trojan Horse. For the most part, it is common sense ... keep your adversary in the dark

  • Technological advances can make a workplace stressful

    It's an everyday occurrence in the Air Force that the terms hot, now, ASAP, negative reply not accepted, due today, and hot tasker tend to cause a lot of stress. It's amazing how much stress these words generate. Why is it we demand so much in such short notice and place so much pressure on each

  • Airmen rise to challenge in any area

    While deployed to the Jimmy Doolittle Center at the 612th Air and Space Operations Center located at Davis Monthan Air Force Base in picturesque Tucson Arizona, I've had the opportunity to reflect on current world news, following a devastating earthquake and Tsunami that struck the island of Japan

  • Confront challenges using the three B's

    "Life happens!" This statement can just about sum it up, don't you think? Events unfold throughout life that impact how we chose to live. In turn it makes us who we are. Great things happen to us every day, so do challenges and disappointments. That's what life is all about ... taking the good with

  • Back shop faces Hydraulics, solvent and airplanes — oh my!

    People may wonder what goes on behind-the-scenes to prepare an aircraft to function safely, efficiently and correctly. A big part of the behind-the-scenes preparation takes place at the hydraulic back shop, where things get messy. The hydraulic back shop team is responsible for breaking down the

  • Versatility essential to AGE

    While looking out the window of an aircraft, there are many support functions that can be seen in action. There are maintainers pull chalks and marshalling the aircraft, while the aircrew performs walk around inspections. Seldom noticed, however, are all the pieces of support equipment involved in