• Chapel to offer new service

    Beginning May 2, the Chapel will start a brand new family-friendly contemporary (Protestant) worship service at 10 a.m. at Chapel One, next to the Base Theatre. This change in time and location is in direct response to a base-wide survey conducted over the past few months. The new service and time

  • Air Force Services officials launch Month of the Military Child programs

    Air Force Services officials are highlighting a variety and scope of programs in partnership with base agencies for Month of Military Child and Year of the Air Force Family in recognition of military children and their families."Stay Connected" is among several Air Force-wide initiatives designed to

  • Tricare services available for special needs families

    Tricare beneficiaries who have family members with special needs now have access to specialized services within the Tricare program. The most important service is the Tricare Extended Care Health Option. To be eligible for ECHO, a family must first enroll into its service's branch for ECHO. Each

  • Team Travis rallies to help family in need

    Senior Air Force Leadership has designated July 2009 through July 2010 as the "Year of the Family." This concept of the "Air Force Family" means focusing on relationships both with your family - near or far, and with your fellow Airmen. As we reflect on families, the sign of any strong family is not

  • Maintenance civilian manager wins Marquez Award

    A civilian working with the 60th Maintenance Squadron was recently named as a winner of the 2009 Air Force Lieutenant General Leo Marquez Award.Steve Francis, the civilian superintendent of the Aircraft Maintenance Unit, was chosen as the top maintenance civilian manager for last year.It marks the

  • DOD Marrow Donor registration drive: A few minutes can save a life

    David Grant USAF Medical Center will host two Department of Defense Marrow Donor registration drives with the first on April 19 in conjunction with a base-wide blood drive from Noon to 4 p.m. in DGMC's Radiology waiting area, and outside the Bloodmobile at the Base Exchange and the other April 28

  • Back to Basics: What’s your excuse?

    Being about a year away from my retirement, I thought I'd seen everything. What I saw recently reminded me I can still be surprised - or appalled.As I arrived to work one morning, I saw two staff sergeants and two senior airmen standing outside on the sidewalk. As they stood there, a colonel walked

  • Stories of Freedom: What You Do Matters

    "When I was liberated in 1945 by the American Army, somehow many of us were convinced that at least one lesson will have been learned -- that never again will there be war, that hatred is not an option, that racism is stupid.... I was so hopeful."-- Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, during a June 2009

  • PMEL precision leaves no room for error

    Staff Sgt. Ryan Soliday began his Air Force career 11 years ago at the Los Angeles Military Entrance Processing Station. Six bases and a few odd countries later, he can be found at the Travis Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratory. Members of the PMEL at Travis are the purveyors of that accuracy