• 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

  • DGMC presented VPP "STAR" status, flag by OSHA

    The stars will descend on David Grant USAF Medical Center April 9, along with local officials and community leaders from surrounding Solano County and Team Travis is invited to the afternoon ceremony.Lt. Gen. Rusty M. Findley II, vice commander, Air Mobility Command; Maj. Gen. (Dr.) Thomas Loftus,

  • Knowing when to lead and when to follow

    Many of us spend a large portion of our day as a follower and very little time filling a traditional leadership role. Yet the Air Force invests a lot of time and money with the hope of making us great leaders with little attention given to the art of followership. Why do you suppose that is? In most

  • What you do reflects who you are

    The decisions you make in all facets of everyday life say so much about who you are as a person. Regardless of where you fit within society and the Air Force family, your actions reflect positively or negatively on you and those closest to you. So why do people make good and bad decisions? First,

  • AMC celebrates Outstanding Airmen of the Year

    Air Mobility Command's Outstanding Airmen and First Sergeant of the Year banquet April 8 will recognize 12 finalists who represent the best of the best in AMC.During the banquet one Airman from each of three categories - Airman, NCO and Senior NCO - will be chosen to represent AMC during the Air