• Inspections are opportunity to show pride

    Team Travis - Thank you for your efforts to improve our housing's appearance. In my short tenure here, we have dramatically improved the first impression of our installation! It is time once again to put forth another good push. Yard inspections occur the third Tuesday of every month and the next

  • Fitness is important to mission effectiveness

    Our fitness program has been in effect for nearly three years and every day I witness positive results of our fitness program...Airmen working out striving to get in shape or staying in shape. As you drive around base take notice of the many Airmen and family members incorporating physical fitness

  • Each of us remember 9/11 events

    My commentary this week is provided by our Vice Commander, Col. Thomas Sharpy to further reflect on the horrific disaster of 9-11. Col. Sharpy was serving as a Military Aide to Vice President Dick Cheney in the White House and had a very unique experience in the days following the attack on the

  • Every vote counts on election day

    I love trivia! I don't know how or why, but for some reason, my brain retains useless information like the name of the Red Sox starting second baseman during the 1986 World Series [Marty Barrett], but it dumps more important things, like the suspense date for reviewing the Travis Recall Plan [sorry,

  • Remember why we pause for retreat

    Hey what's the hurry? It's almost 4:29 p.m. I'm trying to get to my car before they sound retreat. Or, I'll wait until after retreat is played before I leave the building. How about this one...it's only a couple of yards before I reach the building, I'll just run for cover; so what if retreat is

  • Remember, reflect on 9/11

    As we approach the fifth year anniversary 9/11, it's appropriate to pause for a moment and reflect. Ask anyone what they were doing on September 11th 2001 and most will be able to clearly recall the events of that day in their lives and how they first learned of the terrorist attack. It's important

  • Crew monkeys around during first mission

    For a pilot, flying a brand new aircraft is something to brag about to friends. Flying a brand new aircraft on its first mission in support of a war is something to brag about to grandchildren. For Lieutenant Howard, a stuffed toy monkey, and the integrated crew from the 21st Airlift Squadron and

  • Why are you in the Air Force?

    Why? For almost all of us, why is a question we both ask and hear as a regular part of our daily life. Kids are particularly talented at asking why questions, and our military uniform and duties provide an endless source of questions. For me, this seems to be a regular event at home as my son

  • The expanding role of our "Battlefield Airmen"

    Air Force civil engineers continue to adapt to the ever changing battlefield, morphing into combat engineers or what leadership has labeled "battlefield-airmen." For the past three years, nearly 4,000 civil engineers have blazed a trail into new territory once seen only by the warriors of the

  • Pride in yourself is what’s important

    I have a mirror hanging in my office with a poem etched into the glass called: The Face in the Glass, it is based on the work written by Dale Wimbrow. It goes like this: When you get what you want in your struggle for self And the world makes you King for a day Then go to the mirror and look at