• Remembering when DGMC moved to its current home

    When contractors turned over the keys to the David Grant USAF Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base, California Oct. 21, 1988, the medical center officially became Air Force property. However, it would take another 60 days to make it ready to receive patients.

  • Smoke Testing

    The 60th Civil Engineer Squadron at Travis Air Force Base, California, is using non-toxic smoke to find cracks and other openings in connections where rainwater might enter the base's sanitary sewer system, beginning Nov. 6.

  • Enlistees overcome personal obstacles to commission as officers

    If the U.S. Air Force was a house, the enlisted and officer corps could be seen as the two pillars that keep it standing. Through the respective work of each group of Airmen, the Air Force is able to maintain its effectiveness, yet while both groups are vital to the house’s overall integrity, many

  • Aerial refueling training prepares mobility forces for tomorrow

    A U.S. Air Force KC-10 Extender aircraft from the 6th Air Refueling Squadron conducts aerial refueling training with another KC-10 from the 9th ARS over California, Oct. 24, 2018. Travis Airmen conduct training events to stay current and be prepared for future mobility operations. (U.S. Air Force

  • Phoenix Spark coding challenge

    Phoenix Spark will hold a coding competition at its Innovation Lab at 3 p.m. Oct. 26, 2018 in Bldg. 181 at Travis Air Force Base, California. Phoenix Spark, the base’s grassroots innovation program, is looking for coders in Swift, Java, Python, JavaScript and HTML in order to put together a team of

  • Routine mammogram changes life for Travis Sgt.

    In order to support a friend who was nervous about her own screening, Tech. Sgt. Melissa Rocha booked her first mammogram nearly two years ago. But what the 44-year-old flutist for the U.S. Air Force Band of the Golden West at Travis Air Force Base, California, expected to be a routine medical

  • Training prepares mobility forces for tomorrow

    U.S. Air Force Maj. Sean Sizemore, right, 21st Airlift Squadron C-17 Globemaster III pilot, and Capt. Kevin Rowe, 821st Contingency Response Squadron tactics flight commander, fly a C-17 during an aerial refueling training mission with a KC-10 Extender above California, Oct. 17, 2018. Travis Airmen

  • DGMC begins flu vaccine campaign

    The Immunization Clinic at the David Grant USAF Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base, California, will offer flu shots to all TRICARE beneficiaries beginning Oct. 22.