• Pharmacy opens refill kiosks

    To reduce pharmacy wait times and better serve beneficiaries, the David Grant USAF Medical Center has installed two self-service kiosks for prescription refills in the base exchange mini-mall at Travis Air Force Base, California.

  • Travis to honor POW, MIA service members

    More than 83,000 U.S. service members are unaccounted for since World War II.Travis Air Force Base, California, is set to honor every one of them with a series of events on Sept. 14 and 15.

  • National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

    September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month and the Department of Defense is encouraging people to connect with others to save the lives of service members, civilians and their families.

  • Symbols We Stow: Flag serves as memorial for sergeant

    When Carole Sherbula gave a flag to Staff Sgt. Korey O’Shea, he had no idea how its meaning would change.When he was about to go on his first deployment in 2012, O’Shea, 921st Contingency Response Squadron aerial port mobility supervisor, accepted the rectangle of cloth from Sherbula, a family

  • 60 APS conducts joint inspection with FEMA

    Three Airmen from the 60th Aerial Port Squadron traveled to Sacramento Aug. 23 to perform a joint inspection with the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Task Force 7. Task Force 7 is one of eight FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Forces based in California and one of 28 in the United States. They

  • Gold Star family member receives first Travis DBIDS ID card

    Jennifer Serex-Helwig, a Gold Star family member, became the first person to receive the Gold Star DBIDS installation access card issued at Travis Air Force Base, California, Aug. 29. Serex-Helwig is the daughter of U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Henry Serex whose plane was shot down over Vietnam on April

  • Former KC-10 pilot, ALS instructor serve as teachers

    He has grey hair, wears grey glasses and an inviting smile covers his face. In the Air Force he was an instructor pilot teaching Airmen how to fly aircraft valued at millions of dollars. His job now is focused on much younger Airmen.

  • Total Force Continuum team visits Travis

    The Air Force’s Total Force Continuum team visited Travis Air Force Base, California, Aug. 21 – 23 to observe operations and learn how to best implement total force integration.

  • The power of music

    “How do you guys feel about the tempo? Let’s start at bar 70. It’s sounding a little sour. You make the difference not with volume, but with accent,” said Tech. Sgt. Thomas Salyers, Travis Brass noncommissioned officer in charge, during a recent rehearsal.