• Active, Reserve EOD teams support NORCAL communities

    Their name brings to mind the stories out of Hollywood blockbusters. Visions of deafening explosions and gun shots spin through the mind as one visualizes a service member crouching over a device, daring the sweat dripping from his forehead not to fall, praying he chooses the right wire to pull.

  • Youth center director to attend Harvard Leadership Summit

    For 26 years Carrie Basaca, 60th Force Support Squadron Travis Youth Center director, has worked with youth from the Philippines to the United States. She started teaching in 1991 and has served in one way or another as a teacher of children in six countries.

  • Dual-military couple values family, service

    The Leidholms are just like any ordinary young family. They get up early each day of the week to deal with the happy chaos of getting themselves ready for work, and preparing their two small daughters for the day. Dad and mom tag-team – he changes the baby’s diaper, makes sure the 3-and-a-half year

  • Against the odds: A cancer survivor’s journey back to the cockpit

    “Why are you here?”The question came from Col. Corwin Pauly, 60th Air Mobility Wing vice commander at Travis Air Force Base, California. It was June 2015, and he had just arrived at Travis as the incoming vice commander. One of the first Airmen he met was Maj. Matt Bartomeo, a C-5M Super Galaxy

  • Household Universal Waste and what to do with it

    Universal Waste is a general descriptive term used to describe wastes that are generated by a large, diverse population. The category of Universal Waste was created in the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s hazardous waste regulations to streamline the hazardous waste management

  • DoD launches military child care website at Travis

    Families at Travis Air Force Base, California, will have access to a new Department of Defense website starting April 27 designed to simplify and improve the child care request for care process.

  • Share a ride, earn some cash

    Ride sharing not only helps to reduce the nation’s carbon footprint and mitigate the impact of climate change, it also reduces commuting costs and can earn commuters up to $255 per month.

  • Travis wins first DOD environmental restoration award

    Dedication to using green and sustainable remediation technologies and biological processes that breakdown contaminates in groundwater has earned Travis Air Force Base, California, its first Secretary of Defense Environmental Restoration Award for Installations.

  • Travis brings final KC-10 home after modification

    The 59th and final KC-10 Extender was modified and flown home by the 9th and 6th Air Refueling Squadrons at Travis Air Force Base, California, March 28 - signifying the completion of a six-year project.