• Travis transports dolphins to MMP San Diego

    Citizen Airmen from the 301st Airlift Squadron transported four Bottlenose Dolphins and their handlers from Naval Air Station Key West, Florida, to the U.S. Naval Marine Mammal Program, San Diego April 29.

  • Thunderbird pilot visits VHS

    U.S. Air Force Maj. Ryan Bodenheimer, United States Air Force Thunderbirds pilot #2, speaks with Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps students at Vanden High School, Fairfield, Calif., May 5. The Thunderbirds performed in the Wings Over Solano Air Show at Travis Air Force Base, Calif May 6 - 7.

  • Golden Knights descend on FHS

    The U.S. Army Golden Knights parachute team perform skydiving maneuvers May 4 at Fairfield High School in Fairfield, Calif. The Golden Knights were in Northern California for the "Wings Over Solano" Air Show May 6-7 at Travis Air Force Base. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Senior Airman Amber Carter)

  • AMC maintainers combine skills, repair grounded C-5M at Ramstein

    Normally when a C-5M Galaxy is off the ground, it is soaring thousands of feet above the world. For one particular C-5 flying out of Travis Air Force Base, Calif., that was not the case when a malfunctioning landing gear caused it to be raised only a few feet above the ground inside a hangar.

  • 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