• Services, nations gather for Gunfighter Flag

    Airmen from Travis Air Force Base, California, recently participated alongside other Airmen from various bases, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy and the Singapore air force in the week-long total-force exercise Gunfighter Flag,The joint advanced combat operations training exercise took place from Nov. 2

  • American Heart Association publishes DGMC doctor’s study

    A kidney specialist from David Grant USAF Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base, California, recently helped make his mark on a study more than a decade in the making.Maj. (Dr.) Ian Stewart, 60th Medical Group nephrologist, along with health care professionals from seven other facilities, teamed

  • Red Ribbon Week aims to keep children off drugs

    The Travis Air Force Base, California's Unified School District, along with more than 80 million young people around the country, celebrated National Red Ribbon Week Oct 26 to 30.National Red Ribbon Week is a drug-prevention program in which children wear red ribbons as a pledge to stay away from

  • Airman in the ER: Travis doctor saves hero Airman's life

    By the 20th hour of her 30-hour shift, she had already managed two gunshot victims when the call came into the emergency room.Just 2 miles away, an ambulance rushed to transport a 23-year-old male suffering from multiple stab wounds to Sacramento's only Level 1 trauma center, located at UC Davis

  • Team works to combat PTSD

    Approximately eight out of every 100 people will have posttraumatic stress disorder at some point in their lives, according to the National Center for PTSD. Due to the nature of military service, this number can increase for veterans.In an effort to combat this growing statistic, Airmen at David

  • Board tours cleanup sites

    Dave Marianno has been a member of the Travis Air Force Base, California, environmental restoration advisory board since its creation in 1994. He faithfully attends RAB meetings and has visited the base numerous times.What Marianno hadn't seen, until Friday, were some of the new technologies the

  • Cryo Airmen give lift to mission

    A white fog billowed out from underneath the tuck. Two individuals cloaked in rubber aprons, boots and thick gloves stood next to it, checking gauges next to a giant white vessel. They have white helmets on, with the word "Cryo" in black letters on the back of them.One of them works in the

  • Base protects endangered, threatened species

    The California tiger salamander is less than a foot long and not even two inches high yet it determines when and where construction occurs, what will or won't be removed and even when grass is mowed at Travis Air Force Base, California.The tiger salamander, one of five threatened and endangered

  • Travis earns excellence award at AMC level

    Air Mobility Command officially named Travis Air Force Base its Commander-in-Chief's Installation Excellence Award winner Oct. 19."I'm proud of everyone who makes Travis the base it is today, and it's no surprise that others recognize the great work we do here," said Col. Joel Jackson, 60th Air

  • Looking close at airfield violations

    According to Air Force Safety Automated System in 2009, 91 percent of airfield drivers who committed a runway incursion were trained. The definition of a Controlled Movement Area Violation is an airfield infraction caused by aircraft, vehicles or pedestrians entering the Controlled Movement Area