• Plan provides in-home care

    Parents have more options than they may realize for child care at Travis Air Force Base, California.Many people are familiar with the three child development centers on base. Family Child Care, an alternate option, provides care for infants to school-aged children from one of 18 licensed in-home

  • Base offers free tutoring for kids

    The Armed Services YMCA and Travis Air Force Base, California offer a free community-based tutoring program for elementary school students.Operation Hero is an after school tutoring program. It offers three, 10-week programs on base throughout the school year to first through fifth graders at Travis

  • Officer earns Bronze Star Medal

    Lt. Col. David Hammerschmidt, 60th Maintenance Group deputy commander, was awarded the Bronze Star Medal during an April 9 ceremony at Travis Air Force Base, California.Col. Mark Weber, 60th MXG commander, who presided over the ceremony, told base leaders and approximately 50 Airmen that

  • C-141 celebrates 50 Golden (Bear) years at Travis

    The 60th Air Mobility Wing at Travis Air Force Base, California, will hold a 50th anniversary ceremony at 9:30 a.m. April 23 at the Golden Bear C-141 static display to celebrate the airplane.Anyone stationed at or visiting Travis cannot help but encounter the Golden Bear, a gleaming C-141B

  • March remembers fallen

     Two Airmen from Travis Air Force Base, California, participated March 22 in the Bataan Memorial Death March, at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.Tech. Sgt. Joshua Johnson, 60th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron A-Team section chief, and Senior Airman Samuel Montgomery, 60th Maintenance Group

  • Travis Airmen confront PTSD

    At a recent Travis Top Three meeting at Travis Air Force Base, California, Capt. Laura Johnson, 60th Medical Operations Squadron psychologist, and Capt. Meghan Steinour, 60th MDOS psychiatrist, at David Grant USAF Medical Center's Mental Health Clinic, asked 67 senior NCOs to raise their hand if

  • Maintainers and porters push plane

    While many Airmen and their families were fast asleep, Travis Air Force Base, California, crews were up setting world aviation records.In the early morning of April 3, a Travis C-5M Super Galaxy set 45 records, landing it as the world's top aviation record holder, but none of this would have been

  • Travis C-5M flies into aviation record books

    In the early morning hours of April 3, a C-5M Super Galaxy aircrew from Travis Air Force Base, California, put the aircraft's capabilities to the test.The eight-person crew, with members of the 60th Air Mobility Wing's 22nd Airlift Squadron and the 349th AMW's 312th AS, accomplished their goal of

  • Family Fun Fest puts focus on Travis' children

    Travis held its third annual Family Fun Fest April 1 at the Airman and Family Readiness Center parking lot to kick off Month of the Military Child, National Child Abuse Prevention Month and National Autism Awareness Month.Caspar Weinberger, former Secretary of Defense, established April as the Month