• Team spruces Travis' looks

    The Base Appearance Team at Travis Air Force Base is a small group with a big job."We spruce up the entire base," said Staff Sgt. Ronald Brown, 60th Civil Engineer Squadron BAT manager. "In August, the BAT collected 190 bags of debris, to include trash at Travisville Park, the skate park and the

  • Airmen replace door on C-5 landing gear

    Six members of Travis Air Force Base's 60th Maintenance Squadron aero repair section recently worked around the clock for three weeks to replace a landing gear door on a C-5M Super Galaxy aircraft.The aircraft, which has a Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, tail, had a crack in its left-side landing

  • Civilian leads CAF program

    In the hallway of the wing headquarters building there is an office with a small brown placard emblazoned with gold letters that reads Community Support Coordinator. It is an installation-level position created by the Air Force in the wake of the Fort Hood, Texas shooting incident in 2009.At Travis,

  • Loadmaster stays safe, saves lives

    Last December, Senior Airman Cody Nuñez, 21st Airlift Squadron, spent two weeks in Entebbe, Uganda providing humanitarian care to the war-torn Central African Republic."We were there to support the Contingency Response Group by setting up security operations and providing resources such as power

  • Honor Guard training focuses on Travis Reserves

    Every two months, the Travis Honor Guard holds training for prospective new members to get them spun up on movements and expectations of one of the most honored roles in the military. Typically, this training consists primarily of active-duty Airmen from Travis, but August's training was solely

  • CAIB aims to provide avenues to get care

    In an effort to provide avenues of care to Airmen and their families, wing leaders from across the installation meet on a quarterly basis to identify community issues and work in unity at finding resolutions.Locally, the Community Action Information Board, or CAIB, discusses a wide variety of

  • Airmen help with boy's 'off the wall' wish

    "You wanna be tough, better do what you can, so beat it," blared over the sound system Aug. 24 at the Tucker Farm Center in Calistoga, California, in preparation for a blast-from-the-past party for 4-year-old Marlon Valentine, Michael Jackson fanatic and Make-A-Wish recipient. Airmen from Travis Air

  • MOC coordinates mission

    The intricate coordination among maintenance, aircrew, cargo loaders, fuels and many other support units begins many hours before take-off, and requires accurate information movement to keep the mission safe and successful.The 60th Maintenance Operations Center, usually comprised of 5 Airmen per

  • Travis makes boy superhero for a day

    As he puts on the uniform that resembles military desert camouflage, he is no longer a child. He is a superhero. His mission is to use his extremely advanced fighting skills developed over his 11 years on earth to defeat the bad guys and rescue the good guys. His superhero instincts lead him to the

  • Travis welcomes new 60th Mission Support Group commander

    The 60th Mission Support Group welcomed its new commander during a change of command ceremony Aug. 8 at Travis Air Force Base.The change of command is an official, formal and brief ceremony that is the military's way of bestowing command responsibility of a unit to one officer. The ceremony is