• Travis honors fallen service members through ruck march

    More than 300 Golden Bears rucked 6.2 miles Saturday morning, many with 30-pound ruck sacks strapped to their backs, to honor fallen service members and their family members in the fourth annual Gold Star Ruck March.The event, hosted by the First Sergeants Council, raises funds to support Gold Star

  • Travis teen wins state honor

    A Travis teen is recognized as the 2014 Boys & Girls Club of America Military Youth of the Year for the state of California.Elizabeth Hubbard, daughter of Master Sgt. (ret) Alan Hubbard, competed against nine other representatives from military installations across the state to be awarded this

  • DGMC hosts research symposium

    The 60th Medical Group hosted the annual research symposium, "Research Advancing Medicine," May 7 and 9 in the atrium of David Grant USAF Medical Center open to all hospital staff and, for the first time, patients. The symposium, which displayed information about past and current research projects

  • Hometown hero touches sky

    Not even a high-speed police chase can match the shot of adrenaline Solano County Sheriff's Deputy Jackson Harris received when Maj. Tyler Ellison flicked his high performance F-16 Fighting Falcon skyward in a near vertical climb to 16,000 feet over Northern California May 1.With his family watching

  • Dog eat dog: Travis set to host K9 competition

    Travis is hosting the 2014 Defenders K9 Trials May 16 and 17 where military and civilian police dogs will show off their best.The trials, organized by the Travis Defenders Association and the Western States Police Canine Association, has 39 different police agencies from Northern California set to

  • Travis plans events to toast Police Week

    Since 1962, a proclamation signed by former President John F. Kennedy designated May 15 as Peace Officers Memorial Day and the week in which that day falls as Police Week.This year's Police Week is May 11 to 17.According to policeweek.org, "Currently, tens of thousands of law enforcement officers

  • EOC jumps into action after crash

    At approximately 2:05 p.m., May 4 while performing an acrobatic aerial maneuver, Eddie Andreini, 77 years old from Half Moon Bay, California died after his PT-17 aircraft crashed on Travis airfield. In the aftermath, first responders made their way to the crash site while other personnel went to

  • TRAVIS AIR EXPO CANCELLED AFTER CIVILIAN PERFORMER MISHAP

    While performing an acrobatic aerial maneuver, Eddie Andreini, 77 years old from Half Moon Bay, California deceased after his PT-17 aircraft crashed at approximately 2:05 p.m. at Travis Air Force Base, California, during the "Thunder over Solano" Air Expo. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the

  • Travis chaplain a 'Warrior' in Leadership Pathways

    Capt. (Chaplain) Dave Haltom had a mission.The 60th Air Mobility Wing chaplain enrolled in the Air Force's Leadership Pathway program in January with the goal of covering as many courses as he could during the first quarter of the year.The chaplain didn't just achieve his goal. He did it better than