• SARC team pays vist to Sac State

    Sexual assault may be the most underreported violent crime in the United States and eliminating sexual assault from the military remains a top priority for Department of Defense leadership. To assist with this priority, the Travis Sexual Assault Response Coordinators educated Air Force ROTC cadets

  • Hawks win versus Beale

    The Travis Hawks kicked off their first game of the season Tuesday against Beale Air Force Base with a 46-43 victory.The Hawks are the Travis' men's basketball team. They represent Travis at base level basketball games and tournaments. During the season, the team plays Beale AFB, Vandenberg AFB,

  • Travis' 621st CRW keeps budget lean with humanitarian relief simulation

    The 621st Contingency Response Wing is known as Air Mobility Command's 911 force and can be tasked to provide a broad array of mission sets ranging from contingency response to humanitarian relief operations. They stand on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.In an effort to remain proficient at

  • Special needs families share concerns at meeting

    More than 40 Travis families discussed the base's Exceptional Family Member Program with wing and David Grant USAF Medical Center leadership at a town hall meeting here Nov. 6.The Air Force's EFMP serves as a multi-agency approach to manage medical, personnel, education, and other support for Airmen

  • New heritage center display celebrates aeromedical evac

    "We are not the heroes, we just bring them home."This is the motto of the men and women who serve in the Aero Medical Evacuation Squadrons throughout the Air Force. Creating an aero medical evacuations display at the Heritage Museum has been a goal for the heritage center staff."It's something that

  • Ground broken on second Fisher House

    More than 200 invited guests, Solano County dignitaries, Travis base leadership, news media, radio personalities and friends of the Travis Fisher House gathered Wednesday to witness history repeat itself. For the second time in two decades, ceremonial shovels dug into the ground to mark the breaking

  • Artist recaptures history

    Since early childhood, Stu Shepherd has spent hours upon hours of his daily life encompassed by aircraft, though he doesn't know how to fly or mechanically work on them.The San Jose native began building model aircraft as a child and in high school began painting them. Since then he has painted more

  • Missile crisis not without tradgedy

    The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962-dramatically documented in the 1974 ABC-TV teleplay "The Missiles of October" and the 2000 motion picture "Thirteen Days"-proved the importance of aerial reconnaissance by the Lockheed U-2 Dragon Lady and other airborne assets. For 13 days, the United States and the

  • Think ink: Publications serve Travis throughout base's history

    One would assume anyone reading this sentence knows the product you're reading right now is the Tailwind, Travis' base newspaper.What you may not know is its history or its role in delivering information to the Travis base populace throughout the years.The paper is the product of collaboration

  • Markets to begin scanning ID cards

    Commissaries will soon begin scanning customers' Department of Defense ID cards at checkouts as the Defense Commissary Agency continues its pursuit to deliver a 21st century benefit.The commissary at Fort Lee, Va., became the first store to scan ID cards Oct. 22 as the first part of an agency-wide