• Counsel aids sexual assault victims

    Sexual assault is an ongoing issue in the military especially for the Air Force. To combat these issues and provide support to victims, the Air Force is leading the way with the creation of the Special Victims' Counsel. The SVC includes 24 attorneys and 10 paralegals from the Judge Advocate General

  • Cryogenics Airman keeps it cool

    For approximately eight months Airman 1st Class Travis Allred, 60th Logistics Readiness Squadron fuels cryogenics technician, has worked and completed the mission diligently and quietly.Allred services, maintains, receives and issues liquid oxygen and liquid nitrogen that is stored in 5,000 gallon

  • Camp offers kids chance to be Super Heroes

    Friday wrapped up a weeklong training for children in the Exceptional Family Member Program's Super Hero Camp at the Balfour Beatty Community Center.The EFMP is a mandatory enrollment program based on carefully defined rules. An exceptional family member is a family member, regardless of age, who

  • Security Forces watch base throughout night

    Maintaining the security of a base and the zone around it is no easy task. It takes a multitude of personnel to keep watch over Travis 24 hours a day and for some Airmen in the 60th Security Forces Squadron, their day doesn't even start until Retreat plays on base."The enemy doesn't have a

  • Practice safety during Independence Day

    As the Fourth of July approaches, we ask that everyone at Travis take extra time and think about the hazards that come along with the holiday. In addition to the general risks of warm weather, the Fourth of July often includes fireworks, grilling, drinking, boating, swimming, driving and

  • Civil Air Patrol has history at Travis

    Civil Air Patrol is the civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force. It was created by Administrative Order 9 in December 1941, with Maj. Gen. John F. Curry as the first CAP national commander. The organization was originally formed to provide civilian air support to aid the war effort of

  • Port Dawgs ship help

    The 60th Aerial Port Squadron recently shipped more than 14,000 pounds of donated humanitarian relief supplies to Afghanistan as part of a Denton Program shipment.The Denton Program's objective is to put the empty space on U.S. military transport to good use by providing humanitarian relief

  • AMC recognizes Airman

    Ask Airman 1st Class Scott Krause, 60th Maintenance Squadron avionics flight member, to talk about himself and the response is a quiet one.Lacking boast or ego, the Air Mobility Command-level recipient of Tuskegee Airmen Inc.'s Senior Master Sgt. Margaret Barbour Frances Award is speechless about

  • Military children attend 49ers linebackers' two-day football camp

    Approximately 250 children, ages 7 to 14, participated in the Patrick Willis Football ProCamp at Gunn High School in Palo Alto, June 15 and 16, half of them being military children from the local area.The camp was a two-day event which had various stations, specialized to hone the fundamental skills

  • Base operations keep cargo moving under cover of darkness

    For Airmen at Travis to move the volume of cargo that they do, it is necessary for them to have operations running 24 hours a day. It wouldn't be safe however, to have the Airmen in the 60th Aerial Port Squadron work nonstop. This is where the night shift takes over."We typically move three times as