• Maintenance Group prepared for LCAP

    Nearly 2,800 maintainers at Travis have spent countless hours preparing for the Logistics Compliance Assessment Program scheduled for Sunday through Jan. 10. The purpose of the LCAP is to provide leadership at all levels with an evaluation of a unit's ability to perform key logistics processes in a

  • Travis cuts non-mission critical expenses

    As part of an Air Force-wide response to help prepare for fiscal year 2013 budget uncertainties, Travis has been directed by senior leadership to follow a force-wide temporary hiring freeze and limit non-mission critical expenses. Non-mission critical expenses include supporting flying missions not

  • Photo lab snaps base into focus

    Airmen needing a place to receive their official passport photos, special duty and award package photos need look no further.The base photo lab provides government passport photos for active duty or Reserve Airmen and their families. Walk-in hours for passport photos are 1 to 4 p.m. Mondays and

  • Aircrew flight equipment keeps Airmen safe in the air

    Safety is a vital proponent for the Air Force to maintain mission continuity and personnel retainment. When flying missions, safety becomes even more important because a misstep or faulty piece of equipment could have life-ending results.The Air Force has recognized the necessity for safety while

  • January is Customer Appreciation Month

    January 14 is the start date for Customer Appreciation Month. The 60th Force Support Squadron will thank its customers by offering $1,000 in prizes for 18 days. The squadron is responsible for more than 22 retail and childcare facilities at Travis and 12 are participating with featured deals,

  • Travis wins LeMay Award

    In November 2012, Maj. Elizabeth Eychner, 60th Force Support Squadron commander, was informed that her squadron was chosen, for the second year in a row, as the Air Mobility Wing Curtis E. Lemay winners. This award is given to the best FSS in the command. Now the squadron has its sights set on the

  • Airman awarded Purple Heart

    Senior Airman Kevin Bolton, 573rd Global Support Squadron air transportation specialist, was awarded the Purple Heart Wednesday at the Base Theater at Travis. In February 2012, while assigned to the 60th Aerial Port Squadron, Bolton deployed as part of a 10-person team to Forward Operating Base

  • AE mission soars through Pacific in KC-10

    Crews and aircraft from several Air Force units arrived here from Travis AFB, Calif., Dec. 2, during one of three "proof of principle" missions evaluating the KC-10 Extender's capability to support combined cargo and aeromedical evacuation missions throughout the Pacific. The missions are part of an

  • Electronic beacons track pallets

    They can be seen everywhere a service member travels. They can have a month's worth of water stored on them in Afghanistan or form the walls of a shack in Haiti. They have been used to transport thousands of vehicles in the Department of Defense or just reutilized as makeshift flooring for a tent on

  • Travis residents make the ‘Switch 4 Good’

    Some Travis residents now have the opportunity to participate in an energy use study that could reduce overall consumption. Balfour Beatty Communities in association with WattzOn, a California-based energy efficiency company, will conduct a study of families in the Onziuka Flats North area as part