• Contests support energy causes

    Thousands of pounds of recycling were saved and hundreds of kilowatt hours of energy were generated during events held at Travis last month.A team of 60th Maintenance Squadron members recently won the Airman Power Tournament, a contest to covert human energy into electrical wattage on elliptical

  • Travis celebrates Kids Day of Fishing

    The annual Kids Day of Fishing Derby is now scheduled for Saturday, May 19 at 8 a.m. with check-in beginning at 7:30am. Travis has hosted this event for the past five years. This year's event will take place at a pond located at Cypress Lakes Golf Course, unlike previous years which were at the Duck

  • DOD Marrow Donor registration drive: A few minutes can save a life

    Each day, thousands of people are waiting for a potentially lifesaving bone marrow transplant. Bone marrow transplants can treat over 70 different potentially fatal diseases. For many patients, a marrow transplant is the only treatment option that provides a cure for blood cancers like leukemia and

  • AGE uses JP-8 to support Travis aircraft

    For those who have flown on Travis aircraft, it may be a mystery that it takes hundreds of pieces of ground equipment to keep those planes mission ready. It may be an even bigger mystery that the fuel keeping some of those machines ready is the very same fuel that powers aircraft. The fuel is Jet

  • Mom’s Special Brunch at Travis

    Moms love brunch and the Delta Breeze Club loves Mom. Poached eggs, crispy bacon and beverages - these are just a few of the items that the DBC is preparing for Travis moms on Mother's Day Sunday. Celebrating Mother's Day with brunch is not new to Travis. However, this year Chef Jacob Knutte, 60th

  • Travis prepares for Critical Days of Summer

     The Critical Days of Summer campaign begins May 25 for the Memorial Day weekend and ends after Labor Day weekend. Travis leadership's goal is to heighten activity awareness so each Airman will make their safety a personal choice. The theme this year is "Safety - It's Personal." On May 18, members

  • Aerial porters move pallets

    It may be no rare feat for Travis Airmen to move more than 87,000 pounds of cargo in only one day. It may also be commonplace for them to deal with moving approximately $59.7 million worth of goods in a single shift.However, for a unit with only three people, the Airmen in the Department of Defense

  • Four tips to keep your car going all summer

    The weather is warm, the bags are packed and there's not a cloud in the sky. It's a perfect day for a summer road trip; until the car won't start. Now your day of fun in the sun just got cut short by an expensive repair issue that could have been avoided with routine maintenance.John Gray, Travis

  • Last C-5 Galaxy receives AMP at Travis

    A 1970 C-5A Galaxy was the last C-5A to be converted from a "legacy" C-5 to an Avionics Modernization Program C-5 in the Air Force and was completed at Travis Sunday. Since June 2005, 38 C-5 A/B aircraft were modified at Travis by the Lockheed Martin contract field team as part of a two-phased