• Annual Travis Triathlon brings out competitors' best

    The Travis Fitness Center hosted the Annual Travis Triathlon Saturday open to the base populace. The timed endurance event consisted of swimming, biking and running.Participants registered at the Travis Aquatic Center at 8 a.m. and began the race at 9 a.m. The competitors were divided into three

  • Health Fair has tools to keep fit

    Health and Wellness Center coordinator Jennifer Pearson organized a Health Fair Sept. 9 for service members of the 60th Maintenance Squadron and their families at gym 1 in the Travis Fitness Center. As part of the Comprehensive Airman Fitness program, the event was designed to demonstrate a variety

  • Vacaville Jazz Festival led by Travis civil engineer

    The sixth grader was disappointed first as a Golden West Middle School student when his band teacher, Richard Grokenberger, assigned him to last trumpet. It was 1976 at the middle school located just off Travis. After those auditions that Keith Stout, 60th Civil Engineer Squadron civil engineer

  • Registration opens for Viking Challenge 2011

    Viking Challenge - the annual fundraiser for the Travis Fisher House will take place Saturday, Oct. 1. The event, sponsored by the 615th Contingency Response Wing's Phoenix Mobility Program, is a 12-hour relay in which teams of eight to 10 people continuously move--run, jog or walk around the Travis

  • Fairways grand opening

    Fairways, the newest restaurant to participate in the Food Transformation Initiative at Travis, held its grand opening Sept. 1 at Cypress Lakes Golf Course.The event marked the beginning of the availability of campus-style dining at the 60th Force Support Squadron food options around the base.Airmen

  • National Night Out raises awareness about safety

    Balfour Beatty Life Works hosted National Night Out, an event designed to heighten different aspects of safety awareness for residents of Travis, Aug. 31 at the Balfour Beatty Community Center. More than 500 were in attendance.The participants of the event included the Salvation Army, Travis Police

  • Transit Center Airmen participate in 'First Bell' ceremonies

    First graders with eager and nervous faces lined school yards across the Kyrgyz Republic waiting for the youngest student in their school to ring "First Bell" and start their school year Sept. 1. The Russian tradition takes place each year in the Kyrgyz Republic on the first day of school and

  • Women's health a place to comfort, learn

    She began her adult life as many college students do, switching majors frequently as she worked toward her degree. Her family's rich military history, topped with her dad's Air Force stories of the best years of his life, prompted Airman 1st Class Elizabeth Zello to join the Air Force. She visited a

  • Exercise spans seas

    More than 40 members of the 15th Air Mobility Operations Squadron traveled to the Republic of Korea recently, bringing their specialized expertise to the Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercise held annually across the Korean peninsula. Ulchi Freedom Guardian 2011 took place Aug. 16 to 26, and is the