• Operation Cookie Drop drops bags of treats into Airmen's hands

    Volunteers from around the base are needed this year to help bring cheer to our young Airmen during the holidays with a bag of cookies. The Travis Integrated Delivery System, Air Force Sergeants Association and the Officer's Spouses Club are teaming together to sponsor Operation Cookie Drop Dec. 20

  • Travis' ASF Airmen tend to wounded warriors

    More than 2,500 U.S. military members wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq passed through Travis to receive aid from the 60th Aeromedical Staging Flight at David Grant USAF Medical Center. Some stay for minutes on the flightline to change flights, others stay for days in the unit's 38-bed ward inside the

  • Sierra Inn Dining Facility wins AMC Hennessy, competes at AF-level

    While serving a Thanksgiving meal to Airmen Nov. 23, Col. Steve Arquiette, 60th Air Mobility Wing commander, had some good news to tell the employees at the Sierra Inn Dining Facility. "He was in the middle of serving food to the troops here, when he told everyone to stop so he can make an

  • Climbing Wall pushes limits

    It has all the drama of an action movie without the high ticket prices. The Indoor Climbing Wall at the Outdoor Recreation Center can provide anyone on Travis with a safe, exciting way to get some strength training. "The Wall," which, at it's highest point is 25 feet tall, gives anyone who is

  • Operation Brown Bag nets ton of food for AFRC

    Chaplain Assistants, with the help of Travis parishioners, donated more than a ton of food to the Food Pantry at the Airman and Family Readiness Center Wednesday as part of Operation Brown Bag. "There were many groups doing food drives in the area," said Tech. Sgt. Esmeralda Aharon, chaplain

  • Consider terrorist threat protection this holiday season

    Terrorism is an indiscriminate crime that comes in varying forms of threats and violence and is used primarily to attain political goals of one form or another. Terrorists generate fear through acts of violence, intimidation and coercion. As recent events have shown, terrorists have reached new

  • Annual tree lighting set for Monday

    The 60th Air Mobility Wing Chapel invites all of Team Travis and their family members to come celebrate the base's annual Christmas tree and Menorah lighting ceremony to start the holiday season. The ceremony takes place at 5 p.m. Monday on the green between Travis Boulevard and the Child

  • 60th OSS Formal Training Unit, Life Support move increases efficiency

    It was an operation that required the cooperation of five base organizations, more than seven months of planning, and the razing and renovating of three buildings. And you thought your Do-It-Yourself move was hard. The 60th Operations Support Squadron KC-10 Formal Training Unit recently moved

  • 60th OSS victorious again

    The 60th Operations Support Squadron reached their 11th strait victory defeating the 15th Air Mobility Operations Squadron, 27 to 6. The 60th OSS dominated the first half starting with receiver Ryan Habbeshaw's interception. Habbeshaw caught the ball then pitched it to Royce Mace, 60th OSS safety,

  • 60th LRS competes for Daedalian honor

    The 60th Logistics Readiness Squadron has been selected as one of three finalists for the 2006 Headquarters Air Mobility Command Major General Warren R. Carter Logistics Effectiveness Daedalian Award for a second year in a row. The Daedalian award is given to the best Logistics Readiness Squadron