• 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

  • Children respond to the Month of the Military Family

    In honor of the Month of the Military Child, the Airman and Family Readiness Center asked children on base to draw what it means to them to be part of the military family. Hannah Pavlisin, 10, daughter of Col. James and Lt. Col. Pennie Pavlisin, likes being part of a military family because she gets

  • Former Vietnam POW visits Travis

    Lt. Col. (ret.) Barry Bridger, a former Vietnam prisoner of war, visited Travis Nov. 18 to share his experiences as a former POW in the infamous Hanoi Hilton prison. On Jan. 23, 1967, Colonel Bridger was shot down over the city of Son Tay, North Vietnam by a surface-to-air missile. "It was during my

  • Former prisoner of war to speak to Team Travis members

    A Vietnam-era prisoner of war is scheduled to speak to Airmen here Nov. 17 from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Lt. Col. (ret) Barry Bruton Bridger was captured in North Vietnam on Jan. 23, 1967 after his F-4 Phantom aircraft was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. He spent the next six years in a