• Use mouthguards to protect smile

    Each year, thousands of teens get hurt on the playing field, the basketball court, or while skateboarding, biking or during other activities. Blows to the face in nearly every sport can injure teeth, lips, cheek and tongue. A properly fitted mouth guard, or mouth protector, is an important piece of

  • Reading program gives kids Head Start

    Today marks the end of the Raising a Reader program for the children enrolled at the Travis Head Start pre-school. The program, which began Feb. 1, is a take-home book bag program that helps promote reading among pre-school age children. The children take a bag of four to five books home for a week,

  • Battling biting bugs - a common summertime task at Travis

    Insect bites and stings are common occurrences during the summer months and can be very bothersome and even dangerous. By understanding insect behavior, most encounters with these little terrors can be avoided. Mosquitoes: they feed primarily at dawn and dusk. They are usually found within a few

  • Aircraft Parts processes for C-17 arrival

    The Aircraft Parts Store has seen their workload double in the past month due to the up-coming C-17 bed down. They have received and logged more than 11,800 C-17 parts from the Defense Logistics Agency alone. They have also received 15,976 parts from Boeing. More incredibly, they have achieved 100

  • Motivated to perform her duty, one air traffic controller beats cancer

    The Airman leans over the console in the control tower 13 stories in the air and directs planes along the Travis runway. It was her desire to do this job that helped her beat thyroid cancer. Senior Airman Anna Ortiz, 60th Operation Support Squadron, was pregnant with her second child when she

  • Efficient thermostat settings saves energy, base money

    Travis’ policy for energy conservation mandates that thermostats be set to 68 degrees in the winter and 78 degrees in the summer. Seventy-eight degrees in the summer months may seem warm for Travis members that are used to much cooler indoor temperatures. Likewise, 68 degrees in the winter may seem