• 60th SFS safely, securely evacuates Team Travis families

    As a red sun shrouded in smoke began to disappear for the day, Aug. 19, a noise that sounded like a toddler mashing a bunch of numbers on a phone echoed across Travis Air Force Base. The sound rang out from the base’s loudspeaker warning system, the giant voice, and was the attention-grabbing noise

  • Wildfire forces DGMC to evacuate patients

    Members of the 60th MDS were part of a team that evacuated 20 patients from David Grant USAF Medical Center Aug. 19, after the 60th Air Mobility Wing commander issued an evacuation order for Travis AFB in response to a wildfire nearing the installation.

  • Travis family, goats escape Northern California wildfire

    In the early morning hours of Aug. 19, it was quiet in Vacaville. In the rural neighborhood of Cherry Glen Rd., ash, as though snow, gently fell along the soft breeze that offered little reprieve from the heat, which had climbed into triple digits the previous week.

  • Travis Airmen deliver COVID aid to Indonesia

    A C-17 Globemaster III manned by an aircrew from the 21st Airlift Squadron departed Travis Air Force Base Aug. 28, venturing on a four-day mission to deliver 500 ventilators to Jakarta, Indonesia.

  • Team Travis expedites aircraft evacuation in midst of fire emergency

    As the LNU Lightning Complex Fire encroached on communities near Travis Air Force Base Aug. 19, units across the 60th and 349th Air Mobility Wings here, rallied to evacuate the base’s fleet of C-17 Globemaster III, C-5M Super Galaxy and KC-10 Extender aircraft to safeguard them against the impending

  • The 433rd Airlift Wing welcomes Travis aircraft during California wildfires

    In the late evening hours of Aug. 19, the Tanker Airlift Control Center at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, notified the 433rd Airlift Wing command post here that eight C-5M Super Galaxy aircraft from Travis Air Force Base, California, would be evacuating to the airfield here as a precaution against