• 6th ARS grants local child's wish

    The 6th Air Refueling Squadron granted a local boy's wish by making him a "Pilot for a Day" in the United States Air Force. Mitchell Louie, of San Carlos, Calif., who is battling Gliolastoma Spinal Cancer, got the chance to become a KC-10 Extender pilot Monday as part of the Pilot for a Day program.

  • Power outage to affect base

    A base-wide power outage is scheduled for Aug. 25 from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. The blackout, which will affect all base housing residents and a number of facilities, is necessary to fix an electrical line that provides power to the base. A number of services will remain open with limited power. The Base

  • Thrift store spruces up appearance

    The sun whispers through the windows. A line of clothes carries the eye from one end of the store to the other. Books, dishes and knick-knacks are neatly arranged on shelves with cardboard signs hanging from nearby walls indicating which section it is. One man inspects a VCR in the store's

  • Air Force announces E-5 selections

    The Air Force has selected 15,130 of 36,608 eligible senior airmen for promotion to staff sergeant, a 41.33 percent selection rate. Congratulations to the following Team Travis senior airmen who have been selected for promotion to staff sergeant: 6th Air Refueling Squadron Aaron Burk Derek Grant

  • Leisure Travel branches out

    What are three things any business must have in order to be successful? Location, location, location. To better serve their customers, the Leisure Travel Annex branched out to the Base Exchange, next to Baskin Robins. The agency still has an office at the less known location at the Outdoor

  • Travis continues building C-17 infrastructure, other projects

    As lights hang from a line to illuminate one of the building's major hallways, painters spray and coat walls while contractors work to tape cracks in drywall in anticipation of the painters' progress.At least $20 million worth of C-17-related construction projects are in various stages of completion

  • Fire Prevention encourages Team Travis to properly discard smoking materials

    With California currently experiencing its worst fire conditions in three decades, the Travis Fire Department would like to remind everyone to be careful around the base. The base has large expanses of natural wild land that is extremely dry. A carelessly thrown cigarette butt or ash flicked from

  • AFOSI to host recruitment day

    The Air Force Office of Special Investigations, Detachment 303, is hosting a recruiting day Aug. 31 at 8 a.m., in Bldg. 373. They are seeking motivated personnel who would like to apply to become AFOSI Special Agents. AFOSI has been the Air Force's major investigative service since Aug. 1, 1948. The

  • 15th AMOS prepares for combat employment readiness exercise

    The 15th Air Mobility Operations Squadron is gearing up for U.S. Forces Korea's largest annual combined warfighting exercise, Ulchi Focus Lens. UFL began in 1975 and has evolved into the world's largest computerized command and control exercise. This annual training exercise combines forces from all