• 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 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

  • Travis joins local community in honoring veterans

    Amid the cheers and applause, 142 members of Team Travis marched down Kentucky Street as part of the City of Fairfield's sixth annual Veterans Day Parade Nov. 11. Members from the 60th Air Mobility Wing, 349th AMW and the 615th Contingency Response Wing participated in this year's parade, marching

  • Travis chosen to be first AMC installation to implement VPP safety program

    Team Travis has been selected to be the first Air Mobility Command base to implement the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Voluntary Protection Program in an effort to reduce the number of preventable work-related injuries and illnesses. According to the National Safety Council,

  • Travis Firefighters world champions for third straight year

    Not even a rain-slick course could stop Team Travis firefighters from earning their third consecutive World Firefighter Combat Challenge, held here Nov. 7 to 11."It was the toughest dog fight I ever saw and the team rose to the occasion," said John Speakman, Travis Air Force Base fire chief. The