• Team Travis Receives Congressional Commendation

    Travis Air Force Base held its second State of the Base event Feb. 11, 2022. The event, hosted by Col. Corey Simmons, 60th Air Mobility Commander, serves as a platform to provide key constituents with an open and transparent “behind-the-scenes” look into Travis AFB and encompasses high-level

  • Special Needs Taskforce celebrates the month of love with EFMP families

    The Exceptional Family Member Program Special Needs Taskforce hosts the annual Valentine’s Day event for EFMP families at the Airmen and Family Readiness Center, Travis Air Force Base, California, Feb. 4, 2022. The Travis Special Needs Task Force is an advocacy group that coordinates special events,

  • Travis AFB trains together with USMC

    The 21st Airlift Squadron assigned to Travis AFB and the 6th Airlift Squadron assigned to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst Air Force Base, New Jersey, participated in a joint training High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) Rapid Aerial Insertion (HIRAIN) mission with U.S. Marines assigned

  • Brothers reunited at Travis AFB

    On Jan. 4, 2018 Senior Airman Bradyn Harper, 660th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron KC-10 Extender crew chief, starts his military career like most, away from family and friends, until his brother Senior Airman Dylan Harper arrived here as a loadmaster with the 22nd Airlift Squadron and the brothers

  • Monarch DFAC leads the way in automating food preparation

    Travis Air Force Base’s Monarch dining facility is the first in the DOD to acquire “Alfred," an automated food preparation robot designed to improve production and quality of operations, reduce food waste and lower risks of viral and microbial transmissions.

  • Travis supports JBPHH, delivers water treatment systems

    Airmen from the 60th Aerial Port Squadron loaded approximately 155,000 pounds of water treatment systems and activation equipment onto a C-5M Super Galaxy and C-17 Globemaster III, respectively, Dec. 16, 2021, at Travis Air Force Base, California, in support of the U.S. Transportation Command Red

  • Santa’s back-up sleigh: A C-5M Super Galaxy

    Though not powered by magical reindeer nor loaded by elves, the C-5M Super Galaxy has proven through a bevy of mobility missions over the past six months that if something should ever happen to Santa’s sleigh, the airframe could serve as a worthy back-up.The C-5, nicknamed “FRED-ex,” boasts an