• Street Smart urges safe driving

    Laughter met with sobering reality. That's the concept of the nation-wide "Street Smart" briefing that was presented July 16 to Airmen at Travis Air Force Base."Throughout your lives you have had information beaten into you about drinking and driving and wearing a seatbelt," Oscar Duran, a

  • Travis Civic Leaders Get Taste of Space Wing Mission

    More than 40 of Travis' civic leaders and honorary commanders visited and toured Vandenberg Air Force Base's facilities July 14 to learn about the mission during a fly-away civic leader tour.The group was welcomed by 30th Space Wing leadership before heading to the Western Range Operations Control

  • US tankers support Australia exercise

    KC-10 Extender aircrews from the 60th Air Mobility Wing at Travis and 305th Air Mobility Wing at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, combined flying operations July 8 to provide air refueling support to a five-ship C-17 Globemaster III package enroute to exercise Talisman Sabre

  • Warrior of the Week: Airman 1st Class Christopher Quental

    Each week a member of the 60th Air Mobility Wing is selected as the Warrior of the Week. This individual is recognized based on superior performance, outstanding work ethic, and overall good conduct and discipline.The 60th Medical Operations Squadron chose Airman 1st Class Christopher Quental,

  • Education center plans first open house

    The Education Center at Travis Air Force Base, California, is scheduled to host its first open house from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. July 17."The effort is to raise awareness of all the educational benefits and options service members and their spouses have available on base," said Jerry South, 60th

  • APEX teaches Port Dawgs new tricks

    The U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center sent a mobile training team to Travis Air Force Base, California, from June 22 to July 10 to hold a C-5 Aerial Port Expeditor Course.APEX, a Community College of the Air Force-credited course, is designed to provide training for personnel selected to perform

  • Take caution when discarding smoking materials

    Do you remember this fire?August 24, 2008, marked a day firefighters around the county and Air Force communities would not forget anytime soon.With the carelessness of one person, a fire started off base and quickly moved through the old vacant base housing. This incident caused the destruction of

  • Month focuses on skin cancer

    Not a day goes by when I don't hear, "In my day, we didn't know about sunscreen." Truth be told, I had my share of sunburns as a kid as well.In today's world, one might expect a person's intense sun exposure to decrease. However, in a 2012 report, half of all adults ages 18 to 29 reported at least