• Contingency Response Airmen battle elements during JRTC

    Mobility Airmen from the 621st Contingency Response wing recently concluded a two week joint combat exercise at Fort Polk, La. Approximately 100 Airmen from the 570th Contingency Response Group, based at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., and 60 soldiers from the U.S Army's 689th Rapid Port Opening

  • Travis answers the call in Cuban missile crisis

    Fifty years ago this month, men and women stationed at Travis played an important role in the Cuban missile crisis. Never before, or since, has the world come closer to global nuclear war.After the Soviets built up military forces on the Communist island of Cuba, President John F. Kennedy vowed

  • Retiree appreciation day a success

    More than 550 retirees and their dependents turned out Saturday to partake in the annual Travis Retiree Appreciation Day at David Grant USAF Medical Center. The six-hour event was packed with a wide range of activities from guest speakers and vendors to an outdoor cookout with entertainment by the

  • Travis pushed to brink in Cuban Missle Crisis

    Fifty years ago this month, men and women stationed at Travis played an important role in the Cuban missile crisis, one of the pivotal events of the decades-long Cold War. Never before or since has the world come closer to global nuclear war.In the fall of 1962, the United States monitored the

  • Travis prepares for Energy Action Fair

    Travis' Energy Action Fair is scheduled to take place from 10 a.m to 2 p.m. Oct. 24 at the Travis Fitness Center as a highlight of the base's activities celebrating Energy Awareness Month.Participants will exercise on 10 elliptical machines connected to the base's power grid, which converts human

  • Breaking it again at 89 with DGMC's assistance

    Yeager... Few last names in modern Air Force history evoke as much lore, legacy, respect and admiration by Airmen everywhere as this local living legend. Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles "Chuck" Yeager retraced history Sunday, 65 years to the minute, as the first test pilot to break the sound

  • Retiree appreciation day a success

    More than 550 retirees and their dependents turned out Saturday to partake in the annual Travis Retiree Appreciation Day at David Grant USAF Medical Center. The six-hour event was packed with a wide range of activities from guest speakers and vendors to an outdoor cook out with entertainment by the

  • Glow Golf at Cypress Lakes

    Travis' golf course will glow when it hosts its first "Spooktacular Night of Golf at Cypress Lakes" event at 6:30pm Oct. 27.Located only four miles from the North Gate, Cypress Lakes Golf Course will offer nine holes of glow-in-the-dark golf, a kid's event room, hot dogs and burgers, costume

  • CRW hones skills during Soaring Angel

    When the call comes for support, the men and women of the 621st Contingency Response Wing continue to respond effectively to crises in some of the most remote and austere areas of the globe. But what if that call is a request to open up a forward-operating base in the Middle East to assist follow-on

  • Travis to host naturalization celebration

    How many of us who were born in the United States have ever seriously thought about how fortunate we are? Because of our birthright, we are automatically granted rights and privileges that individuals from other countries yearn to have. "I sought my U.S. citizenship because my mother came to the