Travis NCO deployed to Southwest Asia to manage KC-10 maintenance ops

Staff Sgt. Michael Latiolais is an aerospace maintenance journeyman for KC-10 Extender aircraft at a non-disclosed base here.Sergeant Latiolais is deployed with the 380th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron's Extender aircraft maintenance unit and is deployed from the 660th Aircraft

615th CRW conducts EDRE

With hurricane season right around the corner and the wing known for operating at the tip of the mobility spear anywhere in the world across the contingency spectrum as America's 9-1-1 airbase opening force, the 615th Contingency Response Wing conducted an Emergency Disaster Response Exercise May 18

DGMC offers better speech and hearing

Approximately 21 million Americans from infants to adults suffer from hearing loss. Hearing loss often goes undiagnosed for years until a person realizes they are missing many sounds of daily life. With May designated as Better Speech and Hearing Month, the members of David Grant USAF Medical Center

Bagram Nurses and Medical Technicians

AMC Commander: Memorial Day – Take Time to Pause and Reflect

As we all prepare to observe Memorial Day, let me first thank you for your extraordinary dedication and contributions to our nation and this Command. Whatever the challenge, you continually answer the call and perform your mission with incredible distinction and courage. Speaking of courage, I ask

Annual derby gives base youth a chance to ... Go Fish

Travis senior airman, Columbus native, ensures KC-10 crews are 'information ready' for combat missions

When a KC-10 Extender crew is getting ready for a combat air refueling mission, Senior Airman Christoffer Gillis is on hand to give the latest information on what they might expect and to better prepare them information-wise on their mission.Airman Gillis is an operations intelligence journeyman

Always ready: U.S. Coast Guard Strike Force gets lift from Air Force Reserve wing at Travis

With a display of joint cooperation and capability that depends upon rapid deployment of resources, Team Travis partnered with the U.S. Coast Guard May 2, to get desperately needed equipment to the oil-ravaged waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Although they normally truck equipment to disaster-stricken

Breeze a factor for base

Recent weather has been confusing, with rain and thunderstorms April 29 conflicting with high temperatures reaching 80 just a few days later.As the calendar crawls forward and spring turns into summer, the rise in temperatures comes with a phenomenon highly familiar to those in the weather flight at

Travis sergeant featured in recital

Tech. Sgt. Mechele Newell is passionate about science and music. But it's her passion for classical music that will be on display May 7 when Ms. Alina's Music Studio presents the sixth annual performance of "The Ride of Enchantment."The show, which is free and open to the public, takes place at 6:30