• Red Cross to begin Dental Assistant training program

    The next session of the American Red Cross Dental Assistant Training Program will begin Jan. 22. The program consists of 1,000 hours of classroom and clinical experience over an eight month-long program. Classes will be from 6:45 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. Participants must have the

  • Legal office seeks Tax Center volunteers

    The 2006 federal tax season will be starting soon at Travis and the call for volunteers has already begun. In February, the Travis Tax Center will open its doors and offer free tax assistance to active duty members, retirees and military family members with an identification card. Volunteers are the

  • Travis Airmen spread holiday cheer to veterans

    More than 81 Team Travis Airmen decorated the Veterans Home of California in Yountville Dec. 1. The Airmen also visited veterans to socialize during the holiday season. This visit may be the only one for some veterans there -- the largest veterans' home in the country. "I suspected there wouldn't be

  • Operation Cookie Drop drops bags of treats into Airmen's hands

    Volunteers from around the base are needed this year to help bring cheer to our young Airmen during the holidays with a bag of cookies. The Travis Integrated Delivery System, Air Force Sergeants Association and the Officer's Spouses Club are teaming together to sponsor Operation Cookie Drop Dec. 20

  • Sierra Inn Dining Facility wins AMC Hennessy, competes at AF-level

    While serving a Thanksgiving meal to Airmen Nov. 23, Col. Steve Arquiette, 60th Air Mobility Wing commander, had some good news to tell the employees at the Sierra Inn Dining Facility. "He was in the middle of serving food to the troops here, when he told everyone to stop so he can make an

  • 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