Air Force Tech. Sgt. Grace Joy Barce was named noncommissioned officer of the year for the 361st Recruiting Squadron. She is the daughter of Concepcion Barce of Vallejo. Air Force Reserve Airman Eric Medina graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. Medina is the son of Margarita Fierros [...]
FAIRFIELD — Marine Lt. Col. Timothy Burton, a former Fairfield resident, was awarded the Bronze Star in December for service commanding an unmanned aerial vehicle squadron in Afghanistan as part of the Second Marine Expeditionary Force from May 2011 through November 2011, according to the Department of Defense. Burton moved to Fairfield in 1976 with [...]
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — Actor Gary Sinise is on a mission to perform at all U.S. military bases. He’ll soon be able to cross Travis Air Force Base off that list. Sinise and his 12-member Lt. Dan Band will perform March 3 in one the base’s hangars. “We are really looking forward to it [...]
Army National Guard Spec. Archie Faulk Jr. returned to the United States after being deployed overseas at a forward operating base to serve in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. He is the son of Rosemary Vasquez of Vacaville. Air Force Reserve Airman Justin Flavel graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in San [...]
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — When Lt. Col. Joseph Dingman looks at the World War II-era C-47 Skytrain transport like the ones that his 21st Airlift Squadron predecessors flew to drop supplies to American and Australian troops deep in the jungles of New Guinea, he says he can’t help but be impressed with how those [...]
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — Lt. Dan is coming to Travis and he is bringing his band with him. Actor Gary Sinise and the Lt. Dan Band will be at Travis to perform March 3 for Air Force service members and their families in one of the hangars as part of his ongoing support for [...]
FAIRFIELD — Former Travis Air Force Base commander Brig. Gen. Mark Dillon is one of 25 brigadier generals nominated by President Barack Obama to get their second star, according to an announcement by Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta in Washington, D.C. Dillon serves as director of regional affairs for the Deputy Undersecretary of the Air [...]
Army Pvt. Kyle Crabtree graduated from One Station Unit Training at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. Crabtree is the son of Nicole Jamison of Vacaville. He is a 2008 graduate of Winters High School. Army Pvt. Richard Guffey graduated from basic combat training at Ft. Jackson Army Base in Columbia, S.C. He is the son of Ron [...]
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — Travis believes in fitness. It also believes in not wasting all that human energy expended during a workout. Travis’ fitness center has connected 10 elliptical machines to the base’s power grid through a system that converts the exerciser’s energy into electricity and gives Air Mobility Command its first human-powered gym. [...]
WASHINGTON — Tens of thousands of California jobs are at stake as the Pentagon rolls out plans to reduce its budget for the first time since the 1990s. Though California is far less dependent on defense dollars than it was two decades ago, when drastic cuts cost the state nearly 500,000 jobs, communities from Fairfield [...]
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — The Air Force’s proposed Force Structure Changes, announced Friday, included no mention of Travis Air Force Base, its squadrons or its aircraft. But, cautioned the base’s public affairs office, this is only one step in a long process that the Air Force is going through to streamline and modernize its [...]
Air Force Airman Chelsea Boe graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. Boe is the daughter of Loralee Boe of Vacaville. She is a 2009 graduate of Vacaville Christian High School. Air Force Reserve Airman 1st Class Francisco Vidal III graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force [...]
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