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The newly-activated 22d Air Force (successor to the Western Transport Air Force of the Military Air Transport Service) at Travis became the new parent organization for the 60th. [ 2 ] Flying the C-124 Globemaster IIs , the C-130 Hercules , the C-141A Starlifter , and the C-133 Cargomaster , the 60th entered service while the US was beginning a ...
Travis AFB has been the target of repeated protests by activists group such as Code Pink in protest of US support for Israel. On December 28, 2023 14 activists were arrested at Travis AFB for blockading every entrance into the base. [19] On March 14, 2024 5 activists associated with CodePink were arrested for blocking the North Gate to Travis ...
On 1 July 1966, the USAF Hospital at Travis AFB was designated David Grant USAF Medical Center in honor of the late Major General David Norvell Walker Grant, USAAF, MC (1891–1964), the first Surgeon General of the Army Air Corps and U.S. Army Air Forces. The medical center was a wing-equivalent as well as a tenant on Travis AFB.
The Army & Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES, also referred to as The Exchange and post exchange/PX or base exchange/BX) provides goods and services at U.S. Army, Air Force, and Space Force installations worldwide, operating department stores, convenience stores, restaurants, military clothing stores, theaters and more nationwide and in more than 30 countries and four U.S. territories.
The 621st Contingency Response Wing (621 CRW) is a United States Air Force rapid response expeditionary wing, based out of the McGuire Air Force Base entity of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey and Travis Air Force Base, California highly-specialized in training and rapidly deploying personnel globally to quickly open airfields and establish, expand, sustain, and coordinate air ...
The wing was first activated as a reserve organization at Hamilton Air Force Base California in June 1949 as the 349th Troop Carrier Wing, [1] when Continental Air Command (ConAC) converted its reserve flying organizations under the wing base organization, which combined them with their support organizations under a single wing.
Luke Air Force Base: 21 AMU "Gamblers," 61 AMU "Top Dogs," 62 AMU "Spikes," 63rd AMU "Panthers," and 425th AMU "Black Widows". [19] 57th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron: 57th Maintenance Group, 57th Wing: Nellis Air Force Base [20] 60th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron: 60th Maintenance Group, 60th Air Mobility Wing: Travis Air Force Base [21]
The unit is stationed at Travis Air Force Base, California. The 349 OG controls all operational flying squadrons of the 349 AW. The unit's World War II predecessor unit, the 349th Troop Carrier Group was a C-46 Commando transport unit assigned to Ninth Air Force in Western Europe.