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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 base was renamed Travis Air Force Base in 1951 for Brigadier General Robert F. Travis, who was killed when a B-29 Superfortress crashed shortly after takeoff on 5 August 1950. The ensuing fire caused the 10,000 pounds of high explosives in the plane's cargo — a Mark 4 nuclear weapon (minus its nuclear core) — to detonate, killing ...
Tulsa, OK 1961-73: Inactive (C-97) 133d Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron: Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport, MN 1961-1967: Inactive (C-97) 133d Aeromedical Evacuation Flight: Grenier Air Force Base, NH 1961-66 Pease AFB, NH 1966-73: Inactive (C-97, C-124) 137th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 1961–73, 1986-
The 138th Fighter Wing (138 FW) is an Oklahoma Air National Guard unit stationed at Tulsa Air National Guard Base at Tulsa International Airport in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As an Air National Guard unit, the 138 FW is part of the Air Reserve Component (ARC) of the U.S. Air Force and is operationally gained by the Air Combat Command. The wing currently ...
USS Oklahoma City (CL-91) (1944–1979) – Light Cruiser. Served in World War II and the Vietnam War. Sunk as a target in 1999, southwest of Guam. [60] USS Oklahoma City (SSN-723) (1988–2022) – Nuclear powered attack submarine. Home port at Naval Base Guam. USS Tulsa (LCS-16) – Littoral Combat Ship.
99th Medical Group, Nellis Air Force Base; 55th Medical Group, Offutt Air Force Base; 21st Medical Group, Peterson Air Force Base; 21st Medical Squadron, Schriever Air Force Base; 60th Medical Group, Travis Air Force Base; 10th Medical Group, USAF Academy; 30th Medical Group, Vandenberg Air Force Base; 509th Medical Group, Whiteman Air Force Base
"The 615th Contingency Response Wing [was] one of two Contingency Response Wings assigned to the Air Force’s Air Mobility Command. Headquartered at Travis Air Force Base, California, the [wing]'s primary mission [was] to employ rapidly deployable cross-functional teams to quickly open forward airbases in an expeditionary environment to meet combatant commanders' needs.
The 60th Operations Group (60 OG) is a United States Air Force unit assigned to the 60th Air Mobility Wing.It is stationed at Travis Air Force Base, California.. Established prior to World War II, its predecessor unit, the 60th Transport (later Troop Carrier) Group engaged in combat operations, first with the Eighth Air Force and primarily with Twelfth Air Force during the war.