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three Travis airmen: Tech. Sgt. Ronnie Brickey, Staff Sgt. David Adkins and Staff Sgt. Brian Buhrer, all from the 60th Civil Engineer Squadron explosive ordnance disposal flight, at the base theater in January 2012. The three were injured during improvised explosive device attacks during combat missions in A fghanistan.

As part of the 466th Operating Location Bravo EOD Team 8, Adkins and Brickey responded to cries for help on their radios after hearing a detonation which killed one person and injured four others, Brickey said in Travis news item. Brickey began clearing a path to the dead and injured while Adkins began clearing an entire dirt road to provide a safe evacuation route for casualties.

Adkins and Brickey met up near an uncovered IED to formalize a plan when a soldier stepped outside the cleared area, setting off a large IED within 10 feet of them, fatally wounding the soldier and injuring seven others, including Adkins and Brickey.

Brickey was transported by medical evacuation while Adkins stayed behind to finish the render-safe procedures on the remaining IED, conduct the full post-blast investigation and evacuate remaining personnel.

Buhrer was part of the 466th Operating Location Alpha EOD Team 7 stationed in Afghanistan when he was injured. While conducting a ground combat mission route-clearance patrol, Buhrer’s mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicle was hit by a large IED explosion. Buhrer was knocked unconscious from the blast and woke up to neck, back and elbow injuries.

“Technical Sgt. Brickey, Staff Sgt. Adkins and Staff Sgt. Buhrer risked their lives to minimize the risk to others,” said Col. Dwight Sones, then-60th Air Mobility Wing commander.

Senior Airman Jeffrey Rivera, 60th Aerial Port

Squadron air transportation specialist, was also awarded a Purple Heart on July 17, 2012, for wounds suffered when he was deployed to Forward Operating Base Salerno, Afghanistan, as part of a 10-person team of porters providing aerial port services to the FOB. Rivera was walking inside the confines of the base and was injured in an explosion when insurgents attacked the base. He sustained injuries to the ear and neck in the explosion.

A decade after Travis had sent some of the first aircraft into Iraq, they were among the last out.

A Travis 21st Airlift Squadron C-17 departed Iraq on Dec. 17, 2010, with approximately 129 service members and media for Kuwait as Operation New Dawn came to a close.

“It was an honor,” Capt. Aaron Jones said in a Travis news item. “Lots of time, effort and sacrifices were put into the war. It was incredibly humbling to be the last people there. It was a high priority mission. We received a call from the tower and they let us know that the air traffic controller was getting on the jet and that he was the last guy.”

Three weeks earlier, on Nov. 29, 2011, a Travis C-17 w ith a 21st AS crew flew then-Vice President Joe Biden into Baghdad for the last time before the troop withdrawal.

As they entered Baghdad airspace, the pilots observed multiple muzzle flashes from small arms, as well as a ground explosion in front of the aircraft. Maj. Brandon Tellez, the aircraft commander, maintained a high rate of speed to escape the weapons engagement zone.

The crew spotted the airport, slowed the aircraft and landed the C-17 safely on Baghdad’s runway. Before leaving, Biden walked to the cockpit and thanked the crew for flying him. Hansen handed the vice president a 21st AS Beeliners hat. Biden walked off the plane into the awaiting press pool proudly wearing his 21st Airlift Squadron hat.

Following his meetings with the president of Iraq and the prime minister – and after a dedication at Camp Victory, the crew picked up Biden and flew the vice president to Irbil Airfield, where the Kurdish regional president was waiting to meet him.

Travis’ part in the War on Terror unexpectedly moved to France in August 2015 when Travis Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone, a Sacramento native, gained international fame. While on a train to Paris, Stone, two friends and three other passengers subdued a heavily armed Moroccan terrorist. Honored by French president with the Legion of Honor, promoted to Staff Sgt., Stone was awarded the Airman’s Medal here, and played himself in Clint Eastwood’s movie, “The 15:17 to Paris.”

The Air Force’s Lance P. Sijan Leadership Award was awarded t 0 21 A irlift Squadron pilot Capt. David Plachno in April 2017 for his leadership as a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft commander and deployed United Nations military observer from July 1, 2014, to June 30, 2015, in South Sudan. During that time, his leadership led to the survival and relocation of 100,000 d isplaced refugees during the African nation’s civil war and emergency.

Plachno led a team of 14 i nternational field-grade officers, enabling the employment of $1.1 billion in aviation assets from nine countries to supply 14 m illion pounds of supplies to U.N. staff members and refugees.

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Travis provided airlift air refueling support for the campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant since the beginning of ISIL’s offensive in 2014. The base played an even more pivotal role in May 2016 during the coalition forces’ offensive to retake Mosul, Iraq, when 60th Aerial Port Squadron aerial porters loaded U.S. Army Bridge Erection Boats and bridges onto C-5M Super Galaxies to assist in rebuilding damaged bridges in Mosul.

“During the bridge movement, (U.S. Transportation Command) looked at Travis and made the decision to completely move everything out of Northern California because of the base’s capabilities,” said Lt. Col. Brian Tavernier, 60th Operations Group deputy commander in a news item. “Travis had a capable port, the aircraft to move the cargo and the crews available to get it where it needed to go.”

Airmen from the 60th Operations Support Squadron and the 22nd Airlift Squadron delivered the boats and bridges, which totaled more than 750,000 pounds. The 60th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron assisted the 60th APS around the clock to plan outbound cargo loads and preload spare aircraft in case of delays. They also airlifted more than 250,000 pounds of ammunition and riot gear.

Travis-based members of the 621st Contingency Response Wing spent late 2016 at the Qayyarah West Airfield, just 30 m iles southwest of Mosul, where they enabled and sustained air operations at the Coalition airfield. During that time, the air traffic control team coordinated with and controlled anywhere from 40 to 50 a ircraft a day.

“This is unique because we did not have an established air traffic control tower to operate out of,” said Capt. Jacob Becker, 921st Contingency Response Squadron airfield operations officer. “We were not only coordinating with our sister services, but other countries as well to ensure the airspace was safe.”

Afghanistan was still part of Travis’ mission mix throughout the decade with missions such as a June 2017 m ission that saw a Travis aircrew fly a C-17 i nto Bagram Airfield to medevac five U.S. Army special operators who were wounded in an insider attack at Camp Shaheen, in the northern city of Maza r-i-Sharif.

79th ARS participated in an En-route Support Trailing Aircraft mission that followed the Coronet East mission in October 2017.

The mission involved escorting F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft from Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. The mission required the KC-10s to carry the support equipment and personnel for the deployment of the fighter aircraft as opposed to only escorting aircraft in a standard Coronet mission.

“We delivered 61,000 pounds of cargo and nine passengers to Bagram in support of the 20th Fighter Wing’s deployment,” said Capt. Ross Jardis, 60th Operations Group executive officer and aircraft commander for the mission. “This mission is not typically performed by KC-10s, so it had a bit of a different feel to it.”

Travis’ airlifters opened the decade with flying humanitarian relief to Haiti after its recent earthquake, flying the first C-17 Globemaster there, carrying cargo that included an urban search-and-rescue team that the aircraft picked up at March AFB.

“The first few hours are the most critical to find survivors,” said Capt. Chris Ross, a C-17 pilot with the 21st Airlift Squadron in a Travis new items. “Without immediate response the survivor rate would decrease vastly. Our combat controllers secured the airfield and controlled the airspace making it possible to provide support.”

The base’s humanitarian global reach also covered the Pacific with its involvement in Operation Pacific Passage in

March 2011, when Travis airlifters flew military members and their families as well as men, women and children, and 150 family pets from Japan to Travis after that country was struck by a magnitude-9.0 earthquake on March 11, 2011.

A September 2017 earthquake in Mexico City saw a Travis C-17 deliver 67 U.S. Agency for International Development elite disaster team members and five canines along with equipment and medica l supplies.

“The men and women of the USAR needed to get to Mexico to support the search and rescue operations after the earthquake,” said Capt. Kyle Brackett, 21st Airlift Squadron. “Helping our allies when they are in need is one of the most important things we do as a nation.”

That same month, a C-17 departed Travis to deliver a team of search and rescue personnel assigned to Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Texas Task Force 1 to Puerto Rico in support of Hurricane Irma relief efforts.

Two months later in November, the 60th Aerial Port Squadron loaded buses onto a C-5M Super Galaxy to be flown to Port Au Prince, Haiti, through the Denton Program and as part of a humanitarian effort by Those Angels, Inc. founder and Haitian Claude Joseph.

That same month, the base shipped equipment and personnel to aid the government of Argentina in its search for the ARA San Juan, an Argentine navy submarine that went missing in the Sout h Atlantic.

In March 2019, Cyclone Idai – the worst storm to hit Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi in three decades – left

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We help with Veterans’ hundreds dead, thousands displaced and many homes destroyed. Within a few days, two C-17 Globemaster III crews assigned to the 21st Airlift Squadron spent a week in Africa operating out of Djibouti, supporting relief efforts.

“We delivered 206,000 pounds of food, equipment and supplies,” said Airman 1st Class Doug Gerrity, 21st AS C-17 loadmaster, who was responsible for the safe loading and offloading of cargo onto the aircraft. “I take a lot of pride in supporting missions like this. It’s an incredibly good feeling to help people. Seeing all the damage on the ground and just how little people had when we flew in, that was pret ty moving.”

Not all the humanistarian missions were international. In May 2010, the 349th AMW worked with Coast Guard’s Pacific Strike Team to fly their equipment that included inflatable booms to oil-ravaged waters in the Gulf of Mexico.

In November 2012, Travis deployed airmen, equipment and supplies to assist relief efforts on the east coast following devastation of Hurricane Sandy. It included FEMA generators and almost 70 Southern California Edison Utility Company utility vehicles to New York state and New Jersey.

A C-5M from Travis departed May 2018 to deliver a double recirculating cement mixer trailer to the island of Hawaii to be used in support of Kilauea volcano relief efforts.

Tenants on base continued to change. Travis lost its Army artillery unit, the 402nd Field Artillery Brigade, in 2010, when that unit left for Fort Bliss, Texas, ending a 12 -year stay.

Two years later, the 615th Contingency Response Wing ceased its operations on May 29, 2012, ending seven years at Travis. The wing’s two contingency response groups would stay at Travis but would now be commanded by 621st CRW at Joint Base McGuireDix-Lakehurst, N.J.

The first infrastructure-improvement project for the decade wrapped up on Jan. 15, 2010, a new two-bay C-17 hangar that started construction in 2008, opened for operations. It was one of 22 projects the base undertook to make a home for the C-17, which had replaced the base’s C-141 Starlifter transports.

Early 2010 a lso saw Travis continue demolishing and replacing its older housing to make way for newer housing, such as tearing out and replacing officers’ housing that had been around since 1947.

David Grant Medical Center’s improvements continued with a new $1.6 m illion upgrade to its hemodialysis center in July 2010. March saw a $5.7 m illion upgrade to its Joint Radiation Oncology Center.

Ground was broken on a 16,000-square-foot second Fisher House next to David Grant in November 2013 a nd was opened in June 2014. Its smaller companion had been fully booked for four years, hosting more than 3,500 g uests.

One unusual base improvement was Air Mobility Command’s opening of the first human-powered gym with two elliptical machines at the Fitness Center being connected to the base’s power grid, converting human energy to elect ric energy.

The modernization of the C-5’s systems continued as the decade opened as the last of 38 C -5 A /B aircraft underwent modification as part of the Avionics Modernization Program at Travis. Once the engines and avionics were updated, it would become the C-5M.

In August 2014, the second fully modified C-5 a rrived at Travis, flown in by the base’s 60th operations group commander. The improvements on the C-5 i ncluded newer, quieter engines with more thrust, allowing for shorter takeoffs, faster climbs, heavier cargo loads and longer range of flights. The avionics also were upgraded to be more user and maintenance friendly, making the craft more reliable overall.

Turnover on Travis’ ever-changing roster of aircraft continued when, in

June 2016, Travis was announced as one of five candidate bases to receive the Boeing KC-46, which will replace the base’s KC-10s and revitalize Air Mobility Command’s air ta nker fleet.

In December 2018, base and community leaders broke ground on a three-bay hangar for the much-anticipated arrival of the KC-46A Pegasus tanker aircraft.

The three-bay hangar is the first and largest of several construction projects set to begin over the next few years in preparation for the arrival of the KC-46. The 174,300-square foot facility will be used for maintaining the new aerial refueling platform.

“In total, Travis is scheduled to receive 24 KC-46s through the middle of the next decade,” said Maj. Gen. Sam Barrett, 18th Air Force commander. “Those aircraft will play a vital role in providing flexibility to U.S. and Coalition forces around the world.”