Air Force officials at Travis AFB, Calif., set to become a new home for the C-17, say they have worked with the final site activation task force. That clears the way for the planned July arrival of the Air Force’s most advanced strategic airlifter. Travis will be getting 13 of the new airlifters. They will be operated by the active-duty 60th Air Mobility Wing and Air Force Reserve Command’s 349th AMW. Additional active duty personnel—aircrews and maintainers—begin arriving in January. Travis has been working on C-17 facilities, including a $4.6 million flight simulator facility, a $8.9 million squadron operations facility for administration and maintenance shops, and an $8.1 million aircraft parts store—all of which officials expect to complete by late December. The base has other C-17-related facilities to be finished, but the SATAF found no “show stoppers” to delay the beddown of the C-17 at Travis. What’s left, says Col. Michael Cassidy, 60th Operations Group commander, is “a lot of messy staff work.”
US Space Command Should Always Be Led by a Guardian
Sept. 12, 2026
General Stephen Whiting took command of U.S. Space Command in January 2024, and if customary three-year tenures hold, his tour would end in January 2027. The question now before the President and Senate is who should follow him? Whoever they choose, it has to be a Guardian—and so should every successor…
