John Gonge News Today

Two days of celebration and remembrance at Travis Air Force Base in California connected hundreds of airmen, community members and families with some of the brave former POWs who served with incredible honor and dignity under the most trying of conditions.

On Friday, the Air Force held a ceremony to commemorate the air operation that sent C-141 transport planes onto North Vietnam runways to fetch the men home.

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. John Gonge addresses a small group at a naming ceremony at Travis Air Force Base, Friday, April 9, 2021. The base’s 60th Air Mobility Wing Phoenix Spark team named its new lab in honor of Gonge, who served as 22nd Air Force commander at Travis in the 1970s. (Nicholas Pilch/U.S. Air Force file photo) New innovation facility honors retiree from Travis By Nicholas Pilch, 60th Air Mobility Wing Public Affairs TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — T...