After 30 years of service at Travis Air Force Base, the training flight of KC-10 Extender Tail No. 001948 was one of the last for the base's KC-10 fleet.

It is one of the few KC-10s left at Travis and, in less than a month, it will be flown to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona where it will be stored along with hundreds of other aircraft.

“When you go down there and see the airplanes, it’s cool, but sad at the same time,” boom operator and instructor Master Sgt. Danny Fortier of the 70th Air Refueling Squadron said, who was in the aircrew that delivered a previous Travis KC-10 there.

Travis is the last active-duty wing to operate the KC-10, which is being replaced by the KC-46 Pegasus air tanker, some of which are already flying missions with Travis aircrew.

The mixed 60th Air Mobility Wing/349th Air Mobility Wing crew flew the KC-10 over the Northern California and Southern Oregon recently.

Anthony Ivy, 32, who had served 12 years in prison, was preparing for his early-morning release when his name came over the speaker on Monday.

He didn't hear it. Someone else told him.

A few hours later, he was getting a hearty reception in a parking lot across from the prison.

The crowd included his wife, Vivian Ivy, who picked him up; his cousin Mandrell Knight and instructors from the prison's Uncuffed program where Ivy participated. It teaches podcasting and DJ skills.

For those incarcerated, there was a limited audience until 2012, when journalists from KALW and the podcast Life of the Law began teaching radio workshops at San Quentin Prison.

In 2018, the program expanded to California State Prison, Solano with funding from the California Arts Council.

A year later, the Uncuffed podcast was launched, offering the ability to reach national and international audiences.

The podcasts included coverage of Covid-19 during the pandemic.

Last year, California State Prison, Solano launched a DJ program at California State Prison, Solano and the Uncuffed Playlist, California’s first music show hosted by incarcerated people and broadcast on public airwaves.

Recently, an Uncuffed audio celebration was held, offering those incarcerated to show family the new skills they were acquiring.