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  • 689th CCW welcomes new commander

    The 689th Combat Communications Wing said goodbye to its first commander and welcomed its second Wednesday. In a ceremony at the Museum of Aviation, Col. Joseph Scherrer accepted command from Col. Theresa Giorlando. He will now lead the wing which stood up in 2009. "Excited doesn't capture it,"

  • ASD paves way for Helos

    At the entrance to a conference room in Bldg. 300 is a plaque with the words "In Memory of Pedro 66." It tells the story of what happened in Afghanistan on June 9, 2010, when a rocket-propelled grenade struck an Air Force Sikorsky HH-60G Pave Hawk on a medical evacuation mission. "Pedro 66" was the

  • HVM concept gets new wings

    High Velocity Maintenance is an innovative concept in aircraft maintenance taking hold at Robins, but it doesn't have to be confined to the flightline. Maj. Gen. Robert McMahon, Warner Robins Air Logistics Center commander, said its tenets apply to everything being done at Robins. One of the leaders

  • Maintainers foster Team Spirit with aircrews

    A unique customer-relations program employed for years by the F-15 maintenance section at Robins is expanding into other platforms. With each F-15 here for programmed depot maintenance in the 561st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, the plane's crew chief is invited to spend a couple of days learning

  • Retired general focuses on unity

    Bridging racial and cultural gaps in America can be a complex matter, but for civil rights hero Maj. Gen. (ret.) Joseph McNeil, the answer is on the back of a nickel. The Latin phrase printed there, "E pluribus unum," means "From many, one.""That's our challenge. Even though we are culturally

  • Maintainers train for the worst

    Maintainer-volunteers at Robins are training for a mission they hope they will never have to perform. The Crash Damaged or Disabled Aircraft Recovery Team is on 24-hour standby to recover F-15, C-130, C-5 and C-17 aircraft in the event of an accident, said Senior Master Sgt. Thomas Clater, 402nd

  • Officer awarded prestigious combat medals

    Capt. Jordan Lindeke tools around in a car with a Purple Heart license plate, but she doesn't usually get the credit for it."Everyone thinks it's for my father or husband," said Lindeke, who in December suffered hearing and memory loss in a suicide bomb blast in Afghanistan. "Nobody ever thinks it's

  • Labor agreement approval delayed

    Issues over language have led to a delay in the approval of the 2011 Master Labor Agreement. Approval of the agreement between Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command and the American Federation of Government Employees was delayed by the Department of Defense Civilian Personnel Management Service.

  • 402nd MXW gets new leader

    Col. Evan Miller says two aircraft at the Museum of Aviation give him a deeper sense of purpose for his new job as commander of the 402nd Maintenance Wing. After taking command of the wing Wednesday from Brig. Gen. Lee Levy, Miller noted a B-1 Lancer and B-57 Canberra are among the museum's

  • Command chief awarded Bronze Star

    Before he became command chief of the 78th Air Base Wing and the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, Chief Master Sgt. Patrick Bowen had a big job at Al Udeid Air Base in Southwest Asia. From Sept. 8, 2008 to Sept. 4, 2009, he was superintendent of the 379th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron - the