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584th CSS has winning VPP recipe: Safety with a sprinkle of humor

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  • By Wayne Crenshaw
  • 78 ABW/PA
One unit at Robins has found a creative way to promote personal safety to its members.

The Twyla & Chuck Morning Show, a weekly 15-minute program, is hosted by Twyla South and Chuck Wheeler, and produced by Mike Miller. All three are assigned to the 584th Combat Sustainment Squadron's Tech Data Flight.

Miller, a music producer in his spare time, uses his own sound equipment to record the show.

"We've got the two funniest people on the planet," he said, of South and Wheeler. "You forget you are listening to a safety program because they are so funny."

The program doesn't actually go out over the radio but is posted on Monday on the organization's intranet site. To date, the trio has recorded four episodes.

Although the show has only been out for a short time and been heard by a limited number of listeners (the flight has 72 personnel), it has gotten a lot of attention.

"We've actually had people come to us and say they want to be on the show," he said. "Everyone who hears it seems to like it." The team's ultimate goal is to land Maj. Gen. Polly Peyer, Warner Robins Air Logistics Center commander, as a guest on the show. South and Wheeler had a compelling guest on the show recorded Friday.

Steve McCartney, an engineering technician at Robins, told a gripping story of how he was nearly paralyzed for life after falling off a ladder at home.

Doctors feared he would not walk again, but he did and returned to work a few months later.

He said he hopes people learn from his mistake.

He was trying to cut down a tree limb when it snapped and he fell.

During the same episode, the hosts had Karen Lewis, the unit's VPP representative, as a guest. Lewis used the platform to announce the Tech Data Flight had earned gold in the Commander's Safe Site Challenge.

"A lot of hard work went into it," said Lewis.