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  • Labor, management efforts honored with ‘FLIP’ award

    Four Warner Robins Air Logistics Center members were honored last week with FLIP awards for their efforts to improve labor management relations. "People" is one of the Center's four focus areas under P3I, and "improve labor/management relations" is one of two initiatives under the People focus

  • Robins earns Tree City USA designation, growth award

    Robins is the winner of Tree City USA and Tree City USA Growth awards. The awards are presented by the Arbor Day Foundation in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forestry Service and the Georgia Forestry Commission. The Tree City USA designation, which Robins has earned every year

  • Air Force Assistance Fund campaign runs through April 16

    The 2010 Air Force Assistance Fund Campaign kicked off Monday. It will run through April 16. Robins' goal for the 2010 campaign is $77,204. There are four avenues contributors can choose from to help active duty, reserve, guard, and retired Air Force members and their families: the Air Force Aid

  • Sign of the times

    A group of about 20 students from Warner Robins High and teacher Polly Sheehan spent two days last month painting a mural celebrating the armed forces. The mural, which depicts military servicemembers and their families, reads "Every Day In The U.S.A. Is Armed Forces Appreciation Day." The phrase is

  • Local officer part of historic medevac mission

    An officer in the 78th Medical Group played a role in the first joint medical evacuation helicopter flight in Afghanistan. Maj. Demea Alderman is on a 6-month deployment to Bagram Airfield. He is serving as flight commander of patient administration at the airfield hospital. Alderman took part in

  • MSG-3 cleared for takeoff

    Maintainers here have finished work on the first C-5 Galaxy to undergo a process called Maintenance Steering Group 3, or MSG-3, which has been used for decades by commercial airlines to reduce aircraft downtime. The 559th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, which handles programmed depot maintenance for

  • Mechanics, engineers sought for numerous job openings

    They haven't posted a "Help Wanted" sign outside the front gates of Robins, but recruiters here are doing just about everything else to fill hundreds of job openings. Most of those jobs are related to aircraft maintenance and software engineering in the 402nd Maintenance Wing. The wing has hired 750

  • Robins readies for upcoming UCI team visit

    The much-anticipated Unit Compliance Inspection is at hand. Although not all units will be covered by the UCI, everyone at Robins could potentially play a role in its outcome. The inspection by an Air Force Materiel Command inspector general team is aimed at Warner Robins Air Logistics Center staff,

  • U-2S remains active in Haiti missions

    Maj. Rich Mehl sat in a sports car at the south end of the Robins runway and pointed at a black speck just over the horizon. The speck was a U-2S reconnaissance plane returning from an 8-hour flight over Haiti. After making sure his emergency brake was off and the car was in drive, Mehl was prepared

  • Women’s History Month celebration in full swing

    This month the National Women's History Project will celebrate its 30th anniversary. The project started the movement which resulted in March being named Women's History Month.The theme of this year's WHM observance is 'Writing women back into history.' It focuses on women's achievements which were