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  • Maintenance University instructors educate thousands

    Drive by the corner of Ninth Street and Robins Parkway, and you may notice a quiet, unassuming brick building with a sign out front which reads: Robins Maintenance University. Inside resides the 373rd Training Squadron, Detachment 6, one of 47 Air Education and Training Command field training

  • Team Robins to commemorate 64th Air Force birthday, 70th anniversary of base

    The official name of Robins Air Force Base may have changed repeatedly since its beginning in 1941, but its mission has remained the same - to care for and develop some of the finest Airmen and airpower capabilities in the Air Force. To celebrate its history during the past seven decades, there will

  • New implementation date to register with DBIDS

    The new implementation date for the Defense Biometric Identification System is Oct. 1. Those not registered must do so now in order to remain eligible for base access. To do so, go to the Visitor Control Center or the Smith Center, to register into the system. If you have previously registered, it

  • 78th SFS canine laid to rest

    The 78th Security Forces Squadron's Military Working Dog Section recently lost one its valued members. Torca, a 9-year-old Belgian Malinois, assigned to the MWD section, was euthanized Aug. 25 due to medical reasons. Torca began his career at Robins in October 2004; he was a dual- trained dog

  • BiRD shuttle adds two stops

    Two new stops have been added to the Robins BiRD program, or Buses into Robins Daily. The new pick-up and drop-off locations are in front of Building 376 on Byron Street, and at the Visitor Control Center for those working near or in buildings 640 and 645, that brings the total number of on-base

  • Remote bowling balls available at Robins

    The Robins Lanes Bowling Center has two remote-controlled bowling balls available to Team Robins members as part of the Air Force Wounded Warrior program. Dan Bueno, bowling center manager, noted that the bowling balls have received positive feedback from the community, particularly from those with

  • Robins to conduct ORE next week

    Team Robins will kick off an operational readiness exercise Monday.During Phase 1 of the exercise, which runs through Sept.16, you can expect to see some command and control activities and emergency management-type exercises, along with the processing of personnel and cargo as Robins undergoes the

  • Base holds high velocity acquisition lean event

    Robins conducted a Center-wide High Velocity Acquisition Lean event Aug. 22 through 26 in Bldg. 301. The purpose of the event was to identify improvement strategies in sustainment and acquisition processes. "This is a fresh start, to take a look at what has changed in the process," Steven

  • Robins combat communications Airman, fiancée win $70K wedding

    There will be no justice of the peace, no flip flops on the beach and no Elvis-inspired weekend wedding fling in Vegas.When Airman 1st Class Christopher Farrell and Amanda Walker get married, it will be in a quaint, but beautiful chapel on the campus of Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Ga., with the

  • Distinguished aircraft retires, to be displayed at museum

    A 47-year old C-130E transport that has flown hundreds of combat and humanitarian missions around the world made its last flight Tuesday and will be retired and displayed at the Museum of Aviation at Robins. The aircraft's final flight had a rather personal connection to Warner Robins - the