Eagle grounded by bird strike

Anyone who doubts birds pose a danger to aircraft should pay a visit to one of the F-15 hangars here. Mechanics there are engaged in a major and unusual repair resulting from a bird strike last August. An F-15E from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., was participating in an exercise near Shaw

New maintenance hangar opens today

The ribbon will be cut today on an 86,000 sq. ft., $24.1 million maintenance hangar which has been six years in the making. While it will be a few days before the first wrench is turned in the facility because equipment and other materials must be moved in and set up, when it's fully operational the

Full MSG-3 implementation signals end to legacy PDM

Had you taken a walk around the Robins flightline in October 2009, you could have counted a record 17 C-5s parked here. For those who don't know, that's a bad thing. It meant nearly one of every seven C-5s in the Air Force inventory was here for work and unavailable to the airlift community. Today,

Round Robins Express II hits the road

Round Robins Express, the sequel, debuted Thursday. Prompted by requests from organizations in buildings where parking is scarce, the base is reviving its parking lot shuttle system, calling it Round Robins Express II. John Pugh, 78th Mission Support Group deputy director, said the free service will

Riders participate in See Me, Save Me Ride

Combat communicators sharpen skills at readiness school

More than 25 Airmen from the 5th Combat Communications Group recently graduated from an intense three-week course designed to hone their combat skills. Combat Readiness School course graduates learn a variety of combat skill sets to include convoy tactics, land navigation, ground base defense,

4 airlifters help tame massive Mexican wildfires

The venerable C-130 performs a wide array of missions, but one of its lesser known uses is fighting wildfires. The aircraft, for which Robins does heavy maintenance and life cycle management, has been busy in recent days fighting wildfires in Mexico, just over the Texas border. The firefighting

3 transports damaged by tornado in Arkansas

A team of engineers from Robins spent the last week at Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., assessing three C-130s damaged by a tornado. The four-man team from the Aerospace Sustainment Directorate's Tactical Airlift Division evaluated the damage to help officials decide whether to scrap or repair the

First C-130J arrives for depot maintenance

C-130s fly into Robins on a regular basis for programmed depot maintenance, but one which landed April 26 is special. It's the first C-130J to come here for PDM. The J model is the newest C-130, which has been in continuous production for more than 50 years, a record for military aircraft.A team of

Security level raised

The on-going strife in the Middle East and the death of Osama bin Laden has prompted a change in the Force Protection Condition on base. At the direction of U.S. Northern Command, which sets the baseline security level for all military installations in the United States, including Robins, the FPCON