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  • Marines heading to desert

    Marines and their distinctive uniforms have become a common sight around Robins, but they won't be seen much during the next four weeks.Aside from a few administrative personnel, members of Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 773 and Marine Aircraft Group 49 Detachment A will head Tuesday to the

  • Robins driving campaign focuses on perils of the road

    Right now would be a good time to make sure you have your proof of insurance and registration in your car.Starting Monday, the 78th Air Base Wing Security Forces Squadron will be conducting its annual Take Back Our Roads Campaign. It will conduct random police checkpoints at which drivers must show

  • Opening to help C-130 workload

    Brig. Gen. Lee Levy, 402nd Maintenance Wing commander, isn't one to put much stock in superstition. On Friday, May 13, he cut the ribbon on the wing's newest facility, a $24.1 million hangar for C-130s. "Today, Friday the 13th, is a lucky day because it's the day we cut the ribbon on this

  • Faster, healthier stripping process 'takes off' in sheet metal flight

    Reducing an 80-hour sanding process to strip a radome to about a 12-hour chemical-stripping process is a success story. Not only does it help get the asset back to the warfighter quicker, but it also contributes to a safer and healthier work environment. The change came as a result of the

  • 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

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