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  • Robins Airmen help Macon hospital in disaster exercise

    A group of Airmen at Robins volunteered to be in a building collapse last week - a theoretical one, that is. The Airmen traveled to Macon on Dec. 10 to participate in an exercise by the Medical Center of Central Georgia in which it was training to deal with mass injuries and chemical exposure. The

  • Life-like manikin helps clinic training program

    Somewhere deep in the bowels of the clinic at Robins, a patient is in trouble. Lying on a bed in a room that is about the size of a walk-in closet, he is breathing laboriously. "I feel like I could die," he moans. His vital signs, shown on a computer monitor, are badly skewed. He is in the middle of

  • Environmental stewardship driving force behind new, unique parking lot

    Parking lots don't have to be vast expanses of water-shedding, heat- reflecting pavement. A new 22-vehicle parking lot at Robins incorporates two environmentally friendly concepts intended to reduce water runoff and protect waterways from the drain-off that can come from standard parking lots. In

  • Robins EW activities play major role in Lifecycle Management Group mission

    More taxpayer dollars are being invested in electronic warfare than ever before, and the EW Lifecycle Management Group, or LCMG, is working hard to help ensure this money is being spent intelligently and prudently. The LCMG is a virtual organization led in part by the 542nd Combat Sustainment Group

  • Tech school students get hands-on experience at Museum of Aviation

    Most of the planes that come to the Museum of Aviation are a far sight from being ready for display. Upon arrival, the planes often look more like they are ready to be taken to an aircraft junkyard than to serve as representatives of aviation history. They go through a painstaking process that

  • C-27J JCA team shows off new training operations center

    A new cargo plane with short landing and takeoff capability promises to save the lives of warfighters by reducing the need for ground convoys in dangerous areas, and the pilots who will fly it will be trained here. On Wednesday officials from a broad coalition that includes Air Force, Army, industry

  • Leaders to bolster process improvement with Lean

    Improving processes is a serious matter for Col. Robert Stambaugh. So serious in fact, he is converting part of his office into a process initiative mission control room. Stambaugh has been asked by Maj. Gen. Polly Peyer, Warner Robins Air Logistics Center commander, to lead the Center's charge in

  • Team Robins members receive awards

    For more than a dozen members of Team Robins, 2009 has proven to be an award-winning year as Air Force Materiel Command announced its A1 (personnel) Functional Award winners, and the 78th Security Forces Squadron announced its nominees to compete at Air Force level. In the lineup for the awards are

  • Groundbreaking kicks off long-awaited hangar project

    Although some backhoes had already beaten them to it, Robins leaders held a groundbreaking ceremony last week for a hangar that is the last project in a 5-year, $150 million construction plan. With crews already at work in the background removing dirt from the site, a group of officials tossed some

  • Med Group's intramural football team remains unbeaten

    Picking up where it left off last year, the 78th Medical Group's intramural football team is kicking butt and taking names. Following on the heels of an undefeated 14-0 season and an intramural championship last season, the team finished the regular seasonĀ 8-0 and is the top seed in the postseason