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  • Robins sergeant wins service’s Geico Award

    A Robins sergeant has been honored by the Air Force for promoting base traffic safety. Master Sgt. Vincent Dewberry, who is assigned to the 78th Security Forces Squadron, recently learned he is the service's nominee for a 2009 Government Employees Insurance Company, or Geico, award. Dewberry, who is

  • Milestone: Robins delivers 200th C-17 Globemaster to warfighter

    On Tuesday Robins celebrated the completion of work on its 200th C-17 Globemaster III, but maintenance workers turned out to be too fast for the ceremony.Brig. Gen. Lee Levy, commander of the 402nd Maintenance Wing, jokingly apologized the C-17 behind the podium wasn't the milestone aircraft, as was

  • Communication key to labor, management relations

    The progress made to improve labor and management relations in the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center is due, in large part, to the close involvement of top leaders on both sides of the aisle. Capt. Nicholas Moore, a member of the labor-management relations 'connector' team, said WR-ALC Commander

  • Robins maintainer wins Marquez Award

    Benjamin Clemons, a mechanic in the 569th Electronics Maintenance Squadron, has been named a 2009 Lt. Gen. Leo Marquez Award winner as Outstanding Maintenance Person of the Year (Civilian Technician) in Air Force Materiel Command. Clemons said he is "awed" by the award, which is presented to

  • Combat communicators supporting Haiti relief

    When the call came to support relief efforts in Haiti, the 689th Combat Communications Wing answered. Eight members of the wing's 5th Combat Communications Group left Robins Sunday for the earthquake-ravaged nation. They will be joined shortly by 31 Airmen from the wing's 3rd CCG at Tinker Air Force

  • Leadership initiative making headway

    The Warner Robins Air Logistics Center is seeing some positive movement in its initiative "enhance the workforce by cultivating first-class leadership." Among other things, enrollment continues to improve in a 10-day leadership course which the initiative has helped to improve. "The course is (now)

  • Robins home to new hydrogen station

    A device which converts natural gas into hydrogen is now in operation. The Hydrogen Fuel Cell Project is one of four such projects that the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy are using to develop and test alternative fuel sources. It will provide fuel for 20 forklifts in a Defense

  • Doc’s dangerous mission saves soldier

    It took only three days for Col. (Dr.) Steve Lamb to experience what he hopes is the high point of his six-month rotation to Iraq. It happened during a mission which saved the life of a soldier, but one which could just as easily have ended his own. Lamb is the commander of the 78th Aerospace

  • Robins supporting U-2S, other Haiti relief missions

    A U-2S surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft will be flying missions from Robins in support of Operation Unified Response, the ongoing relief effort in Haiti. Advance teams and equipment arrived Monday from Beale Air Force Base, Calif., and the aircraft arrived Wednesday. Officials expect the

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