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  • WR-ALC Initiatives: Creating success through process innovation

    With budgets tightening throughout the Air Force, leadership is looking for ways to do more with less, including relying on process innovations to provide major improvements to the way things are done - improvements to increase warfighting capabilities while saving taxpayer dollars. "You can't just

  • Airman Magazine duo captures depot mission to share successes

    Members of the 402nd Maintenance Wing will want to be sure to snag a copy of the January/February issue of Airman Magazine when it arrives because they just might find themselves in it. A reporter and photographer from the magazine spent three days at Robins visiting many of the wing's work areas.

  • Composite Repair Flight keeps aircraft bodies in shape

    Keeping an older car in pristine condition often requires the services of a good body shop, and when it comes to the C-5 and C-17 cargo planes, the Composite Repair Flight at Robins helps fill that role. The flight works on damaged composite panels that make up portions of the body of the planes.

  • Robins EAP offers help to civilian employees in crisis

    When speaking to a group of Robins employees recently, Jamie Tillit asked how many of them had heard of the Employee Assistance Program. She didn't see many hands go up. With the time of year at hand when a rash of suicides occurred in 2008, Tillit wants people to know that there is free help

  • DoJ prosecutes first-ever tenant-landlord dispute under SCRA

    A Virginia landlord fought the law and the law won. When the landlord failed to return prepaid rent and security deposits to Col. Deborah Bean, 78th Air Base Wing vice commander, she was in violation of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act. The landlord was prosecuted by the Department of Justice,

  • Control Tower tests emergency egress system

    Airman 1st Class Shantelle Small stood on the catwalk outside the Robins control tower and studied the device that would soon take her on a seven-story drop to the ground. She didn't like what she saw. "Oh my God," she said. "That does not look fun at all." Small was looking at a Baker Life Chute, a

  • First duty assignment proves fruitful for Robins engineer

    Despite being new to the Air Force, one young lieutenant is already making a name for himself. 1st Lt. Nicholas Battle recently won the Air Force Outstanding Engineer award. He won in the junior military category. "It's a prestigious award and I feel blessed to receive it," Battle said. "The

  • Robins IG receives Defense Medal

    The new inspector general at Robins has been awarded the Defense Superior Service Medal for work in his previous assignment at U.S. Southern Command. The Defense Superior Service Medal is awarded by the Secretary of Defense to military officers who demonstrate superior meritorious service in a

  • Robins home to first AF combat communications wing

    At the Museum of Aviation on Monday, a banner that had been furled for 18 years saw the light of day again, and with it came the creation of a new wing at Robins. The banner had been that of the 1931st Communications Group that deactivated in 1991. In Monday's ceremony, the unit was reactivated and

  • Robins ANG bomb squad stays cool under pressure

    Working with explosives, and especially explosives of questionable stability, would seem to be a stressful job. You wouldn't know that, however, from spending time with members of the 116th Air Control Wing's Explosives Ordnance Disposal Flight. Even at the end of a day in which they had to answer

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