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  • General Peyer: When suicide hits home . . .

    With a phone call on the night of Jan. 29, the You Matter suicide campaign at Robins suddenly became more personal to Maj. Gen. Polly Peyer. The commander of Warner Robins Air Logistics Center suspected something was wrong when the phone rang at 9 p.m. because most people who would be calling her

  • Robins exceeds goal, raises more than $90,000 for AFAF

    Despite tough economic times, Robins military members and others dug deep to support the Air Force Assistance Fund. The campaign, which ran from March 23 to May 1, raised $91,259, far surpassing its goal of $76,391. "I think it's fantastic with the situation we are in right now with the economy,"

  • Robins athletes invited to Air Force volleyball camp

    Two Team Robins members will be trying next week to make the Air Force women's volleyball team. Staff Sgt. Briana Cervantes of the 116th Logistics Readiness Squadron and Senior Airman Misty Mahlerwein of the 78th Air Base Wing headquarters are heading to Hill Air Force Base in Utah for the training

  • Cooking class teaches art of healthy meal preparation

    When Master Sgt. Jeffery Gombos was an Airman living in a dorm and wanted to do a little cooking, ramen noodles were the go-to dish. It wasn't because he didn't know how to cook; he just didn't have a kitchen. Airmen in the dorms at Robins today have a kitchen, but ramen noodles, that classic dish

  • Robins Air Show brings crowd

    A suspect weather forecast didn't seem to do much to keep people away from the Robins Air Show held last weekend. An estimated 75,000 people attended each day, which is a little unusual because normally more people attend on Saturday. At the last show in 2006, 90,000 people attended on Saturday and

  • Army skydiving demonstration team more than a job

    Army Sgt. Aaron Figel didn't fulfill his boyhood dream of playing baseball in the Major Leagues, but he makes a living doing something he loves. Sergeant Figel, an Army Ranger, is one of 12 members of the Golden Knights, the Army's skydiving demonstration team that performed at the Robins Air Show.

  • Flightline defibrillator installation gives jump start to saving lives

    In one month last year, the 402nd Maintenance Wing lost two of its team members to heart attacks in the flightline area. It's no surprise then, that many employees began asking why the flightline didn't have defibrillators. It was the most common comment posted on boards set up as part of the unit's

  • Science studies prompt aquatic makerover, exploration

    Walking along the 5th and 6th grade hallway at Robins Elementary, you enter an underwater world where you feel you could get attacked by a shark or stung by a jelly fish. The students have transformed the area into a 3-D marina display showing land, beach, ocean and the ecology around a coral reef

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