Robins concludes two weeks of ORE Published Sept. 30, 2011 By Jenny Gordon 78th Air Base Wing Public Affairs ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. -- A two-week operational readiness exercise concluded Sept. 23, leaving many Team Robins members more prepared for future inspections, home station sustainment and deployments. "An ORE is meant to be an exact footprint of an operational readiness inspection; the intent is to prepare ourselves for our Inspector General inspection next year," said Christopher LaFrance, Robins exercise evaluation team chief. Phase 1 of the exercise, Sept. 12-16, included personnel and cargo processing, and quick reaction exercises by first responders. Proficiency training focused on emergency response to a C-130 for aircrew extraction, a structural fire, and an evacuation at Bldg. 301. Phase 2 consisted of a mid-week field training scenario at Warrior Air Base. This portion of the exercise allowed Airmen to exercise their ability to survive and operate in a wartime environment. Following a two-day training period, participating Airmen were evaluated and graded while performing their duties as if in a deployed location. "All deployers out here are challenged to demonstrate their capability to do all of the tasks that occur during an IG inspection," LaFrance said. Self-aid and buddy care, small-arms and weapons training, communication, and survival skills were included in the emergency management exercises and attack training. Rob Clay, 78th Civil Engineer Group emergency management logistics chief, maintains Warrior Air Base - the upkeep of its facilities, as well as providing trainers and expertise. "The participants are learning quite a bit of helpful information," said Clay. "It will not only help them with exercises here at Robins, but also with deployed locations where they may go."