Quick response training saves Robins team member Published Sept. 23, 2011 By Jenny Gordon 78th Air Base Wing Public Affairs ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. -- Patti Williams, a customer analyst with DLA Aviation at Robins, wants to thank one Team Robins member for his quick response. As Williams was attending a working lunch in a conference room in Bldg. 215 on Sept. 13, the first bite she took of her sandwich left her unable to breathe. "The bite that I took went down my throat and got lodged," said Williams, recalling that all she could do was stand up, move her arms, and turn away as she felt she might become ill. Capt. Gilberto Perez, with the 52nd Combat Communications Squadron, was sitting to her right. Williams said he asked if she was OK, but he knew she couldn't respond. "I just saw her grabbing her throat. As she was hunching over, getting close to falling on the ground, I got behind her and did the Heimlich," said Perez. "I asked her if she could talk to me, which meant she was breathing. "She was unable to do that," he added, "so I did it twice just to get it out." Perez, who arrived at Robins in April, said of the training Airmen receive every year, "We never know when we're going to use it." Williams, who said the entire episode happened in just a few short minutes, is thankful for the military training Perez received. "He didn't hesitate; he responded very quickly," she said. "My grandchildren wouldn't have a grandmother if it wasn't for him."