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  • Second Lt. Jessica Serd, 78th Logistics Readiness Squadron Vehicle Operations officer in charge, retouches the graphic of an Eagle at the Staff Sgt. Felicia R. Rivers Airman Leadership School. Serd was one of many volunteers who rolled up their sleeves and helped renovate the school. (U.S. Air Force photo/MISUZU ALLEN)

    Volunteers step up for ALS renovation

    While Airmen were preparing themselves for future leadership roles, volunteers were decking the Staff Sgt. Felicia R. Rivers Airman Leadership School’s walls with a fresh coat of paint and mementos of the past. It has been more than a decade since anyone has spruced up the school’s interior. Master Sgt. Julian Colunga, co-lead project officer along
  • The RQ-4 Global Hawk worked on by Team Robins maintenance professionals sits on the base flight line June 29, 2017. A special ribbon cutting ceremony, signaling the early completion of work on the first RQ-4 Global Hawk at Robins Air Force Base, Ga., was held June 29. Robins is the first and only installation to have a building-based Launch and Recovery Element, allowing the aircraft to take off and land from this location. This is also the first time a Global Hawk has flown into an Air Force air logistics complex. Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex maintenance professionals meticulously painted the aircraft to prevent corrosion. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Kelly Goonan/released)

    Job well done!

    A special ribbon cutting ceremony, signaling the early completion of work on the first RQ-4 Global Hawk at Robins, was held on the base flight line June 29. The arrival of this unmanned aerial vehicle marks the first time an aircraft of this type has flown in to an Air Force air logistics complex.
  • The RQ-4 Global Hawk that Team Robins maintenance professionals have been working on sits on the runway at Robins, June 29, 2017. Robins is the first and currently the only installation to have a building-based Launch and Recovery Element, allowing the aircraft to take off and land from this location. This is also the first time a Global Hawk has flown into an Air Force air logistics complex. Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex maintenance professionals meticulously painted the aircraft to prevent corrosion and finished the job ahead of schedule. While a programmed depot maintenance requirement for Global Hawk has not been established, the Air Force recognizes that having an organic maintenance capability for Global Hawk enhances our ability to manage the fleet and keep this resource flying.(U.S. Air Force photo illustration by Claude Lazzara)

    Up with the sun

    The RQ-4 Global Hawk that Team Robins maintenance professionals have been working on sits on the runway at Robins, June 29, 2017. Robins is the first and currently the only installation to have a building-based Launch and Recovery Element, allowing the aircraft to take off and land from this location. This is also the first time a Global Hawk has
  • George Pacheco, 78th Operations Support Squadron, Air Traffic Control and Landing Systems (ATCALS) maintenance technician tells how his team came to make emergency repairs on the ailing Doppler radar in time to provide critical storm tracking during the Jan. 21 – 22 storms that hit Middle Georgia. Robins ATCALS team maintains this Doppler radar located near Jeffersonville, Ga. (U.S. Air Force photo by Roland Leach)

    Base technicians keep a weather radar ready to track a storm

    The Air Force uses long range detection systems to track enemy forces, but what if the enemy is a severe storm? Well there is a high–tech radar that serves as an early warning system to tell everyone to take cover when a dangerous storm is coming. What looks like a golf ball for the Jolly Green giant is actually a National Weather Service Doppler
  • Maj. Gen. Eugene Haase, AFSOC vice commander, speaks to Team Robins maintenance professionals during a special visit to the base to laud the accelerated programmed depot maintenance work being done on AFSOC aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ed Aspera)

    AFSOC general returns to thank Robins maintainers; provides gunship tour

     As promised by the Air Force Special Operations Command vice commander, Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex C-130 sustainment workers were treated to a Feb. 9 tour inside an AC-130W gunship fully loaded with the latest modifications.  Maj. Gen. Eugene Haase, AFSOC vice commander, and his crew brought the AC-130W from Hurlburt Field, Fla., to the
  • Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski, Air Force Materiel Command commander, speaks to members of Team Robins during her commanders call at the Museum of Aviation Century of Flight Hangar Jan. 18, 2017. During the commanders call, the general discussed the AFMC Strategic Plan, released in 2016, which established the following four goals: Increase AFMC's agility in order to best support the Air Force enterprise; Bolster trust and confidence of those AFMC serves; Drive cost-effectiveness into the capabilities the command provides; and, Recruit, develop and retain a diverse, high-performing and resilient team. In closing the general told the audience, "Thanks for what you do. It makes me proud to be a part of Air Force Materiel Command." (U.S. Air Force photo by Tommie Horton)

    Gen. Pawlikowski gets strategic at Robins Commander’s Call

    Gen. Ellen M. Pawlikowski, Air Force Materiel Command commander, provided Team Robins with an update on command strategies during a commander’s call at the Museum of Aviation Century of Flight Hangar Jan. 18.
  • U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Kevin Phillips, 116th Air Control Wing (ACW), Georgia Air National Guard, throws a branch from a fallen tree on a debris pile while clearing roads in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew, Savannah, Ga., Oct. 9, 2016. Citizen Airmen from the 116th ACW deployed to Savannah to support civil authorities, are working along side the Chatham County Public Works department to assist in road clearing and debris cleanup operations. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. Roger Parsons)

    Port in a Storm: Team Robins offers assistance during Hurricane Matthew

    In response to Hurricane Matthew’s steady trek along the coast of the southeastern U.S. last week, Team Robins members stood ready to respond when needed. As mandatory evacuation orders were included for Georgia coastal counties such as Bryan, Chatham, Liberty, McIntosh, Glynn and Camden counties, and multiple counties across Florida and South Carolina, one way Robins assisted was through the standup of the Emergency Family Assistance Center.
  • Major Scott Pitts, U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds No. 8 Pilot, talks to Northside Elementary School 5th graders at Starbase Robins Sept. 29, 2016. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ray Crayton)

    Thunderbird pilot meets with Starbase Robins students

    Maj. Scott Petz, pilot of the No. 8 Thunderbird jet, met with Starbase students at the Museum of Aviation Sept. 29. Starbase Robins is a Department of Defense program which mentors children in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. Petz’s mission was to inspire the fifth graders to not only become Air Force pilots but to study math and science

  • Thunder Over Georgia Air Show this weekend

    The 2016 Thunder Over Georgia Air Show will roar into Middle Georgia to the delight of thousands this Saturday and Sunday.Headlining the event will be “America’s Ambassadors in Blue,” the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds. Their last visit here was in 2009.  “We’re very excited about this event,” Col. Jeff King, 78th Air Base Wing commander, said. “This

  • Making a Difference: Robins Celebrates 75 Years of Power Projection

    Team Robins has a worldwide impact every single day. Whether it’s supporting humanitarian and war efforts by maintaining aircraft and software, providing personnel and supplies, caring for Airmen and our families, or providing vital combat Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance  and tactical communication capabilities ... Team Robins drives
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