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  • Infrastructure initiative grows beyond decreasing energy costs

    The Warner Robins Air Logistics Center initiative of improving infrastructure to help it deliver airpower is starting to gain serious momentum throughout the base. Initially, the initiative focused solely on decreasing energy consumption. The installation put up electric meters to allow facility

  • F-15C leaves Robins for fatigue test

    An F-15C left Robins March 15 on the back of a flatbed truck headed for a Boeing facility in St. Louis, Mo. It will never fly again, but it has an important mission to fill. The aircraft will be used in a fatigue test aimed at determining the maintenance activities required to achieve the F-15C

  • MC-130W program ceremony to celebrate success, completion

    Robins will celebrate the completion of the final MC-130W Combat Spear in a ceremony Tuesday. The aircraft is one of 12 C-130H2s modified to perform missions such as battlefield support, resupply of special operations forces and helicopter air refueling. The $380 million program involved the 572nd

  • Team Robins members earn Air Force-level honors

    The winners of annual Air Force-level A1 awards were recently announced, and Team Robins proudly has its share of recipients. Team Robins had six winners at the Air Force level, nearly half of those who had been previously recognized by Air Force Materiel Command and Air Force Command. The Team

  • AFPC 'operating location' headed to Robins

    Portions of the Directorate of Personnel here will realign under the Air Force Personnel Center in early May, but most people probably won't notice much difference. The realignment is part of an initiative to create AFPC "operating locations" at the Air Force's five large civilian centers, one of

  • Families take train ride to Plains

    Taking a train ride may not seem like a typical family diversion, but for more than 60 family members of deployed Robins Airmen it was just the distraction they needed. An early morning departure by bus took the family members to the local commuter train station in Cordele. Three hours later, the

  • Local officer part of historic medevac mission

    An officer in the 78th Medical Group played a role in the first joint medical evacuation helicopter flight in Afghanistan. Maj. Demea Alderman is on a 6-month deployment to Bagram Airfield. He is serving as flight commander of patient administration at the airfield hospital. Alderman took part in

  • Mechanics, engineers sought for numerous job openings

    They haven't posted a "Help Wanted" sign outside the front gates of Robins, but recruiters here are doing just about everything else to fill hundreds of job openings. Most of those jobs are related to aircraft maintenance and software engineering in the 402nd Maintenance Wing. The wing has hired 750

  • AFMC team begins major evaluation, assessment

    The chief of staff of Warner Robins Air Logistics Center has a simple way of explaining a significant event happening at Robins over the next two weeks. "It's game on," Carl Unholz said.The challenge to which he is referring is an inspection by the Logistics Compliance Assessment Team, or LCAT, from

  • E-tools gives support personnel access to digital data

    For decades, whenever an aircraft mechanic at Robins needed a technical drawing, technical order or any other document related to a repair, he had to traipse over to a warehouse, locate the drawing and return to the aircraft. That process would typically be completed many times over the course of

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