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  • 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

  • 653rd CLSS inactivates amidst heritage celebration

    Starting with Vietnam and ending with Iraq and Afghanistan, the White Knights of the 653rd Combat Logistics Support Squadron have traveled the globe to repair major damage on aircraft in combat zones. But their storied 42-year history came to an end Wednesday with an inactivation ceremony.

  • Shop ensures F-15 pilots can fly with unobstructed vision

    Perhaps no other unit at Robins has a more appropriate motto than the F-15 Canopy Shop's: "Our Mission is Clear." There are actually two canopy shops on base. The first disassembles the canopies and deals with any issues other than transparency of the acrylic canopy itself. The other is the 561st

  • HVM to drastically change programmed maintenance

    On July 31, a C-130 Hercules will arrive at Robins and mark the beginning of what is expected to be a dramatic change in the way aircraft maintenance is done. The Air Mobility Command plane will be the first validation aircraft for High Velocity Maintenance, which means it will be used to test the

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