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  • 101 Critical Days: Summer’s on the way; remember safety

    Summer is just about here. Soon it will be time to rev up the engines for long road trips on the motorcycle, summer travel with the family, and increased boating and recreational activities. With all of that increased activity comes the potential for additional hazards and risk to personal safety. Addressing this with risk management is the Air
  • Airman 1st Class Kevin Gasch, 461st Air Control Wing Knowledge Operations manager, sports his morale t shirt May 9. Air Force regulation 35-10 authorizes the wear of unit Morale T-shirts on Fridays across the Air Force.(U.S. Air Force photo by Roland Leach)

    Unit Morale T-shirts make debut at Robins

    In case you weren't already aware, Robins Airmen are permitted to wear morale T-shirts on Fridays. The Air Force's uniform policy was approved in January by Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh, with updates to Air Force Instruction 36-2903 on Air Force Dress and Appearance. While any unit is welcome to increase unit pride by wearing individual shirts,

  • HAWC challenges people to give up tobacco May 31

    The Health and Wellness Center hopes to get a lot of people to quit. Yearly, 170 countries around the world, including the U.S, join the World Health Organization in observing World No Tobacco Day May 31, to emphasize tobacco's public health threat and fatal consequences. Robins will join the rest of the Department of Defense in encouraging tobacco

  • Caring for People forum focuses on quality of life mission

    With a longstanding tradition in the Air Force of taking care of its own, the annual Caring for People forum creates a valuable tool for members to have their voices heard by leadership. Now in its fourth year, the forum conducted April 29 at Horizons Event Center brought together representatives from across Robins to discuss quality of life issues
  • 78th Medical Group members plant a Japanese Maple Monday during the Arbor Day Ceremony and Tree City USA Presentation. The tree was one of six planted during the ceremony and was dedicated to Col. James Dienst. The ceremony also included the Arbor Day Proclamation reading and signing, and the accepting of Robins' 21st consecutive Tree City USA Award from representatives of the Georgia Forestry Commission. (U.S. Air Force photo by Krista Mott)

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    Let’s do this: Secret stash doesn’t stop good living

    She's no stranger to her favorite fast-food joints, eats chocolate just about every day and even keeps a "secret stash" drawer filled with assorted sugary goodies. And, she doesn't plan to change any of that any time soon. In other words, Dani Lebovitz, base registered dietitian, is a lot like the rest of us and here to remind everyone that
  • May Fitness Calendar

    Physical Fitness, Sports Month events aim to get people active

    Robins Air Force Base's Physical Fitness and Sports Month calendar is packed with activities to keep people moving throughout the celebration. The Fitness Center has themed each week of May to highlight certain fitness areas. Themes include Warrior Athlete Week, Fitness Education and Competition Week, which will have events like a kick-off 5K;
  • Kendall Preston, 778th Civil Engineer Squadron mechanical engineer, and Kevin Bartoe, deputy chief of Special Operations, plant a Live Oak at the tree-planting ceremony conducted at Robins. (U. S. Air Force photo by Tommie Horton/Released)

    Annual tree ceremony in honor of Arbor Day

    Members of the Robins community will gather at the former parade field near Forest Park Housing at 9 a.m. Monday to plant trees in commemoration of Arbor Day. The base conducts the observance in late April as the capstone of Robins' month-long celebration of the environment. Organizing a public Arbor Day event fulfills one of the four requirements

  • Starbase Robins continues mission of the minds

    Getting schoolchildren excited about their core curriculum can literally be a matter of rocket science. But, that happens to be a specialty of Starbase Robins, an academic program which has more than accepted the challenge by gaining young students' interest in the vital areas of science, technology, engineering and math - STEM - for nearly two
  • At left, Dwight Kirkland, base archeologist, and Robin Hodgkins, 78th Civil Engineer Group environmental technician, take part in the cleanup which is part of the base’s Earth Day conservation efforts. Robins will host events throughout the month and into May for its initiative themed, “Conserve Today, Save Tomorrow.” (U.S. Air Force photo by Misuzu Allen)

    Conserving for tomorrow: Respecting things past

    A local cemetery was alive with helping hands last Friday as volunteers from around Robins kicked off cleanup efforts in honor of National Earth Day. Eleven participants - mostly Robins civilians - were on hand with rakes, garbage bags, weed trimmers and plenty of sunscreen to revitalize historic Bryant Cemetery, one of two cleanups that had been
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