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  • Team Robins celebrates Native American Indian Heritage Month

    Whether you are team ‘salad bowl’ or team ‘melting pot’, most Americans can agree that the nation’s fabric is multicultural, made strong through the contributions of many various ethnic groups.   To honor the contributions of some of her original weavers, Robins will celebrate Native American Indian Heritage Month with events meant to honor the
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Team Robins celebrates diversity

    The rock group Queen’s “We Will Rock You” doesn’t sound like a traditional song for a Vietnamese Bamboo Dance but that’s exactly the right beat for the choreography. The Asian American Pacific Islander team was just one of many performers and speakers at the third annual Diversity Luncheon held at the Heritage Club on Tuesday. Audience members
  • 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
  • 9/11: We haven’t forgotten; our resolve is intact

    It’s been 15 years.  Fifteen years since a group of terrorists used four commercial airliners to attack some of America’s most iconic buildings, killing thousands of innocent people in the process.   They set out to destroy what they saw as symbols of American wealth and power. They hoped to shake our foundation as a nation, but instead, they
  • Got Air Show Questions?

    ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. -- The Thunder Over Georgia Air Show will kick off at Robins Oct. 1 & 2. The show will include performances from the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, U.S. Army Special operations Command Parachute Demonstration Team – known as the Black Daggers, multiple warbird acts, aerial acrobatic rock star Patty Wagstaff and others.
  • POW/MIA ceremony slated Sept. 15

    Team Robins will remember and honor the sacrifice of America’s prisoners of war and those missing in action during the Robins POW/MIA organization’s annual recognition ceremony Sept. 15 at 3 p.m. in the Museum of Aviation’s Hangar One.
  • Record setters headed to Museum of Aviation

    Forty years ago, the SR-71 flew at a speed of 2,193 mph to set the World Absolute Speed Record. As a celebration of the July 28, 1976 event, the two who flew the airplane to its milestone will be at the Museum of Aviation July 30. “People all over are asking about it,” said Tyler Bryant, museum public relations and marketing. “They come here to see
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