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  • 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,

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Sign of the times

    A group of about 20 students from Warner Robins High and teacher Polly Sheehan spent two days last month painting a mural celebrating the armed forces. The mural, which depicts military servicemembers and their families, reads "Every Day In The U.S.A. Is Armed Forces Appreciation Day." The phrase is

  • 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.

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