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  • Museum sheds light on energy

    The Museum of Aviation knows a thing or two about saving energy. Since fiscal 2008, the museum has successfully reduced its overall electrical usage by more than 10 percent, saving nearly $26,000 on its annual electric utility bill. The museum's "in-house" initiatives have included installing

  • Marine landing signals new mission

    As dozens of people stood in front of a new hangar Friday, a distant "thump, thump, thump" sound reverberated across the sky, heralding a change coming to Robins. The sound was made by two Marine helicopters inbound from Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Atlanta to their new home in the 116th Air Control

  • Center committed to VPP, worker safety

    The Voluntary Protection Program at Robins is a huge success - more than 300 Commander's Challenge Safe Sites and one of only 31 OSHA Star Sites in the Department of Defense - due to the direct involvement of nearly every member of Team Robins. The Challenge provides a framework and the motivation

  • Carpooling pays

    Robins officials are continually looking for ways to improve traffic on base, and are encouraging the use of a government-funded Transportation Incentive Program as one solution. To help motivate workers to carpool, the federal government implemented the TIP, a benefit program aimed at offsetting

  • Partnering to reduce pollution

    Team Robins members can help the environment and help themselves as well through an initiative which encourages car pooling. Robins partners with the Clean Air Campaign to give workers here a way to find carpool partners through an online registry at www.logyourcommute.org. Robins employees can go

  • Energy initiatives see the light

    Team Robins continues to sharpen its sights on energy conservation, including probing for new ways to reduce energy costs. As part of the installation's energy reduction initiative, the Facilities Maintenance Team in the 402nd Electronics Maintenance Group looked for new ways to help the unit trim

  • Provisional combined squadron ends, missions to continue

    The short tenure of the 78th Comptroller & Contracting Squadron came to an end Tuesday. In a ceremony at the Museum of Aviation, the squadron was inactivated less than two years after it was formed on a provisional basis. The squadron had combined the 78th Comptroller Squadron and the 78th

  • New gate offers ease in traffic

    To help alleviate traffic congestion caused by the closing of the Russell Parkway Gate, drivers can now use the newly opened Russell Parkway/Museum Gate. This gate is, however, only accessible via Russell Parkway. To enter the gate, drivers must cross the bridge and follow traffic into the gate.

  • Green Street Gate – the right fix

    Work is expected to begin July 19 on a turn lane into the Green Street Gate for motorists traveling north on Highway 247. Robins is funding the $200,000 project, which will be completed in early September. Over the years, Robins employees have made an illegal turn across the grass peninsula near the

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