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  • ALC hands over last MC-130W

    The final MC-130W Combat Spear to be completed at Robins is headed to the warfighter. In a ceremony Tuesday, Maj. Gen. Polly Peyer, commander of the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, officially turned the plane over to Lt. Gen. Donald Wurster, commander of Air Force Special Operations Command.

  • P3I: HVM key factor in improving ALC's processes

    You can't talk about the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center's "Process" focus area without mentioning High Velocity Maintenance. HVM is all about putting in place standard repeatable processes to dramatically reduce maintenance downtime for C-130s and eventually other aircraft. To date, the HVM team

  • Heritage bar area to close for renovations

    Renovations are scheduled to start Tuesday on the bar area of the Heritage Club. Bar activities will temporarily relocate to the Wellston Center behind Horizons. The renovations will not interfere with Pizza Depot, the barber shop, and other activities in the building. The four-month, $240,000

  • VPP: One unit's journey to become a Gold Site

    A dozen people recently showed up at the visitor's center in front of the 402nd Electronics Maintenance Group complex. They were there to put the 300-member 568th Electronics Maintenance Squadron, which works on avionics for the F-15 Eagle, through a rigorous examination to see if it was worthy of

  • 78th ABW welcomes new vice commander

    The 78th Air Base Wing welcomes Col. David Southerland as its new vice commander.Southerland entered the Air Force in 1981 as an enlisted member and was commissioned through officer training school in 1986. Southerland previously served as director of manpower and personnel at the Air Force Academy.

  • New ASW commander gets first salute

    Col. Howard "Chris" Davis became the new commander of the 330th Aircraft Sustainment Wing and 542nd Combat Sustainment Wing March 26 in a ceremony at the Museum of Aviation's Century of Flight Hangar. Prior to this assignment, Davis served as commander of the 538th Aircraft Sustain-ment Group and

  • Plans and Programs Directorate first staff agency to earn VPP gold

    The office which evaluates Warner Robins Air Logistics Center units for the Commander's Safe Site Challenge has now been evaluated itself and struck gold. The Plans and Programs Directorate, also known as XP, is made up of 75 people who have a variety of tasks, including management of the Voluntary

  • Infrastructure initiative grows beyond decreasing energy costs

    The Warner Robins Air Logistics Center initiative of improving infrastructure to help it deliver airpower is starting to gain serious momentum throughout the base. Initially, the initiative focused solely on decreasing energy consumption. The installation put up electric meters to allow facility

  • New 402nd facility to officially open

    A ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday will celebrate the opening of the new Aircraft Component Repair Facility in Bldg. 189. The 61,000-square foot building cost nearly $15 million and is already in use. It consolidates work which was done in Bldgs. 146, 603 and 605 by the 402nd Commodities Maintenance

  • F-15C leaves Robins for fatigue test

    An F-15C left Robins March 15 on the back of a flatbed truck headed for a Boeing facility in St. Louis, Mo. It will never fly again, but it has an important mission to fill. The aircraft will be used in a fatigue test aimed at determining the maintenance activities required to achieve the F-15C

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