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  • Tech. Sgt. Thomas Bryan, a 5th Combat Communications Group Combat Readiness School student exits a vehicle rollover trainer at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ed Aspera)

    Rock and Rollover: 5th MOB School helps airmen come full circle with MRAP training

    There are just inches to spare. As you’re sitting in a confined space that can be oppressive and daunting, precious seconds can mean the difference between life and death. But you’re not sitting alone. Facing five other body-armor protected Airmen, with a driver and passenger who are out of sight, you collectively wait for the signal. Then it

  • Thunder Over Georgia Air Show this weekend

    The 2016 Thunder Over Georgia Air Show will roar into Middle Georgia to the delight of thousands this Saturday and Sunday.Headlining the event will be “America’s Ambassadors in Blue,” the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds. Their last visit here was in 2009.  “We’re very excited about this event,” Col. Jeff King, 78th Air Base Wing commander, said. “This
  • Dancers perform a Vietnamese Bamboo Dance to the rock group Queen’s “We Will Rock You” during the third annual Diversity Luncheon held Tuesday. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ray Crayton)

    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
  • Keith Felder, 402nd Maintenance Support Group sheet metal specialist, performs sheet metal fabrication. The 402nd MXSG is comprised of 400-plus employees at 12 work sites, to include infrastructure engineering, chemical laboratories and the Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratory. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ray Crayton)

    It’s our Culture: Robins unit recertified by OSHA as VPP Star Site

    The 402nd Maintenance Support Group has been recertified as a Star Site by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration following a visit in August.   The group was awarded the prestigious OSHA Voluntary Protection Program Star Site accreditation in 2013 for its ongoing commitment to workplace health and safety. It was the first industrial

  • 116th MDG always prepped to support homeland

    For every disaster in America – natural or manmade – the Air National Guard stands ready to assist.  At Robins, there are Guard members serving in the 116th Medical Group who not only support home-station activities, but also ensure the wing’s military members are medically qualified to deploy in support of combatant commanders across the
  • Bob Bovitch, Vietnam veteran greets POW/MIA Ceremony guest speaker, retired Chaplain (Col.) Robert G. Certain, (left), a B-52 navigator who flew 100 missions over Southeast Asia from 1971 to 1972. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tommie Horton)

    POW/MIA Day: Team Robins remembers

    Remember. It’s one simple word, but it was the theme of the POW/MIA Ceremony held Sept. 15 at the Museum of Aviation. And, a powerful theme it was.A somber demonstration around a circular table which honored those from each branch of the military included dress hats from the Coast Guard, Air Force, Army, Marines and Navy. A baseball cap was used to
  • Kathryn Manly, a Clayton State University senior, recently completed the Workforce Recruitment Program with the 78th Medical Group at Robins Air Force Base, Ga. To learn more about the program, visit www.wrp.gov. (U.S. Air Force photo by Shane Warren)

    Program gives college students, recent grads with disabilities work experience

    The Workforce Recruitment Program, also called WRP, is opening doors for people with disabilities. The program is a recruitment and referral tool that connects federal and private sector employers nationwide with disabled college students and recent graduates eager to prove their abilities in the workplace through temporary summer or permanent jobs.

  • 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
  • Keep Calm and Airman On poster

    King: We’re at our best as a team

    Thanks to media and technology, we can now be everywhere at once. We celebrate with our Olympians, grieve with the victims of flooding in Louisiana, and identify with those locked in conflict at home and abroad. Even at a glance, the news highlights the churn presently within our society. We’re still a nation at war, and now the fight is returning

  • 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
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