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Robins Air Force Base New Year Baby 1994

The states Air Strength base at Warner Robins, Georgia, United States

Robins Air Force Base
Warner Robins, Georgia in the Us of America
A C-5 Galaxy undergoing modifications during 2011 at Warner Robins Air Logistics Center.

A C-5 Galaxy undergoing modifications during 2011 at Warner Robins Air Logistics Center.
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Robins AFB is located in Georgia

Robins AFB

Robins AFB

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Robins AFB is located in the United States

Robins AFB

Robins AFB

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Coordinates 32°38′24″N 083°35′30″W  /  32.64000°N 83.59167°W  / 32.64000; -83.59167 Coordinates: 32°38′24″N 083°35′xxx″W  /  32.64000°North 83.59167°West  / 32.64000; -83.59167
Type US Air Forcefulness Base
Site data
Owner Department of Defense force
Operator US Air Forcefulness
Controlled by Air Strength Materiel Command (AFMC)
Status Operational
Website world wide web.robins.af.mil
Site history
Built 1941 (1941) – 1942
In utilise 1942 – present
Garrison information
Electric current
commander		 Colonel Lindsay Droz
Garrison 78th Air Base of operations Wing (Host)
Airfield information
Identifiers IATA: WRB, ICAO: KWRB, FAA LID: WRB, WMO: 722175
Summit 89.6 metres (294 ft) AMSL
Runways
Direction Length and surface
fifteen/33 3,657.9 metres (12,001 ft) Porous European Mix
Source: Federal Aviation Assistants[1]

Robins Air Strength Base (IATA: WRB, ICAO: KWRB) is a major United States Air Force installation located in Houston Canton, Georgia, U.s.. The base of operations is located just east of the city of Warner Robins, xviii mi (29 km) due south-southeast of Macon and approximately 100 mi (160 km) southward-southeast of Atlanta, Georgia. The base is named in award of Brig Gen Augustine Warner Robins, the Air Force'due south "male parent of logistics".[2]

Robins AFB is the domicile of the Air Force Materiel Command'due south Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex (WR-ALC) (FLZ) which is the worldwide director for a broad range of aircraft, engines, missiles, software and avionics and accessories components. The commander of WR-ALC is Brigadier General Jennifer Hammerstedt.[iii] Information technology is i of three Air Force Air Logistic Complexes, the others being Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex (OC-ALC) at Tinker Air Strength Base, Oklahoma, and Ogden Air Logistics Complex (OO-ALC) at Hill Air Force Base, Utah.

The host unit at Robins AFB is the 78th Air Base Wing (78 ABW) which provides services and support for the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex and its tenant organizations.

History [edit]

Robins Army Airfield, about 1944

The War Section, in search of a site for an Army Air Corps Depot, selected the sleepy whistle-stop town known as Wellston, Georgia, 18 miles due south of Macon. Army Colonel Charles Thomas, originally from Atlanta, landed at the Herbert Smart Aerodrome almost Camp Wheeler near Macon in October 1941 to oversee the building of the location which would later become the home to Wellston Air Depot at Robins Field (afterward to become Robins AFB).[4]

It was Col. Thomas who chose the name Robins for his mentor Brig. Gen. Augustine Warner Robins. Brig. Gen. Robins is considered the "father of logistics" in the United States Air Strength for his arrangement of cataloging supplies and materials. He had a lengthy military career prior to becoming the chief of the Air Corps Materiel Division. Robins traveled in China disguised as a millionaire tourist, collecting intelligence for the Army. He also went to Mexico where he served under Gen. John J. Pershing in the Army's campaign confronting Pancho Villa. He trained during World War I to become a pilot earning his wings in June 1918. He didn't get to meet combat because the war was ending. Robins suffered a virtually-fatal plane crash in 1921 in which his jaw and arm were severely broken. Brig. Gen. Robins died of a heart attack on Begetter's Day, 16 June 1940 at Randolph Field, Texas, while he was Commandant of the Air Corps Training Heart.[4]

Aeriform view of Robins Air Depot aircraft hangar

After World War Ii, the number of military and noncombatant employees dropped until in March 1946 it reached a full of only 3,900. The workforce grew again equally the base of operations supported the Berlin Airlift, until by 1949 the workforce had grown again to 11,000.[5] When the Air Force airtight down its maintenance depots at the former Brookley AFB in Mobile, Alabama and the former Olmsted AFB in Middleton Township, Pennsylvania, Robins AFB causeless the workload of these depots.

On 28 Oct 1949, Robins AFB became the headquarters of the 14th Air Forcefulness, the numbered air forcefulness responsible for administering the Air Force Reserve and the Air National Guard.[6]

Some Robins AFB SAC units went to Guam or Vietnam during the Vietnam War and took part in many of the bombing missions. Maintenance teams from Robins frequently traveled to Southeast Asia to repair severely damaged aircraft. Robins AFB eventually managed the Lockheed C-141, C-seven, and the F-xv Hawkeye equally well every bit modifying the C-130s to the gunship configuration.

Robins played a key role in the Vietnam War (1964–73), supplying troops and materiel through the Southeast Asian Pipeline and modifying Air-conditioning-119G/K and Air-conditioning-130 gunships. Also playing a role were the C-141, the C-130, the C-123, and the C-124 cargo aircraft—all maintained at Robins. In 1973 these same C-141s supported the resupply of Israel in the Yom Kippur State of war. In October 1983, C-130s from Robins supported U.Due south. forces in the invasion of Grenada.

Betwixt 1977 and 1981, Robins was the air base of operations used past former President Jimmy Carter during his tenure on visits to his hometown of Plains. SAC's B-52s left Robins in 1983 leaving the 19th Wing every bit the sole SAC unit on the base of operations with its KC-135s.

Modernistic era [edit]

In 1990–91, during the Persian Gulf War, Robins provided record numbers of parts, repairs, and personnel to coalition forces in the Western farsi Gulf. Robins-maintained F-15 Eagles and the E-8 Articulation STARS played key roles in defeating the Iraqi military powers. In March–June 1999, during Operation Allied Force, the same employees and weapon systems played a decisive role in defeating the forces of the Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic.

In 1996, the Georgia Air National Guard's 116th Fighter Wing at Dobbins AFB relinquished their F-15 aircraft and moved to Robins, transitioning to B-1 Lancer bombers and existence redesignated as the 116th Bomb Wing. That same yr, the former 93rd Bomb Wing at Robins was reactivated as the 93rd Air Control Fly with the E-viii Joint STARS aircraft. In 2001, the B-i bombers left Robins AFB and the Georgia Air National Guard entered into a merged Agile-Baby-sit "associate" fly arrangement in the Articulation STARS mission with the active Air Force, with the Air National Guard belongings atomic number 82 responsibility equally the 116th Air Control Fly.

The Warner Robins Air Logistic Complex and Robins AFB grade the largest single industrial complex in the Land of Georgia. The 23,000 civilian employees have an annual payroll over $i billion. The Logistic Complex manages and overhauls the F-fifteen, C-v Galaxy, C-130 Hercules, and the AC-130 gunships—and all of the Air Force'due south helicopters. In add-on, the Complex also supports the C-17 Globemaster 3 and U-2 aircraft.

Until June 2008, Robins was also the abode of the KC-135s of the 19th Air Refueling Group, when the unit was inactivated, then reactivated a month later every bit the 19th Airlift Wing at Picayune Rock AFB, Arkansas. The East-8s of the 116th Air Control Wing continues to operate at Robins as a combined Regular Air Force and Georgia Air National Guard air control wing, and the headquarters of the Air Force Reserve Command is also located on the base. The urban center of Warner Robins, Georgia, has grown in proportion to get the sixth largest city in Georgia.

Robins AFB main gate sign

For a brief period, Robins AFB was the home of the C-27J Schoolhouse. The schoolhouse officially began classes at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia on 9 September 2009. Fifty-3 Link (a subsidiary of the erstwhile L3 Technologies) operated the official C-27J schoolhouse at the Georgia Section of Defense's Fixed Fly Flight Facility at Robins AFB. This flight facility included training classrooms, reckoner learning center, a 100-person auditorium, flying planning, and fight operations areas. The facility besides housed the resident Government Flight Representative and Aviation Program Squad assigned to the C-27J contract. Fixed Fly Flight Facility Robins AFB is also dwelling of Hotel Company, 171st Aviation Regiment, Georgia Army National Guard, flying the cargo delivery Short C-23 Sherpa. The schoolhouse was deactivated when the Air Strength divested its C-27J fleet as part of the 2014 National Defense force Authorisation Act.[7] [8]

On i April 2016, an EF-1 tornado ripped through the northeast corner of Centerville and continued over Robins Air Forcefulness Base, ripping off hangar roofs.

Robins was one of several filming locations used in the 2020 disaster film Greenland, with the protagonist and his family existence sent to the base to be evacuated in accelerate of a catastrophic comet touch.

Major commands [edit]

  • Air Service Command, 22 July 1942
Redesignated: Army Air Forces Materiel and Services Control, 17 July 1944
Redesignated: Army Air Forces Technical Service Control, 31 August 1944
Redesignated: Air Technical Service Control, 1 July 1945
Redesignated: Air Materiel Command, ix March 1946
Redesignated: Air Force Logistics Command, 1 April 1961 – 1 July 1992
  • Air Strength Materiel Command, ane June 1992 – present
  • Air Forcefulness Reserve Command, 17 February 1997–present

Major units assigned [edit]

Role and operations [edit]

Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex [edit]

Has worldwide management and engineering responsibility for the repair, modification and overhaul of the F-15 Eagle, C-130 Hercules, C-17 Globemaster Three, and C-5 Milky way, C-5M Super Milky way, Boeing F-15E Strike Eagle, RQ-4A Global Hawk, Sikorsky HH-60G Pave Militarist aircraft. In addition to these weapon systems, the ALC has worldwide management responsibility for the U-2S Dragon Lady, all Air Strength helicopters, all special operations aircraft and their peculiar avionics systems. The middle too provides logistic support for all the C-17 Globemaster Iii, Air Forcefulness missiles, vehicles, general purpose computers, and many avionics and electronic warfare systems used on most Air Forcefulness aircraft.

Through about vii,000 employees, the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex (WR-ALC) provides depot maintenance, engineering support and software development to major weapon systems [F-fifteen, C-five, C-130, C-17 and Special Operations Forces (SOF) aircraft]. The Complex achieves command objectives providing a capability/capacity to support peacetime maintenance requirements, wartime emergency demands, shipping boxing impairment repair and a ready source of maintenance of critical items.

Reorganized on 17 July 2012 from an Air Logistics Center to an Air Logistics Circuitous, it currently consists of v Groups --- encounter below.

78th Air Base of operations Wing [edit]

The wing provides support for Robins AFB and its 39 acquaintance units. Responsible for logistics readiness, medical, ceremonious engineer, security, comptroller activities, contracting, morale and welfare, mission support, public affairs, legal civilian personnel, environmental management, burn emergency services, and emergency direction for the installation.

  • 78th Mission Support Group
  • 78th Medical Group
  • 78th Civil Engineer Group
  • 78th Security Forces Squadron
  • 78th Operations Support Squadron
  • 78th Comptroller Squadron
  • 78th Communications Directorate

402d Aircraft Maintenance Group (402 AMXG) [edit]

Provides Programmed Depot Maintenance (PDM) and unscheduled repair activities on F-15, C-130, C-5 and C-17 shipping. Responsible for the repair, modification, reclamation and rework of over 200 aircraft worldwide. Prepares and deploys combat Aircraft Battle Damage Repair (ABDR), crash recovery and supply and transportation teams worldwide.

402d Bolt Maintenance Group (402 CMXG) [edit]

Provides depot maintenance support to major weapons systems, primarily F-15, C-5, C-130 and Special Performance Forces (SOF) aircraft, through major structural repair, manufacturing, modification, component and special process repair. Applies industrial engineering and product control programs and procedures.

402d Electronics Maintenance Group (402 EMXG) [edit]

Provides gainsay-ready avionics parts and services to our warfighting forces. Production encompasses 75 per centum of the Air Force organic workload, consisting of 275 key systems incorporating 6,100 detached items. Transformed adequacy into effects through outstanding depot-level test, maintenance, manufacturing, repair, and engineering capabilities for all Department of Defense Services and Strange Military Sales.

402d Maintenance Back up Group (402 MXSG) [edit]

Provides logistics support for depot maintenance repair facilities and provides plant facilities, equipment engineering science, calibration, and installation back up to the wing's infrastructure. The unit is organized into two squadrons: the Industrial Services Squadron, which manages capital investment-related programs; and the Maintenance Materiel Support Squadron, which is responsible for determining, establishing, maintaining, forecasting, and transporting inventory of consumable and exchangeable materiel required for depot maintenance.

402d Software Engineering science Group (402 SWEG) [edit]

Serves as the single organic source of Mission Critical Computer Resources and Automatic Examination Equipment software for all assigned prime systems and equipment and for all echelons of maintenance requiring reckoner programming skills and assembly level computer programming languages. Designs, develops, and provides new, altered, updated, or modified software and updates/corrects existing avionics items/system software. Provides on-site engineering science aid to identify and right software deficiencies and provides criteria and documentation for automated equipment. Conducts feasibility studies for the application of automation to the depot maintenance process, and serve as the Automated Test Systems focal indicate for the fly.

Tenant Units [edit]

  • Air Forcefulness Reserve Command Headquarters
  • 492nd Special Operations Wing (Detachment 1)
  • 461st Air Control Fly [ USAF ]
  • 116th Air Control Wing [ Georgia ANG ]
  • 689th Combat Communications Fly
    • 5th Combat Communications Group
  • Army Aviation Support Facility Robins AFB
  • Hotel Company, 171st Aviation Regiment (C-23 TAC)
  • C-27J Aircraft Qualification Schoolhouse
  • 94th Aerial Port Squadron
  • 367th Recruiting Group
  • Robins NCO Academy
  • Air Force Metrology and Calibration Program Office (AFMETCAL)

Based units [edit]

Flight and notable non-flying units based at Robins Air Strength Base.[9] [ten] [xi]

Units marked GSU are Geographically Dissever Units, which although based at Robins, are subordinate to a parent unit based at another location.

U.s.a. Air Force [edit]

Museum of Aviation [edit]

Nearly the base of operations is the Museum of Aviation,[12] begun in 1981, has iv major structures on its 51 acres and more than 85 celebrated aircraft. The museum is also dwelling house to the Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame which honors outstanding Georgians prominent in aviation.

The approximate 85 shipping and missiles on display include a B-1, a B-52, an F-fifteen, an F-sixteen, an SR-71, a Marietta, Georgia-built B-29, and a C-123 modified every bit a sprayer aircraft that was used by the U.South. armed forces equally part of its Agent Orange herbicidal warfare plan (Performance Ranch Manus) during the Vietnam War.

It has become a major regional educational and historical resource that hosts more than 500,000 visitors annually.

Geography [edit]

The base is located in northeastern Houston County, bordered to the west by the metropolis of Warner Robins. The Ocmulgee River is to the e. Information technology is 17 miles (27 km) south of Macon.

Demographics [edit]

The base is the single largest industrial complex in Georgia, employing a workforce of over 25,584 noncombatant, contractor, and military members.[13]

As of the 2010 census, the residential population on the base was 1,170,[14] in 231 households, 203 of which were families. There were 245 housing units. The racial makeup of the base residents was 72.6% White, 18.v% Black or African American, 0.3% Native American, 2.1% Asian, 0.vi% Pacific Islander, 0.six% some other race, and 5.iii% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of whatsoever race were 9.2% of the population.[15]

72.iii% of the households had children under the age of xviii living with them, 75.3% were headed by married couples living together, seven.4% had a female person householder with no hubby present, and 12.ane% were non-families. xi.seven% of all households were made up of individuals, and none had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was three.33, and the average family unit size was 3.62.[15]

28.4% of the residential population were under the age of 18, 38.4% were from 18 to 24, 27.5% were from 25 to 44, 5.ii% were from 45 to 64, and 0.five% were 65 years of historic period or older. The median historic period was 21.5 years. For every 100 females, at that place were 157.1 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 196.1 males.[15]

For the period 2011–fifteen, the estimated median annual income for a household in the base of operations was $62,125, and the median income for a family was $62,375. Male full-fourth dimension workers had a median income of $28,529 versus $35,500 for females. The per capita income for the base was $20,122. About 7.8% of families and eight.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 11.iv% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over.[16]

Tornadoes [edit]

As with the adjacent city of Warner Robins, tornadoes take continually plagued the base since its inception with the 1950s seeing at to the lowest degree 2 catastrophic tornadoes strike the area. The start one occurred on 30 April 1953, when an F4 tornado with winds of over 200 mph hit the base of operations, killing 18 people and injuring 300 more.[17] [18] Just x months after on March xiii, 1954, a long-tracked F1 tornado struck the base, killing one and injuring 5.[nineteen] To engagement, at least seven tornadoes have hit the base and the surrounding expanse.[20]

See besides [edit]

  • Air Combat Control
  • Air Force Materiel Command
  • Air Materiel Control
  • Georgia Earth State of war Ii Army Airfields
  • Museum of Aviation (Warner Robins)

References [edit]

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Strength Historical Research Bureau website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.
Public Domain This article incorporates public domain fabric from the The states Authorities document: "Robins Air Force Base".

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External links [edit]

  • Resources for this U.S. war machine airport:
    • FAA airport information for WRB
    • AirNav airport data for KWRB
    • ASN accident history for WRB
    • NOAA/NWS latest weather observations
    • SkyVector aeronautical chart for KWRB

Robins Air Force Base New Year Baby 1994

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