Robins News

Audit: Robins depot overpaid contractors by up to $24 million

13WMAZ Web Staff — Wednesday, February 24th, 7:19 pm

A federal audit says Warner Robins' Air Logistics Center overpaid three contractors by as much as $24 million. Those are the conclusions of an audit by the Department of Defense's Inspector General. Their report says the base failed to negotiate proper rates for work done by workers at the ALC for those contractors. The audit cites contracts...

Robins Air Logistics Complex gets award

13WMAZ Web Staff — Friday, January 29th, 8:41 pm

The Air Force says the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex is the most efficient unit of its kind in the nation. They've been honored with the 2015 Air Force Materiel Command Maintenance Effectiveness Award. The award honors Robins ALC for having record production numbers in 2015. The depot repairs aircraft keeps Air Force maintenance depot...

Museum of Aviation cutting four jobs

13WMAZ Web Staff — Wednesday, January 27th, 8:13 pm

Facing budget problems, Warner Robins' Museum of Aviation says it is laying off four employees. According to a letter from the museum, they are also closing the "unprofitable" Victory Cafe, their small restaurant. According to the letter, the museum's new president, Chrissy Miner, studied financial records and decided they must "significantly reduce their operating budget."...

Robins takes down flyer advertising MLK 'fun shoot'

13WMAZ Web Staff — Thursday, January 14th, 6:38 pm

In a statement to Air Force Times, Robins apologized for the advertising tying the event to the holiday honoring King, who was shot by an assassin in Memphis in 1968. "We're deeply sorry for any offense or harm caused by our insensitivity and failure to provide appropriate oversight of our marketing process," Robins spokesman Roland Leach said in an email Thursday. "The flyer does not...

Robins AFB air show announced for Oct. 2016

13WMAZ Web Staff — Thursday, December 17th, 11:39 am

Officials at Robins Air Force Base announced an upcoming air show for Oct. 1-2, 2016. The last show in 2012 attracted 180,000 spectators. They expect the same amount of spectators at the 2016 show. The announcement was made Thursday at the Museum of Aviation's Century of Flight Hangar. The Thunderbirds, the USAF air demonstration squadron, will participate in the show as well as 15...

Robins Air Force Base to announce plans for 2016 airshow

13WMAZ Web Staff — Wednesday, December 16th, 2:45 pm

Details for the 2016 airshow held at Robins Air Force Base will be announced Thursday. The announcement will be made at the museum's Century of Flight Hangar. PHOTOS: Robins Air Force Base Air Show in 2012

Sen. Perdue discusses ISIS, Robins' future

13WMAZ Web Staff — Tuesday, November 24th, 7:22 pm

U.S. Sen. David Perdue visited Robins Air Force Base Tuesday and came away impressed with the dedicated workforce and its devotion to accomplishing the mission. In a news conference afterwards, Perdue called the lack of funding for the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System "a poster child for bureaucratic malfeasance." Perdue said there are 16 aging JSTARS aircraft...

Col. Jeff King: Robins to hire 400 during next year

Lorra Lynch Jones — Tuesday, November 3rd, 7:55 pm

Col. Jeff King, Commander for the 78th Air Base Wing at Robins Air Force Base, says about 400 jobs will be created or filled in the next year. During a conference with reporters Tuesday morning, King said the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex plans to hire about 200 people to meet requirements for existing workload in the depot. He said most of those jobs will be for mechanics...

Behind the Lines: Robins prop shop keeps C-130s flying

Lorra Lynch Jones — Thursday, October 29th, 6:00 pm

C-130 Hercules airplanes fly people and supplies all around the world supporting the military. When they come home, workers at Robins Air Force Base repair each part including the four propellers onboard. 13WMAZ went Behind the Lines and into the vital mission of the prop shop. About 100 people grind metal in Robins prop shop, but it's the only place in the entire Department of Defense...

Children of Robins Air Force Base General to visit

Friday, October 23rd, 9:29 am

The children of Gen. Augustine Warner Robins will be in town Monday to see the base and community named after their grandfather.Gen. Charles E. Thomas urged local town leaders to rename the town after his former aide, who had worked for him between 1921 and 1927.Thomas renamed the depot Warner Robins Army Air Depot and the base runway Robins Field. Local leaders immediately changed the name to...