Robins Air Force Base is a major

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installation located in Houston County, Georgia, United States. The base is located just east of the city of Warner Robins, south-southeast of Macon and approximately south-southeast of

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, Georgia. The base is named in honor of

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Augustine Warner Robins General Augustine Warner Robins (September 29, 1882 – June 16, 1940) is often credited as the Father of Logistics in the modern United States Air Force, then known as the Army Air Corps. He was instrumental in the establishment of the first ...

, the Air Force's "father of logistics". Robins AFB is the home of the Air Force Materiel Command's

Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex The Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex (WR-ALC), through about 7,000 employees at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, provides depot maintenance, engineering support and software development to major weapon systems -15, C-5, C-130, C-17 and Special ...

(WR-ALC) (FLZ) which is the worldwide manager for a wide range of aircraft, engines, missiles, software and avionics and accessories components. The commander of WR-ALC is Brigadier General Jennifer Hammerstedt. It is one of three Air Force Air Logistic Complexes, the others being Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex (OC-ALC) at

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, 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 The 78th Air Base Wing is a wing of the United States Air Force stationed at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. The 78th acts as the host unit at Robins. The wing was first activated as the 78th Fighter Wing in September 1948 as part of the wing ...

(78 ABW) which provides services and support for the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex and its tenant organizations.

History

The War Department, in search of a site for an Army Air Corps Depot, selected the sleepy whistle-stop town known as Wellston, Georgia, 18 miles south of Macon. Army Colonel Charles Thomas, originally from Atlanta, landed at the Herbert Smart Airport near 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 (later to become Robins AFB).''The Father of AF Logistics: The Life and Times of Brig. Gen. Augustine Warner Robins'' (RCS HAF-CHO(AR) 7101); William Head, PhD; Office of History, WR-ALC, Air Force Logistics Command, Robins AFB, GA, 1991 It was Col. Thomas who chose the name Robins for his mentor Brig. Gen.

. Brig. Gen. Robins is considered the "father of logistics" in the United States Air Force for his system 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 against

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. He trained during World War I to become a pilot earning his wings in June 1918. He didn't get to see combat because the war was ending. Robins suffered a near-fatal plane crash in 1921 in which his jaw and arm were severely broken. Brig. Gen. Robins died of a heart attack on Father's Day, 16 June 1940 at Randolph Field, Texas, while he was Commandant of the Air Corps Training Center. Robinsaaf-2-1944

After World War II, the number of military and civilian employees dropped until in March 1946 it reached a total of only 3,900. The workforce grew again as the base supported the

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, until by 1949 the workforce had grown again to 11,000. When the Air Force closed down its maintenance depots at the former Brookley AFB in Mobile, Alabama and the former Olmsted AFB in Middleton Township,

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, Robins AFB assumed the workload of these depots. On 28 October 1949, Robins AFB became the headquarters of the 14th Air Force, the numbered air force responsible for administering the Air Force Reserve and the Air National Guard. Some Robins AFB SAC units went to

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or Vietnam during the

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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-7, and the F-15 Eagle as well as modifying the C-130s to the gunship configuration. Robins played a key role in the

(1964–73), supplying troops and materiel through the Southeast Asian Pipeline and modifying AC-119G/K and AC-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

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. In October 1983, C-130s from Robins supported U.S. forces in the invasion of Grenada. Between 1977 and 1981, Robins was the air base used by former President

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during his tenure on visits to his hometown of

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. SAC's B-52s left Robins in 1983 leaving the 19th Wing as the sole SAC unit on the base with its KC-135s.

Modern era

In 1990–91, during the

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, Robins provided record numbers of parts, repairs, and personnel to coalition forces in the Persian Gulf. Robins-maintained F-15 Eagles and the

E-8 Joint STARS The Northrop Grumman E-8 Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) is a United States Air Force airborne ground surveillance, battle management and command and control aircraft. It tracks ground vehicles and some aircraft, col ...

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

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n president

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. In 1996, the

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's 116th Fighter Wing at

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relinquished their

F-15 The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle is an American twin-engine, all-weather tactical fighter aircraft designed by McDonnell Douglas (now part of Boeing). Following reviews of proposals, the United States Air Force selected McDonnell Douglas's ...

aircraft and moved to Robins, transitioning to

B-1 Lancer The Rockwell B-1 Lancer is a supersonic variable-sweep wing, heavy bomber used by the United States Air Force. It is commonly called the "Bone" (from "B-One"). It is one of three strategic bombers serving in the U.S. Air Force fleet along with ...

bombers and being redesignated as the 116th Bomb Wing. That same year, the former 93rd Bomb Wing at Robins was reactivated as the 93rd Air Control Wing with the

aircraft. In 2001, the B-1 bombers left Robins AFB and the Georgia Air National Guard entered into a merged Active-Guard "associate" wing arrangement in the Joint STARS mission with the active Air Force, with the Air National Guard holding lead responsibility as the

116th Air Control Wing The 116th Air Control Wing is a Wing of the Georgia Air National Guard/United States Air Force, stationed at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. If activated for federal service, the wing is gained by Air Combat Command. The 116th ACW is the only Air ...

. The Warner Robins Air Logistic Complex and Robins AFB form the largest single industrial complex in the State of Georgia. The 23,000 civilian employees have an annual payroll over $1 billion. The Logistic Complex manages and overhauls the

C-5 Galaxy The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy is a large military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed, and now maintained and upgraded by its successor, Lockheed Martin. It provides the United States Air Force (USAF) with a heavy intercontinental-rang ...

, C-130 Hercules, and the

AC-130 The Lockheed AC-130 gunship is a heavily armed, long-endurance, ground-attack variant of the C-130 Hercules transport, fixed-wing aircraft. It carries a wide array of ground-attack weapons that are integrated with sophisticated sensors, naviga ...

gunships—and all of the Air Force's helicopters. In addition, the Complex also supports the

C-17 Globemaster III The McDonnell Douglas/Boeing C-17 Globemaster III is a large military transport aircraft that was developed for the United States Air Force (USAF) from the 1980s to the early 1990s by McDonnell Douglas. The C-17 carries forward the name of t ...

and U-2 aircraft. Until June 2008, Robins was also the home of the

KC-135 The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker is an American military aerial refueling aircraft that was developed from the Boeing 367-80 prototype, alongside the Boeing 707 airliner. It is the predominant variant of the C-135 Stratolifter family of transpo ...

s of the

19th Air Refueling Group The 19th Operations Group (19 OG) is the operational flying component of the United States Air Force 19th Airlift Wing, stationed at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas. Equipped with the Lockheed C-130 Hercules, the group provides part of ...

, when the unit was inactivated, then reactivated a month later as the

19th Airlift Wing The 19th Airlift Wing is a United States Air Force unit assigned to the Air Mobility Command's Eighteenth Air Force. It is stationed at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas. The wing is also the host unit at Little Rock. The Wing provides t ...

Little Rock AFB Little Rock Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located approximately northeast of Little Rock, Arkansas. Little Rock AFB is the primary C-130 Hercules training base for the Department of Defense, training C-130 pilots, navigat ...

, Arkansas. The E-8s of the

continues to operate at Robins as a combined Regular Air Force and

air control wing, and the headquarters of the Air Force Reserve Command is also located on the base. The metropolis of

Warner Robins, Georgia Warner Robins (typically ) is a city in the U.S. state of Georgia, located in Houston and Peach counties in the central part of the state. It is currently Georgia's eleventh-largest incorporated city, with an estimated population of 80,308 in t ...

, has grown in proportion to become the sixth largest city in Georgia. Main Gate - Robins AFB

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. L-3 Link (a subsidiary of the former

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) operated the official C-27J schoolhouse at the Georgia Department of Defense's Fixed Wing Flight Facility at Robins AFB. This flight facility included training classrooms, computer learning center, a 100-person auditorium, flight planning, and fight operations areas. The facility also housed the resident Government Flight Representative and Aviation Program Team assigned to the C-27J contract. Fixed Wing Flight Facility Robins AFB is also home of Hotel Company, 171st Aviation Regiment,

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, flying the cargo delivery

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. The schoolhouse was deactivated when the Air Force divested its C-27J fleet as part of the 2014 National Defence Authorization Act. On 1 April 2016, an EF-1 tornado ripped through the northeast corner of Centerville and continued over Robins Air Force Base, ripping off hangar roofs. Robins was one of several filming locations used in the 2020 disaster film ''

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'', with the protagonist and his family being sent to the base to be evacuated in advance of a catastrophic comet impact.

Major commands

* Air Service Command, 22 July 1942 : Redesignated: Army Air Forces Materiel and Services Command, 17 July 1944 : Redesignated: Army Air Forces Technical Service Command, 31 August 1944 : Redesignated: Air Technical Service Command, 1 July 1945 : Redesignated: Air Materiel Command, 9 March 1946 : Redesignated: Air Force Logistics Command, 1 April 1961 – 1 July 1992 * Air Force Materiel Command, 1 June 1992 – present * Air Force Reserve Command, 17 February 1997–present

Major units assigned

* 4th Station Complement Squadron : Operating from Herbert Smart Airport, Macon, Georgia, 11 April 1942 – 18 August 1942 : Operating from Robins Field, 18 August 1942 – 4 January 1943 * Wellston Air Depot : Redesignated: Warner Robins Air Depot, 22 June 1942 : Redesignated: Warner Robins Depot Area Command, 3 January 1945 : Redesignated: Warner Robins Air Service Center, TBD : Redesignated: Warner Robins Air Technical Service Center, TBD : Redesignated: Warner Robins Air Material Area, 21 May 1951 : Redesignated: Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, 1 April 1961 – present * 469th Base HQ and Air Base Sq, 4 January 1943 – 16 June 1943 * HQ Robins Fld, 16 June 1943 – 1 April 1944 * 4117th AAF Base Unit, 3 January 1945 : Redesignated: 4117th AF Base Unit, 26 September 1947 : Redesignated: HQ, Warner Robins Air Materiel Area, 28 August 1948 : Redesignated: HQ, Warner Robins Air Materiel Area, 21 May 1951 : Redesignated: HQ, Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, 1 April 1961 – present * 2104th Air Weather Group ( Military Air Transport Service (MATS)), 1 June 1948 – 24 October 1950 * 1727th Air Transport Squadron (MATS), 9 October 1948 – 1 November 1954 * HQ, Fourteenth Air Force, 29 October 1949 – 1 September 1960 * 2853d Air Base Wing, 1 August 1953 : Redesignated: 2853d Air Base Gp, 16 October 1964–1994 * 7th Air Transport Squadron (MATS), 18 October 1954 – 8 January 1966 * 4137th Strategic Wing ( Strategic Air Command (SAC)), 1 February 1959 – 1 February 1963 * HQ,

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, 16 April 1961 – 1 August 1968 * 465th Bombardment Wing (SAC), 1 February 1963 – 25 July 1968 * 58th Military Airlift Squadron (MAC), 6 January 1966 – 15 August 1971 * 19th Bombardment Wing (SAC), 25 July 1968 : Redesignated: 19th Air Refueling Wing (SAC), 1 October 1983 : Redesignated: 19th Air Refueling Group (Air Mobility Command), 1 July 1996 – 30 September 2008 * HQ, Air Force Reserve (Agency), 1 August 1968 : Redesignated: HQ, Air Force Reserve Command (MAJCOM), 17 February 1997 – present *

, 1 October 1994–present * 461st Air Control Wing, 2011–present *

, 1995–present * 330th Aircraft Sustainment Wing, 2005 – 2010 *

402d Maintenance Wing The 402nd Maintenance Wing, sometimes written as 402d Maintenance Wing, (402 MXW) is an inactive wing of the United States Air Force last based at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. As a maintenance wing it provided depot maintenance, engineerin ...

, 2005 – 2012 * 542d Combat Sustainment Wing, 2005 – 2010

Role and operations

Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex The Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex (WR-ALC), through about 7,000 employees at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, provides depot maintenance, engineering support and software development to major weapon systems -15, C-5, C-130, C-17 and Special ...

Has worldwide management and engineering responsibility for the repair, modification and overhaul of the F-15 Eagle, C-130 Hercules,

, and

, C-5M Super Galaxy, Boeing F-15E Strike Eagle, RQ-4A Global Hawk, Sikorsky HH-60G Pave Hawk aircraft. In addition to these weapon systems, the ALC has worldwide management responsibility for the U-2S Dragon Lady, all Air Force helicopters, all special operations aircraft and their peculiar avionics systems. The center also provides logistic support for all the

, Air Force missiles, vehicles, general purpose computers, and many avionics and electronic warfare systems used on most Air Force aircraft. Through about 7,000 employees, the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex (WR-ALC) provides depot maintenance, engineering support and software development to major weapon systems -15, C-5, 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, aircraft battle damage repair and a ready source of maintenance of critical items. Reorganized on 17 July 2012 from an Air Logistics Center to an Air Logistics Complex, it currently consists of five Groups --- see below.

78th Air Base Wing The 78th Air Base Wing is a wing of the United States Air Force stationed at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. The 78th acts as the host unit at Robins. The wing was first activated as the 78th Fighter Wing in September 1948 as part of the wing ...

The wing provides support for Robins AFB and its 39 associate units. Responsible for logistics readiness, medical, civil engineer, security, comptroller activities, contracting, morale and welfare, mission support, public affairs, legal civilian personnel, environmental management, fire emergency services, and emergency management 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)

Provides Programmed Depot Maintenance (PDM) and unscheduled repair activities on F-15, C-130, C-5 and C-17 aircraft. 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 Commodities Maintenance Group (402 CMXG)

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

402d Electronics Maintenance Group (402 EMXG)

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

402d Maintenance Support Group (402 MXSG)

Provides logistics support for depot maintenance repair facilities and provides plant facilities, equipment engineering, calibration, and installation support 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 Group (402 SWEG)

Serves as the single organic source of Mission Critical Computer Resources and Automatic Test Equipment software for all assigned prime systems and equipment and for all echelons of maintenance requiring computer 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 assistance to identify and correct 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 Automatic Test Systems focal point for the wing.

Tenant Units

* Air Force Reserve Command Headquarters * 492nd Special Operations Wing (Detachment 1) * 461st Air Control Wing USAF *

Georgia ANG *

689th Combat Communications Wing The 689th Combat Communications Wing was a wing of the United States Air Force stationed at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. The wing was activated on 9October 2009 as a subordinate unit of Twenty-Fourth Air Force. On 5June 2013, the wing was in ...

5th Combat Communications Group The 5th Combat Communications Group is a specialized unit of the United States Air Force. The 5th Mob (referred to as such by its former designation as the 5th Mobile Communications Group) is currently based at Robins Air Force Base in Warner Ro ...

* 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 Robins may refer to: Places United States *Robins, Iowa, a small city * Robins, Ohio, an unincorporated community * Robins Township, Fall River County, South Dakota * Robins Island, of the coast of New York state *Robins Air Force Base, Georgia *R ...

Air Force Metrology and Calibration Program Office AFMETCAL (Air Force METrology and CALibration Program Office), located in Heath, Ohio is the primary manager of metrology services for the U.S. Air Force. It retains engineering authority for all calibrations performed in the PMEL labs throughout ...

(AFMETCAL)

Based units

Flying and notable non-flying units based at Robins Air Force Base. Units marked GSU are

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s, which although based at Robins, are subordinate to a parent unit based at another location.

United States Air Force

Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) *

(Host wing) ** Headquarters 78th Air Base Wing ** 78th Comptroller Squadron ** 78th Operations Support Squadron ** 78th Civil Engineering Group *** 78th Civil Engineer Squadron *** 778th Civil Engineer Squadron *** Engineering Division *** Installation Management Division ** 78th Communications and Information Directorate *** Special Mission Division *** Operations Division *** Resource and Planning Division ** 78th Medical Group *** 78th Aerospace Medicine Squadron *** 78th Medical Operations Squadron *** 78th Medical Support Squadron ** 78th Mission Support Group *** 78th Force Support Squadron *** 78 Logistics Readiness Squadron *** 78th Security Forces Squadron * Air Force Sustainment Center **

*** 402nd Aircraft Maintenance Group **** 402nd Commodities Maintenance Group **** 402nd Electronics Maintenance Group **** 402nd Maintenance Support Group **** 402nd Software Maintenance Group **** 402nd Business Development & Partnership ** 448th Supply Chain Management Wing *** 638th Supply Chain Management Group (GSU) **** 406th Supply Chain Management Squadron **** 407th Supply Chain Management Squadron **** 408th Supply Chain Management Squadron **** 409th Supply Chain Management Squadron **** 410th Supply Chain Management Squadron **** 411th Supply Chain Management Squadron *

Air Force Life Cycle Management Center The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC), headquartered at Wright-Patterson AFB, is one of six centers reporting to the Air Force Materiel Command.AIR FORCE LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT CENTER (AFLCMC) Posted 8/3/2012 Printable Fact Sheet Led ...

** Armament Directorate *** Specialized Management Division (GSU) ** Battle Management Directorate *** Command & Control, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Program Office (GSU) *** JSTARS Program Office (GSU) ** Mobility Directorate *** C-5 Division (GSU) *** C-17 Division (GSU) *** Tactical Air Division (GSU) ** Fighters/Bombers Directorate *** F-15 Division (GSU) ** ISR/SOF Directorate *** Special Operations Forces/Personnel Recovery Division (GSU) *** Predator/Reaper Branch (GSU) *** Global Hawk Branch (GSU) *** U-2 Division (GSU) Air Combat Command (ACC) * Fifteenth Air Force ** 461st Air Control Wing *** Headquarters 461st Air Control Wing *** 461st Operations Group **** 12th Airborne Command and Control Squadron – E-8C JSTARS ****

16th Airborne Command and Control Squadron The 16th Airborne Command and Control Squadron is a United States Air Force squadron assigned to Air Combat Command's 461st Air Control Wing, 461st Operations Group, stationed at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. The squadron previously flew the ...

– E-8C JSTARS **** 330th Combat Training Squadron *** 461st Maintenance Group *

Sixteenth Air Force The Sixteenth Air Force (Air Forces Cyber) (16 AF) is a United States Air Force (USAF) organization responsible for information warfare, which encompasses intelligence gathering and analysis, surveillance, reconnaissance, cyber warfare and ele ...

688th Cyberspace Wing The United States Air Force's 688th Cyberspace Wing is a cyberspace operations unit located at Joint Base San Antonio (Lackland), Texas. The wing delivers information operations and engineering infrastructure for air, space, and cyberspace mil ...

***

(GSU) **** 5th Combat Communications Support Squadron **** 51st Combat Communications Squadron ****

52d Combat Communications Squadron The 52d Combat Communications Squadron is located in Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. It is currently under the command of the 5th Combat Communications Group The 5th Combat Communications Group is a specialized unit of the United States Air F ...

Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) * Headquarters Air Force Reserve Command *

Twenty-Second Air Force Twenty-Second Air Force (22 AF) is a Numbered Air Force component of Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC). It was activated on 1 July 1993 and is headquartered at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Georgia. In the event of mobilization, some of the Twenty ...

** 94th Airlift Wing *** 94th Mission Support Group **** 94th Aerial Port Squadron (GSU) *

413th Flight Test Group The 413th Flight Test Group (413 FTG) is a United States Air Force Air Force Reserve Command unit. It is stationed at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia as a tenant unit. The 413 FTG conducts flight tests on aircraft after the programmed depot m ...

** Headquarters 413th Flight Test Group **

339th Flight Test Squadron The 339th Flight Test Squadron is a United States Air Force unit based at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. It is part of the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, with a mission to certify aircraft as worthy to return to service. The squadron ...

** 413th Aeromedical Staging Squadron ** 413th Force Support Flight **

Tenth Air Force The Tenth Air Force (10 AF) is a unit of the U.S. Air Force, specifically a numbered air force of the Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC). 10 AF is headquartered at Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base/Carswell Field (formerly Carswel ...

*** 960th Cyberspace Wing **** 960th Cyberspace Operations Group ***** 55th Combat Communications Squadron (GSU) Air National Guard (ANG) *

*** Headquarters 116th Air Control Wing *** 116th Operations Group **** 128th Airborne Command and Control Squadron – E-8C JSTARS *** 116th Maintenance Group *** 116th Mission Support Group *** 116th Medical Group ***

202nd Engineering Installation Squadron The 202nd Engineering Installation Squadron is a unit of the Georgia Air National Guard. The installation, repair and serviceability of sophisticated command, control, communications, intelligence, intelligence, surveillance, and air reconnaissa ...

United States Army

Military Intelligence Corps * Intelligence and Security Command ** 116th Military Intelligence Brigade *** 138th Military Intelligence Company Army National Guard (ARNG) *

** 78th Aviation Troop Command *** Army Fixed Wing Support Activity

Defence Logistics Agency

* DLA Aviation * DLA Disposition * DLA Distribution * DLA Document Services * DLA Energy facilities

Museum of Aviation

Near the base is the Museum of Aviation, begun in 1981, has four major structures on its 51 acres and more than 85 historic aircraft. The museum is also home to the

Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame The Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame recognizes aviation pioneers and contributors associated with the state of Georgia. The museum was created in 1989 by Governor Joe Frank Harris signing House Bill 110. The law called for a 15-member board to overse ...

which honors outstanding Georgians prominent in aviation. The approximate 85 aircraft and missiles on display include a B-1, a B-52, an F-15, an F-16, an SR-71, a

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-built B-29, and a C-123 modified as a sprayer aircraft that was used by the U.S. military as part of its Agent Orange herbicidal warfare program (Operation Ranch Hand) during the Vietnam War. It has become a major regional educational and historical resource that hosts more than 500,000 visitors annually.

Geography

The base is located in northeastern Houston County, bordered to the west by the city of Warner Robins. The

Ocmulgee River The Ocmulgee River () is a western tributary of the Altamaha River, approximately 255 mi (410 km) long, in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the westernmost major tributary of the Altamaha.

is to the east. It is south of Macon.

Demographics

The base is the single largest industrial complex in Georgia, employing a workforce of over 25,584 civilian, contractor, and military members. The portion of the base occupied by housing is counted as a

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the count ...

for statistical purposes with a residential population at the 2020 census of 1,061.

Tornadoes

As with the adjacent city of Warner Robins, tornadoes have continually plagued the base since its inception with the 1950s seeing at least two catastrophic tornadoes strike the area. The first one occurred on 30 April 1953, when an F4 tornado with winds of over 200 mph hit the base, killing 18 people near the base and injuring 300 more. Just ten months later on March 13, 1954, a long-tracked F1 tornado struck the base, killing one and injuring five. To date, at least seven tornadoes have hit the base and the surrounding area.

References

* Ravenstein, Charles A. ''Air Force Combat Wings Lineage and Honors Histories 1947–1977''. Maxwell Air Force Base,

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: Office of Air Force History 1984. . * Mueller, Robert, ''Air Force Bases Volume I, Active Air Force Bases Within the United States of America on 17 September 1982'', Office of Air Force History, 1989 * Shettle, M. L. (2005), Georgia's Army Airfields of World War II. *Ryan Winkle. 4\25 BSTB Fort Richardson Alaska: STP-21-1-SMCT: Department of the Army- ATSE-DOT-DD: Directorate of Tranining:320 Engineer Loop-Suite 336-Fort-Leonard-Wood-MIssouri-65473-8929:Joint-Engineer-Operations:Field-Manual:5-34

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Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex The Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex (WR-ALC), through about 7,000 employees at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, provides depot maintenance, engineering support and software development to major weapon systems -15, C-5, C-130, C-17 and Special ...

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