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DID YOU KNOW?

Companies such as Haeco, Honeywell,
Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman,
Raytheon, and others support the activities
at Robins Air Force
Base and provide
additional jobs
within the region.

military

and aerospace

Peaches to Planes – A Great Partnership

In the Robins Region, our airmen work and adapt the Air Force
way of life, building strong, self-sufficient communities to protect their
families. Many of the 21,000 people employed by nearby Robins Air Force
Base are active citizens of our community.

eople often describe the Today, Robins Air Force Base consists Other military Senior Airman Ian, Bailey
78th Security Forces Squadron
relationship between the of almost 7,000 acres and is the largest units and organizations photo by Ed Aspera
community and base as industrial complex in Georgia. The that call Robins Air Force
“Peaches to Planes. The economic impact of the base is quite Base “home” include Head-
Greatest Partnership,” car- extensive. With an annual federal payroll quarters, U.S. Air Force Reserve
Prying on an alliance that of $1.32 billion, $435.5 million in annual Command; the 78th Air Base
began in 1941 when the Army Air Depot expenditures, and the value of indirect Wing; the 116th and 461st Air
first brought aircraft to what was then a jobs created estimated to be $1.1 billion, Control Wings; the 5th Combat
the base is reported to have an annual
very small Georgia town. Communications Group; the 638th
economic impact on the region and state
Supply Chain Management Group; and
of about $2.86 billion.
several Defense Logistics Agency and Air
• ON A MISSION • Force Life Cycle Management activities.

Robins Air Force Base is home to one of • T HE PLACE TO LIVE AND WORK •
only three Air Force air logistics complexes.
At the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex More than 75 percent of Robins’
(WR-ALC) some of the most highly trained workforce is from Middle Georgia’s
and proficient workers in the world repair 25 counties. Currently, more than 120
and modify military aircraft such as the aerospace companies maintain facilities
F-15 Eagle, C-130 Hercules, C-5 Galaxy, in the Robins Region to provide aircraft
and C-17 Globemaster III. repair, avionics, electronics, engineering,

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