AFMC Command News

  • Commander's Log: RtFC & Memorial Day Note

    Test Center Family,It’s hard to believe how much our world has changed in a few short months. The COVID-19 pandemic has shattered our daily routines and affected every one of us, personally and professionally. In the turmoil since March, one of the few things I’ve known for certain is that AFTC

  • Robins Frontlines: Jean Rader

    Jean Rader, Robins Air Force Base Commissary supervisory store associate, maintains front end store operations amid the fight against COVID-19.The commissary carries a wide variety of grocery items as well as fresh deli sandwiches, rotisserie chicken, sushi, baked goods and cakes available all

  • Tinker Frontlines: Meet Jacquline “Jae” Grinston

    Tinker Frontlines: Meet Jacquline “Jae” GrinstonJacquline “Jae” Grinston is a training specialist in the 72nd Force Support Squadron.Grinston has 22 years of combined service, military and civilian. A highlight of her military career happened in 2000 when she was stationed at Dyess Air Force Base,

  • 78th MDG laboratory performs in-house COVID-19 tests

    The 78th Medical Group Clinical Laboratory at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, activated their in-house COVID-19 molecular testing capabilities May 7, becoming the first Air Force Sustainment Center clinic to offer in-house COVID-19 testing.

  • AFMC preparing for next phase of COVID-19 operations

    As states across the U.S. begin to slowly reopen their economies, Air Force Materiel Command leaders are similarly readying to return to full mission capacity following major disruptions caused by COVID-19.The plan is for AFMC’s six centers and eight installations to reconstitute and begin to reopen

  • Center begins phased return to full capacity

    The Air Force Sustainment Center is beginning a phased “Return to Full Capacity” at all of its locations after recent adjustments to operations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.Each wing and Complex within AFSC is implementing return measures informed by local public health conditions and

  • Virtual JSTARS: Training enters virtual reality

    Virtual reality is coming to the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System aircraft in a collaboration with the 116th Air Control Wing and the 461st Air Control Wing at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. A VR Maintenance and Operations Training Program has been created to supplement training

  • Robins Frontlines: Summer Brannigan

    Summer Brannigan, 559th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron production support technician, plays a vital role within the C-5 Galaxy Enterprise. In her position, Brannigan schedules C-5 aircraft maintenance and ensures parts, kits, and mission partner support are ordered and in place for C-5 aircraft on

  • Air Force announces 2019 athletes of the year

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – The Air Force recently named its male and female 2019 athletes of the year.  They are a world-class handball player and a top equestrian.The Air Force’s Female Athlete of the Year is Maj. Andrea D. Matesick.Matesick, the chief of safety and a T-38C instructor

  • Flashback: The Navaho Missile: Part 2

    Note:  This is part two of a series on the Navaho Missile. Part one can be viewed at The Navaho Missile: Part 1.As Phase 1 testing of the X-10 Program came to an end, the flight test portion for Phase 2 began to ramp up at the Air Force Missile Test Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. From the

  • AEDC hypersonic test team presses on during pandemic

    Seven Hroncich, left, an instrument technician, Robert Bradford, center right, an electrician, Kevin Thompson, right, test operations engineer, Tim Mullins, an outside machinist, and others prepare for a test run in the Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) Arcs Test Facility Control Room,

  • Tinker Frontlines: Meet Diann Riter

    Tinker Frontlines: Meet Diann RiterDiann Riter is the Installation Emergency Manager at the Emergency Operations Center and has served in this position for over seven years.Riter, originally from Scotch Plains, New Jersey, has spent 16 years in civil service and is an Air Force retiree.In her free