AFMC Command News

  • Robins Airman found guilty on all charges

    A military jury has unanimously found Senior Airman Andrew Paul Witt guilty of two specifications of premeditated murder in the July 5, 2004, stabbing deaths of Senior Airman Andrew Schliepsiek and his wife, Jamie. Airman Witt was also found guilty Oct. 5 of one specification of attempted

  • Airman sentenced to death

    Senior Airman Andrew Paul Witt, the Robins Airman found guilty last week of two specifications of premeditated murder and one specification of attempted premeditated murder, has been sentenced to death by a military panel.The 23-year-old Airman is now the only Air Force member to sit on death

  • Security Forces from Hanscom deploy to stricken Gulf Coast

    The Hanscom community, like the rest of the nation, is banding together to do its part to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Over the Labor Day holiday weekend, yard sales and lemonade stands manned by Hanscom children popped up around base housing areas to benefit hurricane victims. In

  • Flight testers 'propel' Hurricane Hunters through Katrina

    As Air Force people across the country worked to provide immediate aid to the Gulf Coast through airlift, medical services, engineering, communications, and more, flight test experts at Edwards are looking toward future hurricanes.Using Katrina as a "target of opportunity," members of the 418th

  • Small base brings big assets to bear on recovery

    Small teams of doctors, medical technicians, environmental engineers and epidemiologists from the 311th Human Systems Wing have been immersed since Sept. 2 in hurricane relief operations along the Gulf Coast.By Tuesday, Air Force medics had treated 5,512 injured and sick and aeromedical personnel

  • Displaced personnel visit Keesler AFB for first time after hurricane

    Twenty Keesler Air Force Base, Miss., personnel displaced here by Hurricane Katrina made a bittersweet day trip back to their homes and belongings Sept. 5, just one week after the storm hit areas of the Gulf Coast.Hurricane evacuees piled into a convoy of eight security-escorted vehicles to make the

  • Eglin town hall meeting details help available to evacuees

    More than 200 evacuees from Hurricane Katrina received information and reassurance during a town hall meeting at the base theater Friday. The meeting covered topics ranging from how to get children enrolled in local schools to temporary lodging, entitlements, legal services and even a safety

  • Air Force Materiel Command provides assistance in Katrina's aftermath

    When disaster struck the Gulf Coast states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida last week in the form of Hurricane Katrina, Air Force Materiel Command stood up its Crisis Action Team to assist with relief efforts to the region.Since then, support has come from each of the command's bases -

  • Workers behind Shingo Gold

    When the Lean journey began for the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, few put much stock in where it would lead. Nearly four years later it has become a layman's term synonymous with success and, most recently, excellence in manufacturing.Last week Maj. Gen. Mike Collings, center commander,

  • First officially sanctioned Air Force Marathon draws runners, base community

    Eyes are usually trained on the skies at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Saturday saw attention focused on the ground as the ninth annual U. S. Air Force Marathon was run.There were 3,454 runners from all 50 U.S. states and seven countries who finished the race, surrounded by aviation and