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  • Photo shows four uniformed men standing in front of large aircraft.

    Liberaider’s 20-year military career spent supporting JSTARS mission

    Master Sgt. Hugh Hermes, 461st Air Control Wing Plans and Programs superintendent reflects on 20 years with the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System mission.
  • Photo shows group of Airmen standing in front of aircraft.

    JSTARS all-African American flight crew makes history

    A crew of 33 E-8C Joint STARS aviators made history Feb. 19, when the first all-African American flight crew in JSTARS history flew from Robins Air Force Base on a training mission.
  • Photo shows two Airmen putting on chem gear with green smoke behind them.

    Team JSTARS 2020 Operational Readiness Assessment tests units’ skills in life-like setting

    The 461st and 116th Air Control Wings, and the 128th Military Intelligence Company, with support from the 78th Air Base Wing, recently put their knowledge to the test at the Team JSTARS 2020 Operational Readiness Assessment. The exercise unfolded at various locations around Robins Air Force Base and the Perry, Georgia, Airport.
  • Airmen wearing goggles

    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 and enhance mission effectiveness for Team JSTARS members.
  • Photo shows two Airmen wearing face masks working on rigging.

    Eyes in the sky: Team JSTARS stays focused on mission, keeps warfighter support on target

    U.S. adversaries are always at work, plotting our forces’ demise, but the 461st and 116th Air Control Wings are working together as an integrated force that always has the warfighter’s back around the clock.
  • An E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System returns at sunset from a combat mission Sept. 12, 2016, at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar.

    End of an Era: JSTARS flies last sortie out of CENTCOM

    An 18-year long deployment of the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System aircraft to the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, and the second longest deployment in U.S. Air Force history, came to an end Oct. 1, 2019. Just before sunrise, Col. Konata Crumbly, 116th Air Control Wing commander and Joint STARS aircraft commander, pulled back the flight controls and lifted the aircraft from the runway on the last Joint STARS sortie leaving Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, marking the end of an era.
  • Team Robins “sparks” innovation: Spark Cell hosts inaugural Pitch Day

    Team Robins “sparks” innovation: Spark Cell hosts inaugural Pitch Day

    The Robins Spark Cell hosted its Inaugural Pitch Day Sept. 20 at the Advanced Technology and Training Center in Warner Robins, alongside Air Force Sustainment Center Contracting located at Robins Air Force Base. The pitch day is a first of its kind for AFSC, cutting a process that can take, on average, 100 days, down to just six.
  • An F-15E Strike Eagle basks in the late evening light after escaping Hurricane Dorian's path and relocating to Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, Sept. 4, 2019. The F-15E is assigned to the 4th Fighter Wing, Seymour-Johnson AFB, North Carolina, as part of Air Combat Command. Team Tinker executed an existing agreement with Seymour-Johnson AFB, North Carolina and Warner-Robins AFB, Georgia to host fighters, tankers and reconnaissance aircraft far away from the devastating hurricane impacting the East Coast of the United States. (U.S. Air Force photo/Greg L. Davis)

    Team Tinker provides refuge for aircraft evacuating Hurricane Dorian

    When Hurricane Dorian appeared on radar to hit Georgia and the Carolinas this week, nearly a quarter of a million residents evacuated the coast and they’re not the only ones who took security measures ahead of the category two storm’s arrival.
  • Airmen adjust a maintenance stand on an E-8C Joint STARS aircraft at Robins Air Force Base, Ga., Sept. 2, 2019, ahead of Hurricane Dorian. The Joint STARS aircraft belonging to the Georgia Air National Guard’s 116th Air Control Wing, relocated to Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., in preparation for Hurricane Dorian’s potential arrival on the eastern coast of Georgia. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by 1st Lt. Dustin Cole)

    116th Air Control Wing evacuates JSTARS aircraft ahead of Hurricane Dorian

    The 116th Air Control Wing, Georgia Air National Guard, began relocating the fleet of E-8C Joint STARS aircraft stationed on the installation, Sept. 2, to prevent potential damage from Hurricane Dorian. The Joint STARS have relocated temporarily to Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, where they will wait while Hurricane Dorian travels up the eastern coast of the United States.
  • U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Joseph Pierce, a sheet metal technician with the 116th Air Control Wing aircraft structural maintenance section, Georgia Air National Guard, utilizes a hydraulic press with the newly-created cowling fixture table April 3, 2019, at Robins AFB, Ga.

    Team JSTARS maintainers design tool saving Air Force estimated $500k yearly

    Eight Airmen from Team JSTARS at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, recently designed an innovative tool estimated to save the Air Force nearly $500k a year in cowling repairs for the E-8C Joint STARS aircraft. The cowling fixture table, an approved tool intended for field-level repairs, was a response to a challenge set by leadership. “The supply system could not meet the demand requirements for these cowlings,” said Col. Robert Nash, commander of the 116th Maintenance Group, Georgia Air National Guard. “We needed a sufficient capacity to support the warfighter.”
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