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Robins Air Force Base and Georgia Executive Order to Ensure a Safe and Healthy Georgia

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  • 78th Air Base Wing and Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex

2 April 2020

MEMORANDUM FOR ALL ROBINS AFB PERSONNEL

Subject: Robins AFB & Georgia Executive Order to Ensure a Safe and Healthy Georgia

Team Robins,

We have experienced significant change in a remarkably short amount of time due to COVID-19. With this unprecedented change, we also must adapt to successfully combat this virus.

This evening, Governor Kemp announced a statewide executive order that ensures a safe and healthy Georgia and goes into effect tomorrow, 3 April and runs through 13 April. This order requires Georgians to limit travel and activities and shelter-in-place. Robins AFB is in full support of the Governor's order. We ask all of Team Robins to do your individual part in keeping to the requirements of the order, and ensure we are focused on the health and safety of every Team Robins member and their families.

Our missions at Robins remain essential to the defense of our great nation. The executive order outlines the critical infrastructure of the state to include the Defense Industrial Base. As such, Robins Air Force Base will continue our critical operations. Yesterday, the Chief of Staff of the Air Force General Goldfein said, "We are not doing business as usual. We are doing business as required," and gave local commanders discretion to shape the guidance to protect personnel while maintaining the mission. This is what we are doing here at Robins. All 54 Mission Partners play a role in ensuring our base's full mission success.

In keeping with the intent of both Governor Kemp and General Goldfein, to protect our people and ensure we accomplish our mission, we are implementing the following installation changes: effective tomorrow the fitness center will close until further notice. The commissary will remain open, however on Tuesdays and Thursdays we will restrict to Active Duty members (including all on orders), Firefighters, and their immediate family members only- all other hours of operation for the commissary remain the same. For the most up to date list of open facilities, visit our base webpage at https://www.robins.af.mil/coronavirus and base Facebook page at www.facebook.com/RobinsPublicAffairs.

Now more than ever, it is vital to stay connected to your teammates through a variety of virtual mediums, as well as in person while complying with social distancing. There are many resources available both at Robins and in the community to help anyone struggling during these uncertain times. Another way to relieve stress and maintain the Air Force standards for fitness is to get out and exercise. Our outdoor trails and track are open and I encourage you to use them.

Let me be clear: this situation will end, and we will succeed because We're Better Together. Our number one priority has been and will continue to be your safety. We may not know how long this will last but I am confident we will succeed. Thank you for all you do for each other and for Robins AFB.

Robins Proud!
Col. Brian Moore, Robins Installation Commander



ALC Teammates,

As many of you are aware, Governor Kemp has announced a shelter-in-place order that will take effect, Friday, 3 Apr that will require Georgians to limit travel and activities outside of their own home except for certain activities permitted by the order.  One notable exception to the order will be that employees, including contractors, performing duties for the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex are exempted from that order.  Our mission remains essential to the nation and as such, you will be authorized to travel to and from your work location and perform necessary travel to carry out your work-related duties.  I have been in contact with local, regional and state officials and all of them understand your operationally essential mission must continue. 

During this time of national crisis, we must continue to show the strength of the US Military in order deter our enemies.  The aircraft, components, and software you produce every day are on the front lines this very minute…and our warfighters are counting on us…now more than ever.  Quite simply, our mission matters!

However, as your Commander I know without a shadow of a doubt that…YOU MATTER!  That’s why we are working to balance the unquestioned need for our mission to continue, with doing everything we can to ensure your safety in the process.  We have been successful in making sure our employees who are at high risk are being protected.  We have also taken concrete steps to ensure the safety of our workcenters to include increasing contracted cleaning in common use areas across the complex, significantly increasing our disinfectant supplies, and trying to improve communication with supervisors and employees alike to ensure we have done our absolute best to protect each other.  Many of you have already played critical roles in these improvements and we ask that you continue to make suggestions about how me might further improve on those actions already taken. 

As this situation continues to evolve, if further actions are required to ensure your safety, we will work with base, union, and local leadership to take all necessary steps.  Until then, follow the guidance provided by our state and national leaders for conduct outside of the workplace, and continue to watch out for each other.

There are a lot of heroes in our world right now…heroes that can’t shelter in place and wait for this to pass, heroes that must be at their post to ensure the long term security of our nation…you are the heroes our nation counts on every day, and especially in this crisis. 

Thanks for all you do for our nation…we will get through this!

John       

JOHN C. KUBINEC
Brigadier General, USAF
Commander, WR-ALC



Georgia Governor Brian Kemp's April 2, 2020, executive order to shelter in place can be viewed here.