<item><hi format=bold>Location and Origin of Name:</hi> 15 miles southeast of Macon, and named after Brigadier General Augustine Warner Robins, who died on 16 June 1940 at Randolph Field while commandant of the Air Corps Training Center
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<p>The base was established as Robins Field in 1941 primarily as a logistics depot but it also trained 50,000 personnel for overseas duty in World War II. Warner Robins Depot Area Command was formed in February 1944 as the forerunner of today's Air Logistics Center. It was reduced to limited flying duties between 1945 and 1949, but was upgraded for SAC operations with two ARS located in 1954 and 1956. They appear to have operated without wing assignment, both were inactivated when the 4137th Strat Wing was formed in February 1959. The latter wing was replaced by the 465th BW in February 1963, which itself was inactivated in July 1968 when the 19th BW moved from Homestead AFB. The unit became an Air Refueling Wing in 1984, subsequently gaining responsibility for the two EC-135s of US Central Command and the EC-137E of US Southern Command. HQ Continental Air Command was located between April 1961 and August 1968 when the service was renamed Air Force Reserve, with HQ at Robins AFB. The Georgia ANG is to move the 116th FW here prior to converting to the B-1B and becoming the 116th BW.
