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April 8, 2019
On Base

Robins Air Force Base, Macon-Bibb County and Central Georgia Technical College announced a new aviation program partnership Friday, Macon.com reported. It will create a workforce pipeline with CGTC students getting hands-on training with the Air Force’s 402nd Commodities Maintenance Group…
The Guam Environmental Protection Agency has fined Andersen Air Force Base for sanitizing some of its drinking water with chlorination tablets made to sanitize swimming pools, a base spokesperson announced in a statement. On Jan. 2 the agency issued a violation notice that the chlorination tabs the base was using in drinking water included a chemical compound the agency considers a pesticide.
 
Air Force photo from Robins Air Force Base by Tommie Horton

April 8, 2019
On Base

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