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speaks from knowledge.”
Owens said “Eddie could
have just stayed in the back
ground, but I know Robins
Air Force Base, and Warner
Robins are far better because
you didn’t.”
State Sen. Ross Tolleson,
R-Perry, who introduced the
legislation in to have the
bridge named for Wiggins,
said “Eddie was working
hard to build bridges and
I’m proud to have you as
Middle Georgia’s Mr. Air
Force Base.”
Tolleson said Wiggins had
asked where his bridge was.
“I told him it took me a long
time to pay folks to show
up,” the senator joked.
“We pushed hard for this,
but it was a lot easier,”
Tolleson said, “since Eddie is
known across the state as Mr.
Air Force.”
Mayor Donald Walker
thanked the 21st Century
Partnership, “that’s who I’m
looking at,” he told those
gathered, “that made this an
extraordinary place to live.”
Walker said Wiggins “is
a leader, a seer. His efforts
for this community are why
Middle Georgia and Warner
Robins is the home of cham
pions - state champion foot
ball team, world champion
Little League team. Eddie
has been our leader, our
champion at the 21st Century
Partnership.”
Walker said of Wiggins, “I
don’t think he had a choice.
He was bom into this. You’re
daddy would be very proud of
you today.”
Walker said the bridge
naming “is a small token of
what you’ve done for this
community. Eddie, God bless
you and God bless America.”
Wiggins joked about the
bridge.
“Donald and I were talking,
trying to figure out where we
could put a toll road. I’d take
half, he’d take half, but then
he’d annex it and I get noth
ing.”
Wiggins said his time with
the Partnership, “was a little
different than I expected. I
thought I get to play golf
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Eddie Wiggins, surrounded by local leaders, unveils the
sign naming the Russell Parkway bridge over Ga. 247 as
the Eddie Wiggins Bridge of Partnership.
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Wiggins puts his hand in with his partners at the base,
from left, retired base commanders Maj. Gen. Ron Smith,
Maj. Gen. Rick Goddard, Maj. Gen. “Newt” Nuetergen,
Wiggins and current WRALC commander Maj. Gen. Tom
Owen.
with a two-star general.”
He credited one of them,
Ron Smith, “for all the won
derful things I’ve become an
expert in. I spell out verba
tim what Ron Smith tells me
to say.”
He told Smith, “without
your help and guidance it
wouldn’t have happened.”
Wiggins pointed to the
base and told those gathered,
“please don’t forget it is *a
big deal. This ain’t gonna be
here forever without effort.”
Wiggins was a founding
father of the partnership in
1993 and has served as chair
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man since 1999. He success
fully guided Robins Air Force
Base and the community
through many challenging
issues including reduced bud
gets, privatization threats,
lack of adequate on-base and
off-base housing, and lack of
medical participation in the
TRICARE program.
Since 1993, Robins. Air
Force Base has grown from
about 18,000 to 27,000 per
sonnel, increased its economic
impact on Georgia from $2.3
billion to $4.2 billion, and
survived three base closure
and realignment rounds.
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