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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1979
-Robins AFB Review
Gen. Paulk To Assume Command
General John R. Spalding To Step
Down As Robins ALC Commander
Major General John R.
Spalding, Jr., com
mander of the Warner
Robins Air Logistics
Center, has announced
plans to retire January
31, 1980, and relinquish
local command to Major
General John R. Paulk.
General Spalding has
commanded the local
Center since August of
1977. General Paulk, a
native of Willacoochee,
Georgia, is currently
deputy chief of staff
logistics for the North
American Air Defense
Command (NORAD) and
deputy chief of staff
CCP Dedication Held
Dec. 3 At Robins AFB
A one-year test for an
Air Force Consolidation-
Containerization Point
(CCP) began at Robins
AFB Dec, 3 when Bldg.
365 was dedicated as test
site in ceremonies.
The test will determine
how much time and
money can be saved by
consolidating and loading
Air Force surface
shipments into seavan
containers for movement
overseas.
The CCP will handle
cargo moving by surface
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logistics, Aerospace
Defense Command
(ADCOM) at Peterson
AFB, Colorado.
"This announcement
elicits a great deal of
emotion,” said General
Spalding. "The last two
years have been highly
rewarding -- both per
sonally and
professionally. A great
deal has been ac
complished. That means
many people caught the
vision, shouldered the
burden, and helped this
Center move ahead in
some very vital areas.
"The work force --
transportation. Each
week about 50-60 forty
foot seavan containers
will be loaded with cargo
and transferred to
coastal ports for ship
ment by U.S. flag vessels.
Once the ship arrives at
a European port, the
container will be of
floaded and transported
by truck to the Air Force
bases in Germany and
the United Kingdom.
The test will attempt to
prove that overseas
transit times can be
both military and civilian
-- is absolutely first-rate.
Nowhere are people more
hard working, dedicated,
and resourceful. Believe
me, the American work
ethic is alive and well in
Middle Georgia.
"But the people off the
base those in the
surrounding com
munities - have made my
job and the mission of
this Center much easier.
From the mayors and
city councilmen down to
the private citizens, our
public support is envied
Air Force wide.
significantly reduced
under the CCP concept,
possibly from 60-70 days
to 35-40 days and save an
anticipated $2.8 million to
$4.6 million annually.
The system will vir
tually eliminate
rehandling. Once the
container is loaded at
Robins, the freight will
not be handled again until
it is received at the final
destination, avoiding
delays in loading the
freight at water ports and
cutting losses due to
“It has been a great
personal pleasure to
serve under those very
positive circumstances.”
General Spalding has
spearheaded and
presided over more than
27 months of progress and
change. He has strongly
pushed for and brought
about a total com
mitment to the operating
forces in the field. He has
often said that ‘‘My
major contribution to this
Center probably is my
close association over the
years with the operating
forces. I’ve been on the
other side of the fence. I
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Seavans used during
the test will be com
mercial, not military,
vans. This, too, will save
money since the Air
Force will pay for one
way rather than two-way
transportation.
According to the
Warner Robins ALC
project officer, Capt.
Gilbert M. (Morry) Ellis
Jr., who also is chief of
the new CCP branch in
the Directorate of
Distribution, the test will
eliminate cargo holdups
at the ports while
bookings are scheduled.
“We expect to process
between 100,000 and
120,000 shipments the
first year,” Captain Ellis
explained.
The CCP operation will
require fifteen, 4,000
pound low-mast forklifts,
Capt. Ellis said.
An office has already
been established to
handle administrative
functions. The CCP
Branch will be under the
Transportation Oper
ations Division.
Included in the giant
warehouse is a
mechanized material
handling system, two
computers under the
Cyber Intercom System
and other necessary
office supplies and
equipment.
While the main CCP
facility and the container
holding locations will be
in Bldg. 365, a container
pool is being planned in
Lot 20, just across the
street. It will hold 50-60
containers, one week’s
requirement for CCP
operations.
Cargo, for the CCP will
be received, mostly from
trucks, and off-loaded at
the docks. If needed, the
base has a rail line on the
far side of the storeroom.
Once off-loaded, the
cargo will flow down the
conveyor where it will be
sorted to destination lines
in a second storeroom.
All bulk cargo will be held
in bays in still another
storeroom.
Cargo to be loaded
outbound will be pulled
from a load list from the
conveyor lines and bulk
areas. It will be stacked
on pallets, which will run
across a stretch wrap
machine for final sealing.
From the lines, the
pallet will be loaded
through the doors into
awaiting containers. The
cargo will be blocked and
braced, sealed and taken
to the outbound holding
area for pickup.
"If this test proves
successful,” Captain
Ellis pointed out,
“operations of the CCP
could be extended to
include additional
destinations and other
types of cargo. In the
future, it could change
Air Force logistics
concepts.”
know their needs and
problems. And with the
help of a great number of
people here, we have
been able to address
those areas in the last two
years."
He will clearly leave
his mark on the future
ALC mission. He was
instrumental in the ex
pansion of worldwide
support for the F-15 air
superiority fighter. Also,
he directed the
development of an un
precedented repair
capability for crash or
battle damaged aircraft.
Just recently, an ex
tensively damaged F-15
was totally repaired and
returned to service by
local maintenance crews,
preserving an sll million
aircraft for less than $1
million.
In other areas, he
brought to culmination --
ahead of schedule and
under cost -- the C-141
stretch program, a move
that will provide a much
needed boost to the
nation’s strategic airlift
capability. He strongly
pushed development and
expansion of the Elec
tronic Warfare software
mission. His strong
leadership was also in
strumental in Robins
AFB being named the
one-year test site for the
Air Force Consolidation -
Containerization Point.
That/ move could cut
overseas shipment times
almost in half and save
the Air Force from $2.8 to
4.6 million annually.
He also brought to
Robins AFB a strong
interest in environmental
protection. He firmly
believed that a modern
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industrial plant could co
exist with its natural
surroundings. The
crowning a c -
complishment in that
area came several
months ago in the
opening of the Bert
Spalding Nature Center
near Luna Lake on the
base.
One senior staff
member provided a
context for those ac
complishments. "All of
that progress came at a
time when the base ex
perienced significant
personnel cuts,” he said.
"Yet even with those
cuts, the Center is doing
more now - and doing it
more efficiently -- than it
ever has. And that speaks
very well for the strong
leadership and support
we’ve received the past
two-plus years.”
General Spalding
brought a rich,
operationally oriented
background to his job as
ALC commander. Im
mediately prior to
coming here, he was vice
commander in Chief of
Aerospace Defense
Command at Peterson
Air Force Base,
Colorado.
He filed almost 6,000
hours of flying time in
the F-80, F-84, F-102, F-4,
B-47, and B-52. During the
Korean War he flew 100
combat missions and was
credited with destroying
a MIG-15 during combat.
He served successive
assignments in the
Philippines, Thailand,
and Vietnam between
1968-71 completing 163
combat missions.
He returned to the
United States in 1971 as
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Chief, Tactical Forces
and Airlift Division,
Deputy Chief of Staff,
Programs and Resources
at Headquarters U.S. Air
Force. He was reassigned
in June of 1972 as
director of Logistics
Plans and Programs for
the Deputy Chief of Staff,
Systems and Logistics.
In February of 1975, he
became deputy chief of
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NORAD-CONAD-ADC at
Ent AFB, Colorado. In
December of 1976, he
became the vice com
mander in chief of AD
COM.
General Spalding and
his wife, the former
Elizabeth T. Light of
Charlotte, North
Carolina, plan to make
their home in Florida.