17th AS returns home
Joint Base Charleston leadership greets Lt. Col. Todd Groomes, 17th Airlift Squadron commander, during the 17th Airlift Squadron’s redeployment Sept. 3, 2013, at Joint Base Charleston - Air Base, S.C. More than 100 Airmen from the 17th AS returned home from a deployment to Southwest Asia. Flying the C-17 Globemaster III, crews flew and supported roughly 790 sorties, logged more than 1,860 combat flying hours and airlifted more than 19.5 million pounds of cargo. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Rasheen Douglas)