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AFPC announces major selects
March 11, 2009 — The Air Force recently selected 24 Team Charleston captains for promotion to major. Additionally, seven of the 24 were selected for intermediate developmental education. 14th Airlift Squadron: Francisco Flores, Kathleen Hasson (IDE) and Michele Lobianco (IDE) 14th Weather Squadron: Kristopher Kripchak and Robert Tournay 15th Airlift Squadron: Jeff... MORE

Base children 'deploy' to Madagascar
March 10, 2009 — More than 40 children from Charleston AFB took part in the fifth annual mock deployment line March 7 to experience first hand what their parents go through when preparing to deploy. The operation, dubbed "Operation Save the Lemurs," gave military children a taste of what it's like to prepare for a deployment in support of military operations around... MORE

Zayra Alvarado gets her face painted at the children's deployment line here March 7. The children's deployment line is a program developed to help show children what their parents go through before they deploy downrange. Zayra is the 7-year-old daughter of Tech. Sgt. Angel Alvarado Rivera, assigned to the 437th Communications Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Timothy Taylor)

Springing toward a healthy lifestyle
March 10, 2009 — MORE

Team Charleston Airmen start the Commander's Fitness Challenge 5,000-meter run on Charleston AFB March 6. More than 350 Airmen from various squadrons participated in the monthly challenge. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Marie Cassetty)

Congratulations to Team Charleston's newest senior master sergeant selects
March 6, 2009 — Fourteen Charleston Airmen were recently selected for promotion to the rank of senior master sergeant: 1st Combat Camera Squadron: Master Sgts. Jamie Chapman and Allan Perry 14th Airlift Squadron: Master Sgt. Justin Strain 437th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron: Master Sgts. David Charls and Jeffrey Miley 437th Logistics Readiness Squadron: Master... MORE

Tracking changes
March 5, 2009 — MORE

Senior Airman Allen Russo updates the plot board in the 437th Security Forces Squadron here March 4. The plot board is updated six times a day to show aircraft location for security purposes. Airman Russo is a patrolman assigned to the 437 SFS.

LRS 2 vs. Army National Guard
March 4, 2009 — MORE

Michael McHoney dribbles through defenders as he penetrates to the hoop during an intramural basketball game at the Fitness and Sports Center here
March 3. The Army National Guard team defeated the Logistics Readiness Squadron 45-37. McHoney is with the Army National Guard in Charleston, South Carolina. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Timothy Taylor)

Take-out service reinstated
March 4, 2009 — MORE

Airman 1st Class Crystal Housman gets take-out at the dining facility here March 4. The newly reinstated take-out service provides Airmen another option when they do not have time to eat at the dining facility. Airman Houseman is with the 437th Comptroller Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Timothy Taylor)

Team Charleston receives thier newest C-17
March 4, 2009 — MORE

Brig. Gen. Kenneth Merchant delivers Charleston AFB's newest C-17 March 3. The P-184 C-17 is the fourth of 10 new aircraft Charleston AFB is scheduled to receive this year. General Merchant is the director of logistics for Air Mobility Command. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Marie Cassetty)

Mentoring program builds brighter future for students
March 4, 2009 — A commander from Charleston AFB helped initiate a new community outreach program at Lambs Elementary School in North Charleston earlier this year. The Lambs Mentor Program, like a Big Brother Program, was designed to give some of Lambs' fourth and fifth grade boys a mentor to help focus on academics and relationship-building. "Charleston has a very... MORE

Airmen mentor students on Air Force life
March 4, 2009 — Local area students got to hear and see what life is like for pilots, loadmasters and firefighters on an Air Force base by participating in a field trip to Charleston AFB March 3. The students, from Devon Forest Elementary School in Goose Creek, are part of a program called "Staying on Track Pack." Eleven students earned the chance to visit the... MORE

Senior Airman Mitch Thompson explains to Keshun Douglas when to pull the automatic release handle on a parachute during a tour of a static C-17 on the flightline here March 3. Students from Devon Forest Elementary school in Goose Creek, S.C. were given the opportunity to take part in this field trip to inspire them to succeed and realize that they can achieve personal goals if they work hard towards accomplishing them. Senior Airman Thompson is a C-17 loadmaster and joint airdrop inspector assigned to the 437th Operations Support Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Marie Cassetty)