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Charleston’s youth acts out in base play
August 16, 2007 — Team Charleston's Youth Program Center held auditions Monday for 5- to 17-year-olds to star in a Missoula Children's Theater Jack and the Beanstalk play. The play will be showing in the YPC's gym at 7 p.m. on Saturday. Rehearsals for those selected were every day this week from 4 to 8:15 p.m. MCT is a traveling performing program that is designed... MORE

Charleston selects top-performing Airmen for promotion
August 16, 2007 — One-hundred sixty-four Charleston Airmen were selected for promotion to staff sergeant Wednesday. The Air Force selected 15,130 of 36,608 eligible senior airmen for promotion to staff sergeant, a 41.33 percent selection rate. 437th Services Squadron: Marcal Alexander and Tavarus Williams 17th Airlift Squadron: James Davis, Matt Gaffney, Derek... MORE

Warrior of the week: Airman 1st Class Lawrence Hunt
August 16, 2007 — Airman 1st Class Lawrence Hunt is an aircraft structural maintenance journeyman for the 437th Maintenance Squadron and has been at Charleston AFB for a little more than a year. As an aircraft structural maintenance journeyman, he repairs the damaged structural components of the C-17 aircraft. He also helps repair surface damages on the C-17s and... MORE

Airmen 1st Class Lawrence Hunt is Charleston AFB's Warrior of the Week. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Nicholas Pilch)

Charleston maintainers lean process for HSC
August 16, 2007 — The 437th Maintenance Squadron Home Station Check Airmen hosted a rapid improvement lean event here from Aug. 6 to Aug. 10 to increase aircraft availability and reduce total cost for Charleston AFB. HSC is a thorough three-day inspection done every 120 days on an aircraft while it's at home station. Flightline maintenance begins this process by... MORE

Airmen inspect a C-17 during the home station check in a hangar on Charleston AFB Aug. 9. Charleston Airmen participated in a lean event here recently in an effort to eliminate waste and save time during the HSC process. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Airman 1st Class Nicholas Pilch)

Airmen in Action
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Airman 1st Class Anderson Nanton, 437th Aerial Port Squadron aerial port specialist, tactically looks around the corner for insurgents during training on Charleston AFB Tuesday. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Nicholas Pilch)

News briefs
August 9, 2007 — Spotlight Retirement: The 437th Logistics Readiness Squadron will host a retirement ceremony for Tech. Sgt. Connie Sims today at 10 a.m. in the 437 LRS auditorium. For more information, contact Master Sgt. Rebecca Aronson at 963-4893. Retirement: The 1st Combat Camera Squadron will host a retirement ceremony for Senior Master Sgt. Mark Rich today... MORE

0-0-1-3 is staying alive to keep you alive, well
August 8, 2007 — False rumors are being spread around Charleston AFB recently about 0-0-1-3 being "dead." 0-0-1-3 is a program that will live on at Charleston AFB years after it was first implemented by F.E. Warren AFB, Wyo. "I just came back from a temporary duty assignment with a lot of Air Force-level Alcohol and Drug Prevention Treatment leaders and they talked... MORE

Charleston maintenance officer receives AMC-level award
August 8, 2007 — A 437th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Operations officer was awarded the General Lew Allen, Jr. trophy July 31 at Charleston AFB. Maj. Mike Dailey, 437 AMXS operations officer was recently named Air Mobility Command's General Lew Allen, Jr. trophy winner and will compete this fall at the Air Force competition. The General Lew Allen, Jr. trophy... MORE

Charleston holds exercise similar to Virginia Tech incident
August 8, 2007 — Charleston AFB held a simulated emergency base-wide exercise, which was compared to the incident that occurred at Virginia Tech earlier this year, from approximately noon to 2 p.m. Aug. 1. The objective of a base-wide exercise is to test the initial and tactical response of the base in the event of an emergency. "The base as a whole did very well... MORE

Staff Sgt. Louis Wall, 437th Civil Engineer Squadron emergency management apprentice, plays dead on the floor as others wait as hostages in the 437th Civil Engineer Squadron readiness flight building on base Aug. 1. Team Charleston participated in a base-wide exercise that simulated an emergency scenario similar to what happened at Virginia Tech. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Nicholas Pilch)

Team Charleston welcomes new squadron commander
August 8, 2007 — The 437th Contracting Squadron welcomed a new commander during a change of command ceremony Tuesday in the Charleston Club. Maj. Edward Culbreth, who was a student at the National Defense Intelligence College, Defense Intelligence Agency at Bolling AFB, Washington, D.C., before being assigned here, replaced Lt. Col. Tara Morrison. Colonel... MORE

Maj. Edward Culbreth speaks after assuming command of the 437th Contracting Squadron from Lt. Col. Tara Morrison Aug. 7 in the Charelston Club. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Sam Hymas)