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Team Charleston trains during Fall Prevention Week
May 15, 2018 — For the fifth year in a row, Joint Base Charleston is partnering with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to highlight fall prevention strategies with the goal of reducing the number of fall-related mishaps... MORE

Airman 1st Class Brandon Chapman, left, 437th Maintenance Squadron Aircraft fuel System journeyman, Airman 1st Class Bryce Pfalzer, center, 437th MXS Aircraft fuel System journeyman, and Airman 1st Class Jared Trabert, right, 437th MXS Aircraft fuel System journeyman, wear the proper fall protection during training May 8, 2018, in the Aircraft Fuel System building at Joint Base Charleston, S.C. There are many variables involved in a fall that are outside of a worker’s control, such as working conditions, the specific job site, and human error. Wearing the proper PPE helps to prevent and reduce as many accidents as possible.

FEA awards ceremony honors team members
May 15, 2018 — The Greater Charleston Federal Executive Association held its annual Employee of the Year Awards Ceremony May 4, 2018, at the Redbank Club on Joint Base Charleston - Weapons Station... MORE

Charleston Combat camera teams take 2 of top three placings in DoD competition
May 9, 2018 — Teams from Joint Base Charleston’s Combat Camera Total Force Initiative squadrons took two of the top three placings at the 2018 Specialist Hilda I. Clayton Best Combat Camera Competition. Four teams of two from the active duty 1st Combat Camera Squadron and the reserve 4 CTCS participated in the competition at Ft. George G. Meade, Maryland, and Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, April 29-May 4... MORE

Charleston Combat Camera teams take first, third in DoD competition

Team Charleston families celebrate Month of the Military Child at STEAM event
May 8, 2018 — Parents and students play together during a "reveal" celebration as part of the Month of the Military Child at Lambs Elementary School, Charleston, S.C., April 13, 2018. Military children and parents were invited to play together with a recently donated Rigemajig, a large-scale building kit used for hands-on free play and Science, Technology, Engineer, Arts and Math (STEAM) learning. Longtime national partners KaBOOM! and The CarMax Foundation are working together to bring new play opportunities to communities in which military families live and work. MORE

Parents and students play together during a "reveal" celebration as part of the Month of the Military Child at Lambs Elementary School, Charleston, S.C., April 13, 2018.

2018 National Prayer Luncheon
May 8, 2018 — The Joint Base Charleston Chapel hosted the 2018 National Prayer Luncheon May 3, at the Red Bank Club, with U.S. Senator Tim Scott and award winning musical artist Brandon Heath as the guest speakers. The luncheon is designed to recognize the National Day of Prayer, held on the first Thursday in May and signed into law in 1952 by President Harry... MORE

Joint Base Charleston’s Chaplains hosted the 2018 National Prayer Luncheon May 3, at the Naval Weapons Station’s Red Bank Club.

NCFD visits JB Charleston, enhances partnership
May 8, 2018 — Firefighters from North Charleston Fire Department station 10 toured the 628th Civil Engineer Squadron Fire Department at Joint Base Charleston, S.C. May 2, 2018... MORE

NCFD visits JB Charleston, creates partnership

MLA to Senator Scott visits JB Charleston
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U.S. Army Maj. Tauara Hodo, center, 841st Transportation Battalion executive officer, briefs Rick Trimble, left, military legislative assistant to Senator Tim Scott, on the role of the 841st Trans Btn. while Col. Jeff Nelson, 628th Air Base Wing commander, looks on during a tour of Joint Base Charleston May 2, 2018.

560 RED HORSE Learns and Builds Foundations for Future Operations
May 3, 2018 — On an early morning on April 4, with forklifts, bulldozers, backhoes, generators, trucks and CONEX boxes in tow, the convoy made its way to an open field at McCrady Training Center. Upon arrival, the buses full of 560th RED HORSE Squadron airmen quickly unloaded all their heavy equipment and got to work. They surveyed the land, enabled generators, deployed water and latrine stations, erected shelters and a communications center. Over 200 U.S. Reserve Citizen Airmen assigned to the 560th Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers worked at McCrady Training Center, Eastover, South Carolina April 4 and 5, 2018. ... MORE

Air Force Honor Guard Drill Team recruits, retains, inspires at Air Expo
May 1, 2018 — As their commander gave his orders, the rifles started spinning and the U.S. Air Force Honor Guard Drill Team’s performance began. Their uniforms remained in impeccable shape. Not a thread was out of place as their white-gloved hands supported the 11-pound weapons, tossing the rifle into the air and catching it in perfect synchronization. This... MORE

Members of the United States Air Force Honor Guard Drill Team perform during the 2018 Air and Space Expo at Joint Base Charleston, S.C. April 28, 2018.

Air expo gives attendees firsthand look at military
May 1, 2018 — The Joint Base Charleston 2018 Air and Space Expo, the first in seven years, took over the flightline and skies above JB Charleston, April 28, 2018. The expo gave audiences a chance to see and experience aerial and ground demonstrations and meet and interact with performers at JB Charleston to help maintain close ties with the greater Charleston... MORE

Master Sgt. Christopher Malone, U.S. Army Special Operations Command Black Daggers Parachute Demonstration Detachment demonstrator, throws a ceremonial first pitch at a Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Park during a Charleston RiverDogs baseball game, April 26, 2018.