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JB Charleston revs up for motorcycle season
April 3, 2018 — Joint Base Charleston held their annual motorcycle rider’s safety briefing March 30 at the Air Base Theater. The base holds this event each year at the beginning of the riding season to get service members back in the mind set of operating a motorcycle safely. “This is what’s important, we care about you,” said Col. Jimmy Canlas 437th Airlift... MORE

U.S. Air Force Col. Jimmy Canlas, 437th Airlift Wing commander, delivers opening remarks during the annual motorcycle rider’s safety briefing March 30, 2018, at the Air Base Theater.

CG Director of Health Safety and Work Life visits NHCC
April 3, 2018 — U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Erica Schwartz, Director of Health, Safety and Work-Life for the Coast Guard, visited Naval Health Clinic Charleston March 20. MORE

Health Service Technicians 1st Class Heidi Bennett, center, and Nicole Flores, right, Fleet Liaison Readiness Support for Coast Guard Charleston, greet Rear Adm. Erica Schwartz, left, Director of Health, Safety and Work-Life for the U.S. Coast Guard, during Schwartz's visit Naval Health Clinic Charleston March 20. Schwartz and her staff met with Coast Guard and NHCC leaders before touring the health care facility. Bennet, Flores and two other Coast Guard health service technicians are embedded at NHCC to provide medical and dental care for Coast Guard personnel and their families stationed at Sector Charleston. Schwartz is responsible for the Coast Guard's health care system of 41 clinics and 150 sick bays, as well as, operational and off-duty mishap prevention, response and investigation. Schwartz oversees the Coast Guard's child care programs and food services delivery programs, ashore and afloat and the Coast Guard's Ombudsman, Substance Abuse, Health Promotion and Sexual Assault Prevention and Response programs.

SSC Atlantic unmanned systems, swarm technology
April 3, 2018 — Ask physicist Brad Knaus how he got into unmanned systems and he’ll tell you he started out working for the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SSC) Atlantic Air Traffic Control division, focusing on counter measures and detection for small unmanned systems. Ask him how he got into drones and he’ll tell you, “It just kind of snowballed into... MORE

Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SSC) Atlantic employee Chad Sullivan tins the wire for a new battery lead to install on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Sullivan is a member of the SSC Atlantic Unmanned Systems Research (SAUSR) Range team which is working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to get autonomous technology in the hands of warfighters. SSC Atlantic develops, acquires and provides life cycle support for command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems, information technology and space capabilities. A leading-edge Navy engineering center, SSC Atlantic designs, builds, tests, fields and supports many of the finest frontline C4ISR systems in use today, and those being planned for the future.

NHCC holds Patient Safety Awareness Week
April 3, 2018 — According to the Department of Defense Patient Safety Program, Patient Safety Awareness Week, Mar. 11 - 17, 2018, offered an opportunity to recognize the importance of quality care and patient safety throughout the Military Health System. It also emphasized the importance of unifying military treatment facilities to use leading practices ensuring... MORE

U.S. Navy Lt. Jonathan Carmack, head of Naval Health Clinic Charleston’s Staff, Education and Training Department, inspects a mock patient and its surroundings for potential hazards in NHCC’s “Room of Errors,” Mar. 16, 2018. The room was designed with purposely planted examples of hazards which could cause harm to patients or put their privacy at risk as part of Patient Safety Awareness Week, a national campaign which ran March 11-17.

USS Ralph Johnson commissioned in Charleston
March 30, 2018 — Approximately 6,000 people from across the country gathered to watch the commissioning of the USS Ralph Johnson (DDG-114), March 24, 2018, in the Port of Charleston, S.C. The USS Ralph Johnson is an Arleigh Burke – Class destroyer with the roles of anti-aircraft, anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare. The crew “man the rails” aboard ship to symbolize the commissioning of the ship into the U.S. Navy fleet. U.S. Navy Cmdr. Jason Patterson assumed command of the ship and her crew... MORE

Joint Base Charleston’s leadership attends the commissioning ceremony for the USS Ralph Johnson (DDG-114) March 24, 2018, at the Port of Charleston, S.C.

JB Charleston kicks off AFAF campaign
March 30, 2018 — The Joint Base Charleston Air Force Assistance Fund Campaign Kicked off March 27 and will run through May 4, 2018. The fund raising goal is $53,599 and 100 percent contact with all active duty Airmen.The AFAF was established as an annual effort to raise funds for charitable affiliates providing support to Air Force service members, retirees,... MORE

An Airman takes a pamphlet to learn more information about the Air Force Assistance Fund during the Joint Base Charleston AFAF Campaign kicked off March 27, 2018.

Air Expo performer pulls off the impossible
March 29, 2018 — Mark Kirsch, strong man for “Man vs. Impossible,” practiced pulling a C-17 Globemaster III from a hangar at Joint Base Charleston, S.C., March 27, 2018... MORE

Mark Kirsch, strong man for “Man vs. Impossible,” pulls a C-17 Globemaster III from a hangar at Joint Base Charleston, S.C., March 27, 2018.

Deily Dental gives kids a smile through ADA program
March 29, 2018 — JOINT BASE CHARLESTON, S.C. – Deily Dental Clinic hosted “Give Kids A Smile”, a program launched by the American Dental Association, March 23, 2018, at Joint Base Charleston, S.C. The program offers children free preventative dental services such as dental exams, fluoride treatments and education. ... MORE

Captain Jeffrey Yee, 628th Aeromedical Squadron general dentist, examines a patient’s mouth during the Give Kids A Smile event at Joint Base Charleston, S.C., March 23, 2018.

Air Force, University of Nebraska conduct research for TIS
March 29, 2018 — Joint Base Charleston hosted members from Air Mobility Command and the University of Nebraska Medical Center for a transportable isolation system training and research event March 14, 2018. The TIS, an enclosed negative pressure medical pod with clear walls, is an isolation unit designed to provide in-flight medical care for patients with highly infectious diseases... MORE

An Air Mobility Command Airman carries a gurney during a transportable isolation system training and research event at Joint Base Charleston, S.C., March 14, 2018.

JB Charleston enables Army onload aboard USNS Watson
March 29, 2018 — Vehicles assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division are loaded onto the USNS Watson (T-AKR-310) in preparation for transport at Joint Base Charleston’s - Weapons Station, S.C., March 20. The 841st Transportation Battalion, 597th Transportation Brigade, on-loaded more than 1,500 vehicles and equipment, including combat helicopters. Charleston has the capability to transport cargo by air, land, rail and sea... MORE

Vehicles assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division are loaded onto the USNS Watson (T-AKR-310) in preparation for transport at Joint Base Charleston’s - Weapons Station, S.C., March 20. The 841st Transportation Battalion, 597th Transportation Brigade, on-loaded more than 1,500 vehicles and equipment, including combat helicopters. Charleston has the capability to transport cargo by air, land, rail and sea.