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628th CONS, CPTS build base from ground up during contingency exercise
April 27, 2017 — The 628th Contracting Squadron and 628th Comptroller Squadron tested skillset, knowledge and readiness of their Airmen during a contingency contracting exercise here April 26-28... MORE

Staff Sgt. Jordan Stinson, left, 628th Comptroller Squadron financial analyst supervisor, Senior Airman Menebere Haileselassie, center, 628th CPTS travel technician, and Senior Airman Xavier Miles, right, 628th CPTS military pay technician, participate in a contingency contracting exercise at Joint Base Charleston, S.C., April 21, 2017. The 628th Contracting Squadron and 628th CPTS trained side-by-side during the exercise to test skillsets and knowledge of junior contracting and finance Airmen helping prepare them for a deployed environment.

Team Charleston Purples Up! for Month of the Military Child
April 20, 2017 — The Joint Base Charleston-Weapons Station Child Development Center is celebrating Month of the Military Child by hosting Wacky Hat Wednesdays, Purple Up! Fridays and planting gardens with parents and students. April was named Month of the Military Child by former Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger in 1989 to applaud military children for their... MORE

Petty Officer 1st. Class Robert Bromley, Naval Nuclear Power Training Command, holds his daughter, Madelynn, at the Joint Base Charleston-Weapons Station Child Development Center, April 13, 2017. April was named Month of the Military Child by former Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger in 1989 to applaud military children for their daily sacrifices and the challenges they have overcome. WS CDC is celebrating Month of the Military Child by hosting Wacky Hat Wednesdays, Purple Up! Fridays and planting gardens with parents and students.

437th, 315th AWs support Exercise Patriot Sands
April 19, 2017 — Members of the 14th and 16th Airlift Squadrons, 437th Airlift Wing, recently supported the 315th Airlift Wing Airlift Control Flight during Exercise Patriot Sands, an Air Force Reserve Command exercise, at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida.U.S. Air Force Reserve ALCFs annually participate in the five-day exercise to train for their designed... MORE

Airman 1st Class Hope Harr, a C-17 loadmaster with the 437th Airlift Wing, Joint Base Charleston, S.C., assists with the loading of a Miami-Dade Fire Rescue truck March 9, 2017.

Honoring Team Charleston’s youngest service members
April 17, 2017 — Members of Team Charleston from the Childcare Development Center hold up signs during a parade here for a Month of the Military Child celebration, April 14, 2017. April is designated as Month of the Military Child to recognize the 1.7 million military children across the globe and the sacrifices they make alongside their parents. MORE

Members of Team Charleston from the Childcare Development Center hold up signs during a parade here for a Month of the Military Child celebration, April 14, 2017. April is designated as Month of the Military Child to recognize the 1.7 million military children across the globe and the sacrifices they make alongside their parents.

628th MDG aids USCG Sector Charleston with historic exercise
April 10, 2017 — Members of the 628th Medical Group assisted U.S. Coast Guard Sector Charleston with a communicable disease exercise at the Federal Law Enforcement compound April 4. The exercise was the first of its kind and tested communication procedures and the integration of federal, state, local and private industry partners while analyzing response... MORE

Members of the Center for Disease Control, South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control and Medical University of South Carolina participate in a communicable disease exercise at the Federal Law Enforcement compound April 4, 2017. The exercise, the first of its kind in Charleston, S.C., tested communication procedures and the integration of federal, state, local and private industry partners while analyzing response capabilities if an infected person needed to be transported from a vessel to the Port of Charleston.

Professional tennis player takes time to visit Sailors
April 7, 2017 — Kayla Day, professional tennis player, plays a game of pool with Naval Nuclear Power Training Unit students April 4, 2017, at the Bowman Center on Joint Base Charleston - Weapons Station, S.C. Day toured the NNPTU campus and signed autographs for Team Charleston members while she was in the Charleston area to compete in the Volvo Car Open tennis... MORE

Kayla Day, professional tennis player, plays a game of pool with Naval Nuclear Power Training Unit students April 4, 2017, at the Bowman Center on Joint Base Charleston - Weapons Station, S.C. Day toured the NNPTU campus and signed autographs for Team Charleston members while she was in the Charleston area to compete in the Volvo Car Open tennis tournament.

1st Combat Camera Squadron reaches milestone
April 7, 2017 — The 1st Combat Camera Squadron here celebrated its 25th anniversary April 1. Many combat camera squadrons have existed but 1st CTCS will be the only remaining Active Duty combat camera squadron in the Air Force. While it’s only been 25 years under its current name, 1st CTCS can trace its lineage as far back as 1943 when it was originally activated... MORE

U.S. Air Force Pararescueman Staff Sgt. Lopaka Mounts, assigned to the 331st Air Expeditionary Group receives a hug from a resident during search and rescue operations after Hurricane Ike, September 13, 2008. This photograph was provided by the 1st Combat Camera Squadron to showcase world events they have documented throughout the past 25 years.

NHCC kicks off SAAPM
April 5, 2017 — Naval Health Clinic Charleston Sexual Assault Prevention and Response representatives, NHCC command leadership and supporting staff members, tie a teal ribbon to a tree in front of NHCC, March 28, 2017, to kick off Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. This month offers an opportunity to build on existing momentum to eliminate sexual... MORE

Naval Health Clinic Charleston Sexual Assault Prevention and Response representatives, NHCC command leadership and supporting staff members, tie a teal ribbon to a tree in front of NHCC, March 28, 2017, to kick off Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. This month offers an opportunity to build on existing momentum to eliminate sexual assault and ensure all servicemembers are in a work environment where they are treated with dignity and respect.

437th AMXS NCOA graduate expands goals
April 5, 2017 — Recently, Tech. Sgt. Paul Woody, 437th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, received the John L. Levitow award as the honor graduate from the NCO Academy Intermediate Leadership Experience course held at McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base, Louisville, Tennessee. “It came as no surprise to hear of Woody’s Levitow award,” said Lt. Col. Rob Ryder,... MORE

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Paul Woody, 437th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, right, receives the John L. Levitow award for the McGhee Tyson NCO Academy class 17-2 from Col. Kevin Donovan, commander, left, at the I.G. Brown Training and Education Center in Louisville, Tennessee, Feb. 8, 2017. The John L. Levitow Award, the highest award for enlisted professional military education in the Air Force, is presented to the student who demonstrates the most outstanding leadership and scholastic achievement in Airman Leadership School, the NCOA and the Senior NCOA.

New Initiative streamlines base, county emergency response times
April 3, 2017 — Leadership from Joint Base Charleston and Charleston County representatives signed a memorandum of agreement combining their call centers to shorten the response times of military and civilian first responders at the Charleston County Consolidated 911 Center, March 30. The Public-Public, Public-Private, better known as P4, program makes mutually... MORE

Col. Rob Lyman, right, Joint Base Charleston commander, meets with J. Al Cannon, left, Charleston County sheriff, during a tour of the Charleston County Consolidated 911 Center, March 30, 2017. The Enhanced 911 initiative combines the call centers for the 628th Security Forces Squadron and fire department with the Charleston County Consolidated 911 Center, ultimately shortening response times, saving money and saving lives.