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Know the difference between emergency, urgent care
June 5, 2007 — As a TRICARE Prime beneficiary enrolled to the 437th Medical Group, your primary care manager team includes a medical provider, nurse and technician. This team is your key to gaining the best healthcare services available to you as a TRICARE Prime enrollee. Your PCM team will assist you in getting the right care at the right time. The bottom line... MORE

Prepare, be safe during hurricane season
May 30, 2007 — With hurricane season upon us again, it's time to dust off that family disaster plan, or in many cases, create one. Keeping your family safe during a hurricane starts with proper planning. Living along the Charleston coastline makes hurricane preparation a must for many servicemembers and their families. Hurricane season officially starts today and... MORE

Reflections of the past keep the memories alive
May 23, 2007 — The crowd watched in silence as he made his way to the front of the church. Upon taking a seat, he pulled out his creased, worn notes to begin speaking. The stillness in the room was an implicit reminder that this could be the last time a personal account of surviving the Holocaust is shared. Pincus Kolender, an Auschwitz survivor, began his... MORE

Pincus Kolender, a holocaust survivor, spoke of his experience during the Holocaust Remembrance Service at the base chapel May 22. (Air Force photos/Staff Sgt. Marie Cassetty)

$339,129,016.36 and every drop of fuel accounted for
May 2, 2007 — In early 1997, the Air Force noticed they were losing millions of dollars on fuel and no one knew why.In order to reduce loses Air Mobility Command created the wing refueling document control office position, dedicating one person to manage and provide technical and managerial support to wing commanders and organizations for the aviation,... MORE

OVER THE PACIFIC -- A C-17 Globemaster III approaches a KC-135 Stratotanker to practice air-to-air refueling during a local training mission recently. The C-17 is on loan to the 15th Airlift Wing at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, from the 437th AW at Charleston AFB, S.C. The KC-135 is assigned to the Hawaii Air National Guard's 203rd Air Refueling Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Shane A. Cuomo)

Team Charleston : No one comes close
April 12, 2007 — Team Charleston members and base organizations continue to set the standard for others to follow Air Force wide. There were numerous accomplishments made by individuals and units during 2006 to the present. 437th Airlift Wing Staff The 437th Comptroller Squadron was recognized as the Air Force 2006 Financial Services Office of the Year and as the... MORE

Airman 1st Class Jared Lambert, 16th Airlift Squadron, walks down the aisle of a Charleston C-17 during evacuation procedures from Lebanon to Ramstein Air Base, Germany, July 23, 2006. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Stacy Pearsall)

437 OSS Current Ops: keeping the C-17 mission organized
March 29, 2007 — When Team Charleston aircrews depart the base, how do they know what their scheduled takeoff time is? How do they know what cargo they'll be taking? How do they know where and when the KC-10 will meet them over the Atlantic for refueling? They know these things, and much more about their mission, because the Airmen and civilians of the 437th... MORE

Mark Watkins, 437th Operations Support Squadron air operation specialist, works on the tactical waivers for Air Mobility Command's commander for a day mission Tuesday.

Combat Tactics Flight ensures airdrop success
March 21, 2007 — There are times when an airdrop is the only way servicemembers in Iraq or Afghanistan can get supplies, and a particular flight here ensures that mission can be accomplished. The 437th Operations Support Squadron Combat Tactics Flight is responsible for ensuring more than 125 pallets are airdropped successfully each month without error. "We play an... MORE

Staff Sgts. Justin Thompson, 437th Operations Support Squadron Combat Tactics Flight joint airdrop inspector, and Terry E. Langston, 437 OSS Combat Tactics Flight NCO in charge of JAI training, inspect the extraction package for an airdrop on the flightline Tuesday. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman Melissa B. Harper)

Phoenix Spouse program will give Team Charleston families a squadron link
January 26, 2007 — Another program the Airman and Family Readiness flight has available for spouses is the Phoenix Spouse program. The Phoenix Spouse program is a formal unit program that offers informal peer-to-peer support to families. Volunteer spouses within a unit sign up and attend training to become their unit's Phoenix Spouse. The program is a resource to... MORE

Airmen and Family Readiness Flight offers spouse support
January 26, 2007 — "Spouses are a major contributing factor to the Air Force mission," said Linda Lankosz, base administrator for an Air Force-wide program called Heart Link. Heart Link is a standardized spouse orientation program designed to increase awareness of the Air Force mission, customs, traditions, protocol and available resources for all spouses of... MORE

Celebrate camaraderie with Charleston’s Daedalian flight
December 15, 2006 — Brig. Gen. Billy Mitchell's vision for a professional fraternal organization of American military pilots is just as significant today, if not more, than it was at its inception in 1921. The Order of Daedalians has a powerful enduring purpose, expressed by General Mitchell, to "... perpetuate the spirit of patriotism, the love of the country, the... MORE