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Combat Camera reinforces warrior ethos during exercise TacRAT 2025
September 30, 2025 — The 1st Combat Camera Squadron hosted exercise TacRAT 2025, emphasizing training with small unit tactics, weapons proficiency, combat fitness and operational documentation in high-stress, simulated environments at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, Sept. 15 - 19, 2025... MORE

An Airman stares the down the rifle of a practice M4 rifle.

Combat Photojournalist translates skills to help keep city safe
September 19, 2018 — Frank Govea is a Los Angeles Police Department Crime Scene Photographer III. When at Joint Base Charleston, this crime scene photographer is Reserve Citizen Airman, Master Sgt. Frank Govea, combat photojournalist assigned to the 4th Combat Camera Squadron... MORE

1st Combat Camera Squadron hosts change of command
July 18, 2018 — MORE

Lt. Col. Tony M. Wickman receives the 1st Combat Camera Squadron guidon from Col. Todd Vician, Air Force Public Affairs Agency commander, during the change of command ceremony July 17, 2018, at Joint Base Charleston, S.C.

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

Reserve Firefighters Tackle Aircraft Burn Trainer
April 5, 2018 — Firefighters with the 315th Civil Engineer Flight stepped out of the firehouse and into a fire during the March Air Force Reserve drill weekend at Joint Base Charleston, S.C. The team conducted aircraft live-fire training, with newer members taking the lead to gain familiarity with equipment and tactics... MORE

Reserve Firefighters Tackle the Aircraft Burn Trainer

4th Combat Camera wins multiple AFRC media contest awards
February 22, 2018 — The 315th Airlift Wing’s 4th Combat Camera Squadron here earned 10 awards in the 2017 Air Force Reserve Command Media Contest... MORE

The 315th Airlift Wing’s 4th Combat Camera Squadron here earned 10 awards in the 2017 Air Force Reserve Command Media Contest.

Combat Camera TFI – Training Together for the Challenges Ahead
February 22, 2018 — After two weeks in the field participating in Exercise Scorpion Lens and one week of prep, active duty and Reserve Airmen from the 1st and 4th Camera Squadrons, respectively, decamped Army Training Center Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and McCrady Training Center, Eastover, S.C for the road back to Joint Base Charleston... MORE

4th CTCS officially activates as part of 315th Airlift Wing
May 5, 2017 — The 4th Combat Camera Squadron was officially reactivated today in the Yonkie Auditorium at Joint Base Charleston under the 315th Airlift Wing, and Maj. Hamilton Underwood assumed the helm of the specialized Reserve unit... MORE

(from left) Lt. Col. John Robinson, 315th Operations Group commander, watches Maj. Hamilton Underwood, the units commander, unravel the 4th CCTS colors during a unit reactivation and assumption of command ceremony at Joint Base Charleston, S.C., May 5. The 4th CTCS, which was formally assigned to March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, Calif., deactivated in July 2015, but was reactivated and relocated to the 315 AW due to mission need. (U.S.Air Force Photo by Michael Dukes)

4th CTCS Reservists win big in media contest
May 2, 2017 — Two Reservists with the 4th Combat Camera Squadron at Joint Base Charleston recently earned top honors in the 2016 Air Force Media Contest as well as third place honors in the Department of Defense level competition... MORE

U.S. Marines watch for enemy activity during an urban clear exercise as part of Integrated Training Exercise 2-16 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., Feb. 11, 2016. MCAGCC conducts relevant live-fire combined arms, urban operations, and joint/coalition level integration training that promote operational forces' readiness. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Steven A. Ortiz)

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