315th SFS member selected for AFRC’s 2018 Profiles in Leadership

By Michael Dukes, 315th Airlift Wing Public Affairs / Published October 30, 2018

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Staff Sgt. Allyson Franklin, 315th Security Forces Squadron at joint Base Charleston, S.C., stands in front of a Charleston C-17 Globemaster III. She recently deployed to the Middle East where she flew 103 hours to 31 different airfields providing flyaway security for flights throughout Midwest Asia. (U.S. Air Force photo / Michael Dukes)

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When Citizen Airman Staff Sgt. Allyson Franklin, 315th Security Forces Squadron at Joint Base Charleston, S.C., isn’t donning a Security Force blue berret, she is a preschool and elementary school teacher. In her Air Force Reserve role, she recently deployed to the Middle East where she flew 103 hours to 31 different airfields providing flyaway security for flights throughout Midwest Asia. (U.S. Air Force photo / Michael Dukes)

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JOINT BASE CHARLESTON, S.C. --

A member of the 315th Security Forces Squadron was selected this month, to be featured in the 2018 Air Force Reserve Command Profile in Leadership to be housed in the Pentagon at the end of the year.

The Joint Base Charleston Citizen Airman selected was Staff Sgt. Allyson Franklin, a Summerville, South Carolina native who currently lives in Jacksonville, Florida.

Franklin said her role as a noncommissioned officer in the Air Force Reserve, as well as being a teacher at her civilian job, gives her the stage to make a difference in people’s lives by instilling good values and knowledge.

“I am extremely elated that my profile has been amongst the selected,” Franklin said when she heard the news.

A six-year veteran of the 315th SFS, she has served as a Combat Arms Training and Maintenance block instructor responsible for providing weapons training for more than 1,700 Reservists of the 315th Airlift Wing and an additional 224 Citizen Airmen from the 560th REDHORSE Squadron.

Franklin is currently a security forces fire team leader managing five junior security forces members.

Franklin earned a degree in education at the Florida State College at Jacksonville and currently teaches preschoolers at His Kids Academy in Jacksonville, Fla.

When Franklin was asked why she chooses to serve in uniform as a Reservist her answer is anything but short.

“One of the biggest benefits is traveling to a wide variety of locations throughout the world, meeting and briefing a plethora of great people,” she said.

“Serving as a Security Forces Citizen Airmen means a great deal to me; I am humbled,” Franklin said. “Every time I put on my uniform, I think of the heroes before me who paved the way.”

Franklin said she feels blessed. “I know a lot of people not afforded the opportunity to serve in the military and reap its many rewards. The many benefits I get out of serving are covering my education expenses, and learning new things to progress forward with my career in the Air Force.”

Profiles in Leadership is a series of 40” x 70” posters that is hung in the A-Ring hallway in the Pentagon to showcase the talents, contributions and achievements of Reserve Citizen Airmen. Each year a new group of leaders who accentuate the Air Force Reserve's contribution to the Air Force mission is displayed.

“Volume IV will feature 16 more Reservists. And we hope one of them is a deserving Citizen Airman from your unit, said Philip Rhodes, HQ AFRC Public Affairs Media action officer. "This year's selectees represent a cross-section of the Air Force Reserve and the interesting backgrounds, skills and experiences that make up the Reserve Citizen Airman community."

So far, 44 Reserve Citizen Airmen have shared the spotlight. The previous profiles can be viewed on the AFRC website at http://www.afrc.af.mil/AboutUs/ProfilesinLeadership/Volume-III.aspx

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