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315th ALCF gets top AFRC award

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  • By Staff Sgt. Rashard Coaxum
  • 315th Airlift Wing Public Affairs
JOINT BASE CHARLESTON, S.C. --  The 315th Airlift Control Flight brought home top honors this year by winning the award for Air Force Reserve Command Airlift Control Flight of the Year.

The award, which was presented by Lt. Gordy Griggs to the unit, signified top performance among ALCF's and hard work and dedication to the ALCF mission, Griggs said.

"We [ALCF's] build partnerships," Griggs said. "We are at the tip of the spear with building partnerships with non-Department of Defense partners like FEMA, the FBI and so many others because it's what we do, and we do it very well."

Griggs - the Air Force Reserve Command readiness and programs chief - presented the award to 315th ALCF commander Lt. Col. Lamar Thigpen, who received it on behalf of the unit.

After receiving the award for the unit Thigpen praised the work of the airmen who worked beside him to make the award possible.

"The Swampfoxes are the best in the business," he said. "We know that they're good and now we have [AFRC] headquarters recognition to show they're good."

"I'm accepting on their behalf, but it's these guys [airmen] who really did the work," Thigpen said. "The credit really goes to the Swampfoxes."