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  • Wing members selected for colonel promotion

    Congratulations to the following 315th Airlift Wing members who were selected for promotion to colonel during the Calendar Year 2024 Colonel Promotion Board.Lt. Col. Whitney Lee, 315th Mission Support Group commanderLt. Col. Aaron Meadows, 315 AW Wing Chaplain

  • Citizen Airmen Answer Astronauts HSFS Search, Rescue Call

    A joint-task force of Guardsmen and Reservists conquer air, space, and sea to provide Human Space Flight Support training for astronaut retrieval through search and rescue Jan. 14-17, 2025, at Patrick Space Force Base, Florida.Guardsmen from the 204th Airlift Squadron, Joint Base Pearl

  • AF Week in Photos

    This week's photos feature Airmen from around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary operations and defending America. This weekly feature showcases the men and women of the Air Force.

  • Hurricane Hunters wrap up active 2024 season

    The 2024 Atlantic and Pacific hurricane seasons ended Nov. 30, marking the end of another active season for the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi.

  • Nose Job: Maintainers Swap C-17 Radome

    Master Sgt. Christopher Allen, Tech. Sgt. Brendan Schneider, Staff Sgt. Phillip Zagornik, Senior Airman Brandon Buchanan, and Senior AIrman Darien Alexander, all from the 315th Aircarft Maintenance Squadron, perform a radome swap on a C-17 Globemaster III during their August Unit Training Assembly

  • Reserve aircrew’s quick thinking saves the day, wins 4AF award

    The 315th Airlift Wing, at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, won the 2023 Fourth Air Force Aircrew Excellence Award for their quick thinking during an in-fight emergency in April of 2023.The C-17 Globemaster III airlift mission was a de-positioning sortie slated to depart from Ramstein Air

  • 315 AW recruiters help spread holiday cheer at commissary

    The 315th Airlift Wing’s Recruiting Flight teamed up with the commissary at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina to give gift cards to local military members and veterans. The recruiters began volunteering in October as baggers at the base commissary and donated their tips to purchase the gift

  • 315 CEF Reservist train to operate, survive

    Reservist from the 315th Civil Engineer Flight, Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, exercised emergency management, explosive ordnance disposal and firefighting operations during a 315th CEF joint exercise, Nov. 4, 2023.Ability-to-survive-and-operate exercises prepare reservists to increase