Photo By Senior Airman Christian Silvera | U.S. Air Force Airmen from the 15th and 16th Airlift Squadrons and personnel from the...... read more read more
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JOINT BASE CHARLESTON, S.C.—The maintainers’ red-tinted faces began to perspire as the rumbling sounds of the C-17 Globemaster III engines filled the air. The only option was to complete the task at hand, and the loadmasters were eager and determined to do so.
In an effort to better prepare for wartime scenarios, loadmasters from the 15th and 16th Airlift Squadrons teamed up with the North Charleston Police Department to conduct a training exercise using the police department’s Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles, or MRAPs, at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, Sept. 16, 2022.
“Preparedness,” said Staff Sgt. Christian Magliocca, 15th AS air and land loadmaster. “That was the name of the game for today.”
To simulate a wartime scenario, loadmasters were tasked with attentively measuring the dimensions of two MRAPs and loading them onto a C-17 Globemaster III in a timely manner.
“We want to make sure our loadmasters are as capable and ready as they need to be for when they go down range,” Magliocca said. “We want them to have the confidence to be able to accomplish something similar to this exercise whenever they’re out there with hard deadlines.”
Ready for any challenge, the loadmasters welcomed the opportunity to train with local law enforcement.
“We wanted to do some abnormal training,” Magliocca said. “We work with the Army, Navy, and DoD partners a lot, so we thought it’d be a good idea to reach out to the community and get the North Charleston Police involved.”
Personnel from the NCPD trained alongside the loadmasters, operating the MRAPs.
“We got an opportunity that we don’t get often and got to practice skills like tight proximity parking and low-speed maneuvering,” said Kyle Jamison, NCPD technology unit supervisor. “We were excited to accept the invitation to do some training with Air Force personnel.”
Overall, both parties were able to benefit from one another, strengthening Joint Base Charleston’s partnership with the local community and making future collaborative efforts a reality going forward.
| Date Taken: | 09.21.2022 |
| Date Posted: | 09.22.2022 13:16 |
| Story ID: | 429811 |
| Location: | JOINT BASE CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, US |
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