Joint Base Charleston
| Joint Base Charleston | |||||||||
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| Near North Charleston and Goose Creek, South Carolina in the United States of America | |||||||||
US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft assigned to the 437th Airlift Wing sit on the flight line at Joint Base Charleston during 2013. | |||||||||
| Site information | |||||||||
| Type | US military Joint Base | ||||||||
| Owner | Department of Defense | ||||||||
| Operator | US Air Force | ||||||||
| Controlled by | Air Mobility Command | ||||||||
| Condition | Operational | ||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||
| Location | |||||||||
| Coordinates | 32°53′55″N 080°02′26″W / 32.89861°N 80.04056°W (Air Base) 32°57′55.8″N 79°58′16.7″W / 32.965500°N 79.971306°W (Naval Weapons Station) | ||||||||
| Site history | |||||||||
| Built | 1942 (as Charleston Air Force Base) | ||||||||
| In use | 2009 – present (as Joint Base) | ||||||||
| Garrison information | |||||||||
| Current commander | Colonel Michael A. Freeman | ||||||||
| Garrison | 628th Air Base Wing (host) | ||||||||
| Airfield information | |||||||||
| Identifiers | IATA: CHS, ICAO: KCHS, FAA LID: CHS, WMO: 722083 | ||||||||
| Elevation | 46 metres (151 ft) AMSL | ||||||||
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| Airfield shared with Charleston International Airport Source: Federal Aviation Administration | |||||||||
Joint Base Charleston (IATA: CHS, ICAO: KCHS, FAA LID: CHS) is a United States military facility located partly in the city of North Charleston, South Carolina, and partly in the city of Goose Creek, South Carolina. The facility is under the jurisdiction of the United States Air Force's 628th Air Base Wing of the Air Mobility Command (AMC).
The facility is an amalgamation of the United States Air Force's Charleston Air Force Base and the United States Navy's Naval Support Activity Charleston which were merged on October 1, 2010. Of the three Naval Weapons Stations on the U.S. East Coast, the Charleston facility is the largest.
A joint civil-military airport, Joint Base Charleston shares runways with Charleston International Airport for commercial airline operations on the south side of the airfield and general aviation aircraft operations on the east side.