Description
Computer made/mounted on velcro 3.0 inch-80mm
437th SPECIAL OPERATIONS SQUADRON (AMC)
The 437th Special Operations Squadron, “Scorpions,” is assigned to 437th Operations Group, 437th Airlift Wing stationed at Joint Base Charleston, SC, maintains a continual employment posture of personnel and equipment to provide C-17 Special Operations Low-Level II (SOLL II) qualified crews to meet CJCS global airlift delivery and employment of special operations force packages. The squadron conducts rapid global infiltration, exfiltration, resupply and specialized refueling missions in support of special operations forces in hostile, denied, or politically sensitive areas.
History.
In 1979, Military Airlift Command (MAC) tasked Charleston AFB, SC, to provide specially trained C-141 flight crews to provide strategic airlift to the joint Special Operations community. By Aug 1983, all C-141 SOLL II crews were consolidated at Charleston AFB, SC. With the impending retirement of the C-141 from active duty in Sep 2004, the C-17 SOLL II Follow on Testing & Evaluation (FOT&E) began in 1997. The FOT&E evaluated the C-17 in all aspects of the Special Operations Low Level mission and was completed successfully in Sep 1998. The C-17 SOLL II program was declared fully mission capable in Oct 2002 and in Apr 2004 the C-17 became the only aircraft in Air Mobility Command (AMC) executing the SOLL II mission.