{"id":31817,"date":"2019-08-06T01:15:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T01:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/08\/06\/major-military-exercise-this-week-in-charleston\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T02:48:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:48:58","slug":"major-military-exercise-this-week-in-charleston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2019\/08\/06\/major-military-exercise-this-week-in-charleston\/","title":{"rendered":"Major military exercise this week in Charleston"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CHARLESTON, S.C. \u2014 A South Carolina city\u2019s highways, seaports, airspace and railways are all part of a large military exercise this week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Charleston area exercise has been named \u201cDragon Lifeline.\u201d The Post and Courier<\/a> reports that it involves more than 200 soldiers from more than 114 job fields. It also involves dozens of Humvees, ships and airplanes arriving in the Charleston area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plans called for the exercise to get started Monday with a massive convoy of soldiers from Fort Bragg<\/a>, North Carolina, travelling more than 200 miles to Joint Base Charleston. The convoy includes trailers, refrigeration units and cargo containers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Soldiers guide a Humvee driver during rail operations as part of exercise Dragon Lifeline on July 31, 2018, at Joint Base Charleston\u2019s Naval Weapon Station, S.C. (Staff Sgt. Christopher Hubenthal\/Air Force)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On Tuesday, the soldiers will unload and reload the equipment at Charleston\u2019s ports and railways near the Naval Weapons Station. On Wednesday, C-17 planes from Charleston<\/a> will fly the equipment back to Fort Bragg. Thursday, the final day of the operation, will involve shipping equipment by boat to Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia. <\/p>\n\n\n\t