Combat Airlifter of the Week: Tech. Sgt. Charles Price IV

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  • By Senior Airman Isabella Ortega
  • 19th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

 

Rank and name: Tech. Sgt. Charles E. Price IV

Unit: 19th Civil Engineer Squadron/Explosive Ordnance Disposal

Official Duty title: Explosive Ordnance Disposal equipment noncommissioned officer in charge

Hometown: Barksdale AFB, LA

Time in service: 10 years

Time at Little Rock: 3 years

Goals: To one day make Chief and continue the Chief Price dynasty, and to build a homestead with a lot of land and animals.  

Hobbies: Quality time with wife, antique shopping, raising chickens.

Tech. Sgt. Price, a 19th Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordinance Disposal equipment noncommissioned officer in charge, responded to a munitions movement incident, saving more than 200 projectiles containing submunitions inside of a mile-wide safe area.

Additionally, during a higher headquarters mission, his team thwarted an unauthorized entry and cleared 25 vehicles of hazards.

Finally, after witnessing a seven care pile up, Price provided aid to five people and assisted emergency responders to get those who were injured to a higher level of care.