Myrtle Beach in Horry County, South Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic)
Chaplain (Major General) Charles C. Baldwin
Chaplain Baldwin served as the Senior Installation Chaplain at Mytle Beach Air Force Base during the period June 1989 to 1992. During this period he also accompanied the 354th Tactical Fighter Wing on deployment to King Fahad International Airport, Saudi Arabia, in support of Desert Storm/Desert Shield.
He is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and the Air War College. After he completed undergraduate pilot training, he was assigned as an EC-121 pilot to the 552nd Airborne Early Warning and control Wing. From there he was sent to helicopter pilot training at Fort Rucker, Alabama, and then to South Vietnam as HH-53 helicopter pilot.
In 1974, he returned to civilian life, earned a master of divinity degree from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky and subsequently served as a Baptist minister. In 1979, he returned to the Air Force as a Protestant chaplain.
Important assignments as Chaplain included Senior Protestant Chaplain, United States Air Force Academy; Staff officer in the office of Command Chaplain, Headquarters United States Air Forces in Europe; Staff officer, Office of the Chief of Chaplains, Headquarters United States Air Force; Commandant, United States Air Force Chaplain Service Institute, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama; and Command Chaplain, Air Education and Training Command, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas.
In June 2004, he was selected as the United States Air Force Chief of Chaplains. As such, he leads an Air Force Chaplain Service of 2,200 Chaplains and Chaplain Assistants. He also is a member of the Armed Forces Chaplains Board in which he and other military service chaplains advise the Secretary of Defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff on religious, ethical and quality of life concerns.
Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Churches & Religion • Military.
Location. 33° 39.698′ N, 78° 56.253′ W. Marker is in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in Horry County. Memorial is at the intersection of Pampas Drive and Mallard Lake Drive, on the left when traveling west on Pampas Drive. Located in Market Common. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Myrtle Beach SC 29577, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Colonel Charles M. Thrash (here, next to this marker); Woodland Park Base Housing (here, next to this marker); Colonel Alva "George" Branch (here, next to this marker); 1943 (within shouting distance of this marker); Chapel (within shouting distance of this marker); Bowling Center (within shouting distance of this marker); Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Gerald R. Murray (within shouting distance of this marker); Movie Theater (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Myrtle Beach.
Also see . . . Charles C. Baldwin on Wikipedia. (Submitted on March 25, 2017, by Michael Herrick of Southbury, Connecticut.)
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