US Air Force Technical Sergeant Edward Williams, a videographer assigned to the 1ST Combat Camera Squadron (CTCS), Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina, pauses to catch his breath while digging his defensive fighting position (foxhole). The setting up of defensive fighting positions is one of your first tasks once you hit the ground at Contingency Support Operations Course (CSOC) 97-8. The Contingency Support Operations Course gives many airmen their first taste of how contingencies work, what is expected of them, and how to survive and operate under these conditions