AMC Safety Officer of the Year

Capt Denise L. Wasserstrom
437th Airlift Wing, Joint Base Charleston, SC

CAPT DENISE L. WASSERSTROM, High Altitude Airdrop Mission Support Training Flight Commander, 437th Special Operations Squadron, Joint Base Charleston, SC, is the Air Mobility Command (AMC) Safety Officer of the Year.

Wasserstrom delivered briefs to thirty board members and peers on high-altitude risk, human performance, and equipment, earning her Graduate Safety Professional certification. She was handpicked to lead a twelve-member Air Force Special Operations Command Safety Assessment team, conducting 748 interviews that yielded 305 findings and recommendations, directly shaping Major Command policy rewrites affecting twelve thousand personnel.

She also led an Air Force Systems Command curriculum overhaul, modernizing twenty years of outdated safety content for sixty thousand joint aircrew, and pioneered a three-phase C-17A hands-on training program that slashed pipeline time by sixty percent, establishing AMC’s first high-altitude support syllabus benchmark.