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  • 337th RS helps recruits grow brighter futures

    Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, is known to many as the “Gateway to the Air Force,” but the enlisted Airman’s journey begins long before they arrive there for basic military training.

  • 20th SFS tackles healthy snacking

    The 20th Security Forces Squadron placed a vending machine with healthy food choices inside their main building to encourage positive nutrition March 6, 2017.

  • PMEL: Local precision, nationwide mission

    The old cartoon character “Fat Albert” can mean different things to different people depending on what generation one belongs to. Older generations might call him “comedian” while newer generations might think of him as “classic.” To a select group of U.S. Air Force Airmen, however, he is simply

  • Warfighting ethos: heritage, honor, valor, Doolittle’s raid

    Editor’s note: Warfighting ethos is a multipart series highlighting the Airman’s Creed from the perspective of Shaw Air Force Base first sergeants. This is the second story in the series. All statements should be viewed as each individual’s opinion and not of the Air Force as a whole.

  • Pilots hone skills at night

    This week’s flashback Friday focuses on Airmen who work day and night to complete their missions and prepare for deployments.

  • Open roads: Shaw motorcycle safety

    Motorcycles are a hobby to some, and a lifestyle to others. They can offer a new way of experiencing the road, but they can also change a life in a matter of moments.

  • Contracts: providing funds

    Who is tasked with supplying the civil workers needed to assist military members throughout an installation? How do they get onto the installation and get to work? The 20th Contracting Squadron is tasked with ensuring that contracts, which provide funding to civilian contract worker and unit supply

  • Weasels work night shift

    U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Edward O. Santana-Acosta, 20th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron tactical aircraft maintainer, puts on hearing protection before marshalling an F-16CM Fighting Falcon at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., April 13, 2017. Maintainers are required to use personal protective gear and

  • 9th AF commander visits 20th FW

    Maj. Gen. Scott Zobrist, 9th Air Force commander, visited the 20th Fighter Wing to discuss Air Force issues and gain a better understanding of the wing’s mission March 31.