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  • Team Shaw builds community pride in students

    Team Shaw Airmen and Sumter community members volunteered to speak to fourth graders at Wilson Drive Elementary School Sept. 6, 2012.The event at Willow Drive Elementary School was the first of program, called My Community and Me, which is scheduled to continue until Oct. 11. My Community and Me

  • Company grade officers clean highway

    Volunteers from the Company Grade Officers Council here took part in the Adopt-A-Highway program, Sept. 7.The participants covered both sides of a mile stretch of highway, finding and bagging garbage that accumulated there."It is a commitment that the CGOC have taken on," said Capt. Claire Jarry,

  • Shaw Airmen kick back

    The Keishidojo Martial Arts and Fitness Center in Sumter has offered Team Shaw Airmen a different and unique means of fitness. Personnel at the martial arts center offer various classes which Airmen are able to participate in to learn different styles of martial arts.The class aids Airmen in

  • Base library program provides stories and crafts

    Marie Stanley, the children's program coordinator for the base library, reads "Clifford at the Circus" and "The Circus Ship" to children of service members at the Shaw library, Aug. 29, 2012. The children then pretended to walk on a tightrope and created paper lion puppets. The McElveen Library

  • Shaw hosts 1st Sgt symposium

    NCO's from around the Air Force gathered here for a first sergeant's symposium Aug. 27-30.The symposium was attended by 103 NCO's who were interested in becoming a first sergeant or are currently assigned first sergeant tasks as an additional duty. While here, the attendees learned of the duties

  • F-111E Aardvark dedication ceremony

    A dedication ceremony for the 20th Fighter Wing's restored F-111E Aardvark is scheduled here, Sept. 12 at 1 p.m.Presiding over the ceremony will be Col. Lance A. Kildron, 20th FW vice commander.The event will be preceded by lunch at the Carolina Skies Club and Conference Center at 11:30 a.m. and

  • Third Army welcomes new chief of staff

    Third Army/ARCENT honored Brig. Gen. Charles L. Taylor, Third Army/ARCENT chief of staff, with a welcome ceremony Aug. 22 at Lucky Park outside of Patton Hall here."This is truly the perfect setting to be formally welcomed into the Third Army Family.  This ceremony provides us with a moment to enjoy

  • Congressional staffers visit Shaw

    South Carolina Congressional staff members toured the installation and learned about Team Shaw here Aug. 21.More than ten staffers and local civic leaders spent the day learning about the 20th Fighter Wing, 9th Air Force, U.S. Air Forces Central and Third Army/U.S. Army Central missions.Retired Maj.

  • Gamblers welcome new honorary commander

    The 77th Fighter Squadron welcomed a new honorary commander at a recognition ceremony, Aug. 24 at Hangar 1200 here.Dr. Steven Lauzon, a Sumter Surgical partner, officially just joined the Gamblers but has been a long time supporter and friend to the squadron."To be honest, we really didn't pick Dr.