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  • Team Shaw sees off deployers

    Families and friends gathered at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C. to say their temporary farewells to Airmen leaving for a six month deployment, Sept. 16, 2011.

  • Sumter High School shows military appreciation

    Sumter High School held a Military appreciation night where Shaw Air Force Base Honor Guard posted the 'Colors' and John Kennedy, 20th Force Support Squadron school liaison officer, sang the National Anthem. Sumter community members and military personnel showed up to the game to support the local

  • Shaw, Sumter remember POW/MIA

    A ceremony was held in front of the Sumter County court house recognizing national prisoners-of-war and missing-in-action day, Sept. 16, 2011. During the ceremony, Louis Blanding Fowler, former prisoner of war, spoke about his service in World War II and was presented a POW/MIA flag. Several Sumter

  • Team Shaw welcomes home 77th 'Gamblers' FS

    The 77th Fighter Squadron returned from a five month deployment after providing air suppression and destruction of enemy defenses in support of Operation Unified Protector.

  • New Shaw fitness center addition opens doors

    Team Shaw opened the new fitness and health center addition here Sept. 12.The approximately 25,000 sq. ft. addition adds a new cardio room, weight room and a men's locker room and a women's locker room."The facility that we were in was constructed in 1968," said Charlie Glover, 20th Support Squadron

  • Gamblers provide full-spectrum support for Unified Protector

    These Gamblers never fold." This is the motto and creed by which the Airmen with the Gambler Aircraft Maintenance Unit and 77th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron -- collectively called the Gamblers -- live. They deployed here from Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., and have been supporting Operation Unified

  • Deer hunting offered at Poinsett Electronic Combat Range

    Deer hunting season is starting soon and the natural resource managers at Shaw Air Force Base and the Poinsett Electronic Combat Range are offering a program open to all base personnel and the public.The hunting program will help maintain wildlife population at proper levels and provide outdoor

  • Team Shaw remembers 9/11 in memorial ceremony

    Team Shaw members saluted in silence as a 26-vehicle convoy line full of high-mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicles, first responders, Shaw, Sumter and McEntire Joint National Guard Base fire departments and explosive ordinance disposal response vehicles drove down Shaw Drive here Sept. 9, for a

  • Air Force leaders issue Sept. 11 message

    Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz and Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James Roy issued the following message to the Airmen of the U.S. Air Force:September 11, 2011, marks the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks that claimed the lives