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  • Sumter provides city tour for Third Army Soldiers, families

    From plantation-era homes to multiple sports complexes to children's theater productions and music on the square, Sumter, S.C. offers a multitude of opportunities that make it a great place to live and work. Incoming Soldiers from Third Army/U.S. Army Central saw this first-hand as they participated

  • AFSO21 improves F-16 landing gear maintenance

    Recently, the 20th Maintenance Group conducted a rapid improvement event for the F-16 landing gear inspection process to identify the inefficiencies of removing the old landing gear and installing a new gear. The team of subject matter experts was comprised of Master Sgt. Nicolas Iorga and Tech.

  • NDI: the CSI of maintenance

    CSI, a popular stateside television show, portrays police investigators taking samples from a crime scene to a laboratory - running sophisticated tests and solving crimes.Well, CSI eat your heart out, because Joint Base Balad has its own CSI team - and they get to work on jet aircraft.The 332nd

  • National Immunization Awareness Month begins

    School is starting soon and along with that, so is flu season. To help raise awareness of the upcoming challenges that come with this time of year, August is National Immunization Awareness Month.According to the Health and Wellness Center here, the goal of NIAM is to increase awareness about

  • Initial preferred F-35 bases list doesn't include Shaw

    Thursday the Air Force announced the preferred alternatives for operational and training bases for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.Last October, when Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley announced five operations candidate bases, they included Shaw AFB/McEntire Joint National Guard Base, S.C.;

  • Red Flag provides unique training opportunities

    Four times per year, U.S. forces and allies from around the world gather at "The Home of the Fighter Pilot" to participate in Red Flag and gain coalition air combat experiences in a peacetime environment. They fly together on the Nevada Test and Training Range here, the U.S. Air Force's premiere

  • Current, former Airmen eligible for stop loss special pay

    Thousands of current and former Air Force members remain eligible to receive $500 in retroactive special pay for each month they were affected by stop loss. Airmen have until Oct. 21 to apply through the Air Force Personnel Center here. Air Force people eligible include active, retired and former

  • 20th MDG Airmen return from Haiti deployment with gratitude

    The 20th Medical Group members returned from their Haiti humanitarian deployment with one thing in common: appreciation.Appreciation for simple things like, the medicine Americans have access to, the fresh water that comes out of the tap and the things Americans take for granted daily.The group of

  • "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" survey a must to let Airmen viewpoints be known

    "Your opinion matters" is the view of Air Force officials on the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" survey released July 7 to more than 98,000 randomly selected active-duty Air Force, Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve members. Selected Airmen have received an e-mail with the survey from Westat, a

  • Twin Captains cross paths in Kyrgyzstan

    Capt. Taylor Reynolds (left), here for six months with the 376th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron deployed from Aviano Air Base, Italy, poses with his twin brother July 22. Capt. Thomas Reynolds, from the 20th Logistics Readiness Squadron at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., is forward deploying for