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  • Airmen from three career fields make one ‘fab’ flight

    Airmen assigned to the 332nd Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Fabrication Flight, turn cold, gray, plain, sheets of metal into shiny, new aircraft parts that are vital to the mission of keeping planes, helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles functional and flying. The Fab Flight, as it's

  • USAFCENT adopts school

    More than 20 Air Force members from the U.S. Air Forces Central A2 Directorate volunteered at Alice Drive Elementary School during the last few weeks of the Sumter school year as part of the Adopt-a-School program. The Adopt-a-School program is where units from Shaw promise to provide support to a

  • Shaw plays in MARE

    Shaw Airmen participated in a major accident response exercise June 5, which simulated an F-16 crash and the emergency response that follows. A MARE can simulate a number of things, said Erik Singletary, 20th Fighter Wing exercise and inspections director. It can be a hurricane evacuation, a

  • Strengthening community bonds

    The driving sound of music from a live band, the smell of elephant ears and corn dogs fill the air, children laugh and play on giant inflatable rides and community members show their pride of the relationship they have with a local military base. That's what happened on the streets of Sumter, S.C.

  • 55th FS heads for Alaska

    More than 125 Airmen and approximately 10 F-16s from the 55th Fighter Squadron are participating in a multinational exercise called Red Flag, which is hosted at Eielson AFB, Alaska, from June 3 -21. Several allied countries are participating in the exercise, to include Japan, Germany, Australia and