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  • Remembering Trevor Moheit

    Team Shaw members gathered for a memorial in remembrance of Senior Airman Trevor Moheit who was assigned to the 20th Equipment Maintenance Squadron aircraft structural maintenance, to celebrate his life and the people he impacted on June 20.

  • 20th FW, 72nd ARS team up to stay sharp

    An F-16 Fighting Falcon cannot fly around the world on one tank of fuel. When the mission demands keeping the jets in the air, pilots can refuel with one of the Air Force’s gas stations in the sky.

  • Shaw Weasels play to remember four chaplains

    On a cold February morning in 1943, 150 miles from the coast of Greenland, a German submarine U2 shot a barrage of torpedoes, striking and sinking the U.S. Army Transport Dorchester and sending 902 service members, merchant seamen and civilian workers into the frigid water.

  • Greetings, Weasel Nation!

    Shortly after I took command of the 20th Fighter Wing, I watched our Viper demo team perform. As Maj. John “Rain” Waters rolled the F-16 Fighting Falcon into a tight 9Gs turn, the deep rumble of the mighty GE-129 engine shook my chest and I thought to myself – I AM HOME!

  • Two Shaw Airmen earn DFC saving 88 lives

    U.S. Air Force Col. Daniel Lasica, former 20th Fighter Wing commander, presented the Distinguished Flying Cross to Captains John Nygard and Salvador Cruz, 79th Fighter Squadron instructor pilots, at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, June 7.

  • 20th Medical Support Squadron welcomes new commander

    U.S. Air Force Col. Brian Wyrick, 20th Medical Group commander, left, gives the 20th Medical Support Squadron (MDSS) guidon to Lt. Col. Melissa Meister, 20th MDSS commander, at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., June 12, 2018. Meister assumed command of seven flights consisting of 135 personnel. The 20th