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  • Heat can kill

    The upcoming Operational Readiness Inspection will demand much physical effort from many participants, and South Carolina's June sun and heat will be Enemy #1 for most outdoor workers. Here is information and advice for all Airmen to help prevent or recognize heat-related illnesses and

  • DDR 101

    With the Drug Demand Reduction program testing all active duty, guard, and reserve members, Department of Defense civilians, applicants for the Armed Forces Academies, and Reserve Officers' Training Corps, a lot of misconceptions and rumors circulate. The goal of the Drug Abuse Testing Program is to

  • Memories of a loved one

    Mary Ellen's friends convinced her that she would be crazy not to go to the officer's club luau with the handsome pilot she met in Michigan. Nearly fifty years later, Mary Ellen brought her three children, daughter-in-law and four grandchildren to share the memory of her beloved husband at Shaw Dec.

  • Hope in the Caribbean

    Leaving your job behind to spend months on a ship cruising the Atlantic to tropical, remote Caribbean locations is an ideal vacation dream for many of us. For a Shaw medical officer, the scene became reality when she boarded a Navy amphibious assault ship on a mission of bringing humanitarian aide

  • Airmen transform into college graduates

    A hush falls over the crowd; the ceremony is about to begin. More than 250 Airmen dressed in their service dress blues sit with anticipation in the ballroom of the Carolina Skies Club. Sitting in the back, family, friends and co-workers have come to show support and congratulate Shaw's newest

  • Battery included

    It may refuel aircraft the same as the other 17 fuel trucks on the flight line, but for the hybrid refueler an extra battery puts this truck in a league of its own. In an effort to 'go green,' the federal government awarded a $1.2 million contract to Mack Trucks, Inc. for the development of a

  • Hangar 1200 gets dressed to impress

    Every Airman on base has surely stepped foot in Hangar 1200 at sometime; for a commander's call, processing through the transition area during Phase II exercises or turning wrenches on the 20,000-pound icon of Shaw on a daily basis. Airmen may have noticed the flightline mural spanning 80 feet

  • ONE mission, ONE team, ONE special night

    It was a night that made history. A slight muggy breeze filled the air, ushering thunder clouds off in the distance, and as dusk slipped over the crimson Carolina horizon, a special group of Shaw Airmen charged with supporting Operation Noble Eagle would soon become a part of the 50,000th sortie

  • Cadets play ball

    He steps to the plate, knocks the dirt off his cleats and stares down the pitcher. The pitcher looks to his catcher for the sign with one thought going through his head -- "get this guy out." The pitch is delivered. He steps into the pitch keeping his eye on the ball. In one swift motion, using

  • Soaring gas prices affect Airmen's budgets

    An Airman stops at the shoppette to gas up his truck. Tech. Sgt. Jemal Jones, 20th Security Forces Squadron K-9 section kennel master, watches as the meter rolls past $40. A few moments later, it passes $60. Finally, the sergeant hears the snap from the handle; letting him know his tank is full. He