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  • Sumter salutes veterans with parade, ceremony

    Hundreds of veterans, active duty military personnel and members of the community took over Main Street for the second annual Veterans Day parade in Sumter, South Carolina, Nov. 11.Team Shaw had a strong representation, from the base honor guard leading the parade to the formations and various

  • Taking the 'roar' downrange

    The 79th Fighter Squadron deployed members to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel during the month of October.

  • Another year older

    The 20th Fighter Wing, established July 28, 1947, carved another notch in its belt of existence with the arrival of its 69th birthday at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., July 28, 2016.According to the Air Force Historical Research Agency prior to the U.S. Air Force being established on 18 September 1947,

  • Thunderbirds fly hometown hero

    One local firefighter received the trip of a lifetime here, May 20.The U.S. Air Demonstration Squadron, the Thunderbirds, awarded Christopher Geddings, Sumter City fire department engineer, with the chance of a lifetime, to fly with them.“It was awesome,” said Geddings. “We did all kinds of