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  • Staying safe with supplements

    There are many questions and expectations people have about supplements. Individuals often take supplements to help boost metabolism, testosterone, endurance or for the ability to fight off illness or disease. Sometimes, people search for a supplement to help with a pre-existing medical condition

  • Munitions Airmen support pilot training

    High above their various training grounds, 20th Fighter Wing F-16 Fighting Falcon pilots navigate the skies in simulated battle, deploying munitions, such as inert bombs, and using their M61A1 Vulcan 20 mm rotary cannons to strike targets.

  • Getting to know Code of Conduct: Articles IV-VI

    Retired Air Force Col. Dewey Waddell was shot down in his F-105 Thunderchief over the jungles of Vietnam, July 5, 1967. He spent the next six years as a prisoner of war in the Hanoi Hilton.

  • Falcons fly for freedom

    Having never lived at a military installation before arriving at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, I was initially startled at the sight and sound of an F-16CM Fighting Falcon roaring over me as it came in for landing.

  • 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.