Shaw Air Force Base

Sumter braces for mandated federal furloughs

U.S. Air Force Col. Clay Hall, 20th Fighter Wing commander, speaks to Airmen and civilians at Shaw during a town hall style meeting at Shaw Air Force Base, SC, Feb. 28, 2013. During the meeting Hall, spoke about local impacts of sequestration.

Looming furloughs for civilian Air Force employees in Sumter will take a big chunk out of those workers' take-home pay and out of the local economy.

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New commander takes charge of Shaw Air Force Base

Shaw Air Force Base wrapped two ceremonies into one Friday, as airmen welcomed a new commanding officer for the 9th Air Force and said goodbye to their outgoing commander as he ends his military career.
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Shaw airman charged with breaking into Sumter Co. school

Michael Paul Wackford, 26, of Dalzell, faces three counts of second-degree burglary and three counts of possession of burglary tools after the Sumter County Sheriff's Office said hundreds of dollars from a school safe went missing on at least three separate occasions, once while the suspect was ...
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Sumter streets renamed to honor hometown war dead

Off and on for 60 years, Sumter has sought to honor its war dead by naming city streets after them.
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Traveling war memorial opens in Sumter

The Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall arrived in Sumter along with a welcoming procession on Wednesday and was installed at its temporary location behind the Swan Lake Visitors Center on Thursday, but Friday marked the formal opening ceremony for the Wall’s display.
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Travelling Vietnam War monument to stop in Sumter

Vehicles from Sumter Police Department, Sumter County Sheriff's Office, Clarendon County Sheriff's Office, S.C. Highway Patrol and several motorcycle clubs will meet up with the traveling Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall convoy at about 1 p.m. Wednesday at the rest area just south of the Lake Marion...
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Center opens at Shaw for nursing and expectant soldiers

Army women have to be tough, but many of them also need space in their lives to be caring mothers to young children.
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Shaw AFB cancels Jammin’ July 4th

The annual Fourth of July fireworks show in Sumter’s Dillon Park has been canceled because of military budget cuts.
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Mulvaney: Expect sequestration to last through current fiscal year

U.S. Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., expects the sequestration — dramatic cutbacks throughout the federal government including the ordering of one of the fighter squadrons stationed at Shaw Air Force Base to stand down — to last at least through the current fiscal year.
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Mothers in uniform get room on base to nurse young

Nursing women at a major Army headquarters in South Carolina don't have to hide in a rest room if they want to breast-feed their babies or express milk for their young.
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Shaw commander tells Sumter business leaders sequestration will hurt

The commander’s breakfast is meant to highlight the bond between Shaw Air Force Base and the surrounding community. On Wednesday, Maj. Gen. Lawrence Wells focused on what it would mean if that bond breaks.