June 30, 2022 495th Fighter Group Change of Command Ceremony Col. Mark Massaro relinquished command of the 495th Fighter Group to Col. John Galloway Jr. during a change of command ceremony at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, June 29, 2022. Brig. Gen. David Mineau, 15th Air Force vice commander, presided over the ceremony.
Aug. 20, 2020 Fifteenth Air Force activates, consolidates ACC’s conventional forces Fifteenth Air Force activated Aug. 20, integrating wings and direct reporting units from 12th Air Force and Ninth Air Force to form a new numbered air force responsible for generating and presenting Air Combat Command’s conventional forces.
June 5, 2020 Air Force International Health Specialists bring experience to pandemic response The Ninth Air Force-led Task Force-Southeast provided defense support of civil authorities within Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, regions III and IV. The task force’s largest mission was delivering support to a COVID-19 alternate care site set up at Temple University in Philadelphia
April 24, 2020 Commander of Air Combat Command visits TF-Southeast Gen. Mike Holmes, the commander of Air Combat Command visited the service members of Task Force-Southeast at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, April 20, 2020. Holmes toured several facilities to learn how the task force operates and about its mission to aid in the country’s fight to combat
Feb. 9, 2018 MQ-9 Reaper Airmen arrive at Shaw MQ-9 Reaper support Airmen recently began arriving at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, in line with Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson’s Jan. 10 announcement that the base will be home to a new MQ-9 group.
Jan. 30, 2018 Warfighters return to loved ones During the seven-month deployment the 74th Fighter Squadron flew more than 1,700 sorties, employed weapons over 4,400 times, destroyed 2,300 targets and killed 2,800 insurgents.
Jan. 24, 2018 Unified by diversity: BSC celebrates 53 years The Chief of Staff of the Air Force signed a special order Jan. 28, 1965, to recognize officers in 17 different medical specializations as the Biomedical Science Corps (BSC). Team Moody’s BSC is celebrating their strength through diversity for the 53rd year, during BSC appreciation week Jan. 22
Jan. 24, 2018 Team Shaw honors WWII POW Airmen and Soldiers gathered with the family of the late Col. Charles C. Heckel, World War II prisoner of war, to honor his sacrifices during a ceremony at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, Jan. 19.
Jan. 18, 2018 POL enables faster turnarounds, longer missions “With hot-pit refuels we’re prepositioned and they taxi to us and with the engines still running,” said Tech. Sgt. Zachary Beggin, 23d LRS NCO in charge of fuels distribution. “They hookup, refuel and their back up in the air and it decreases ground time by 66 percent.”Less ground time means more
Jan. 18, 2018 Airmen jump through winter skies Airmen from the 820th Base Defense Group conduct static-line parachute jumps to maintain currency and ensure their ability to rapidly deploy anywhere in the world at a moment’s notice.