FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Shaw Air Force Base, Sumter, South Carolina ~ 29 JULY 2014

Serving The Best Troops And Veterans In The World!! | The Canteen Crew

[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: Shaw Air Force Base, Sumter, South Carolina

Shaw Air Force Base is the home of the United States Air Force 20th Fighter Wing (20 FW). It is also home to Headquarters, Ninth Air Force (9 AF) and Headquarters, United States Central Command Air Forces (USCENTAF). The mission of the 20 FW is to provide, project, and sustain combat-ready air forces. It is the Air Force's largest combat F-16 wing.

Today's 20th Fighter Wing can trace its lineage to 28 July 1947, when the 20th Fighter Wing, began at Shaw Field, South Carolina, as a Ninth Air Force unit. Components of the new fighter wing included the 20th Maintenance and Supply Group, the 20th Airdrome Group, and the 20th Station Medical Group (later Tactical Hospital).

 The F-16 Fighting Falcon is a compact, multi-role fighter aircraft. It is highly maneuverable and has proven itself in air-to-air combat and air-to-surface attack. It provides a relatively low-cost, high-performance weapon system for the United States and allied nations.

The Fighting Falcon is a dogfighter with numerous innovations including a frameless, bubble canopy for better visibility, side-mounted control stick to ease control while under high g-forces, and reclined seat to reduce the effect of g-forces on the pilot.

It was also the first fighter aircraft deliberately built to sustain 9-g turns. It has a thrust-to-weight ratio greater than one, providing enough power to climb and accelerate vertically – if necessary.

Read More About Shaw Air Force Base HERE!

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[E.G.C.]

It's going OK. Enjoying some nice weather. Unusually nice for this time of year.

We're going to get new flooring for the guest bedroom. The guy who's doing this is coming by later today to see what needs to be done.

We've been having some ISP issues. Yesterday, my access to Facebook and Twitter went down. We're on Pioneer Internet. Someone from Watonga reported not having Internet.

We'll see how things go today. May get some rain tonight and tomorrow. Flash Flood Watch for Central OK tomorrow.

[Arrowhead1952]

Good morning to everyone at the Canteen. 77º and headed for the upper 90s again. We are in the broken record, hot summer, weather cycle again.

[Arrowhead1952]

Good morning ladies and (((HUGS)))

[luvie]

Gooooood Tuesday mornin', Early Birds!
It's my day off and I actually slept till 8:30. LOL!
It was nice NOT to hear the alarm! :)
Hope all of YOU are having a good day...
....and will get home on time to relax!
Is it hot there? Is here!
Supposed to cool off this weekend.
We'll see. LOL!
((((hugs))))

[E.G.C.]

((HUGS))Good morning, LUV W. How’s it going?

[SandRat]

Good morning, Kathy...((HUGS))...had a Marvelous Maddi Monday?

Thunder and lightning requires GramMa GanPa Hugs

[luvie]

Howdy, EGC! (((hugs)))

It’s all good today! Hope you and Bo get some lake time! Is it still hot up there? I’ll be driving up to OKC next week...and hope it’s a bit cooler there than it is here! :)

[E.G.C.]

It’s cooled off some. May get some rain tomorrow. There’s a Flash Flood Watch for part of Northwest Oklahoma and the Panhandle.

[luvie]

Some rain...not floods...would be SO nice! :)

[HiJinx]

Anal Probe - Bad!
Drugs - Good!

Negative Results - Better!

I’m due for one again in a few months....

[SandRat]

[SandRat]