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  • LZSO training with the 20th OSS

    When the mission demands precise and timely landings, even the most challenging terrain can be overcome. Landing zone safety officers play a critical role in ensuring aircraft can safely touch down in contingency locations, no matter how remote or underdeveloped.

  • 1st, 20th OSS showcase new capabilities of DICE-4 kit

    A team of four U.S. Air Force intelligence analysts from the 20th Operations Support Squadron at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, traveled to JBLE to showcase the capabilities of the fourth iteration Deployed Intelligence Combat Element kit.

  • U.S. Air Force and Army team up to load helicopters at Shaw

    U.S. Air Force Airmen from the 20th Logistics Readiness Squadron teamed up with Soldiers from the 1-151st Attack Reconnaissance Battalion to load up AH-64E Apache for a joint forcible entry land and air operations exercise in Florida. The two-day process marked the first time U.S. Army AH-64Es were

  • Emergency at 580 feet

    Staff Sgt. Samuel McLean, 20th Operations Support Squadron Air Traffic Control watch supervisor, was handling a single U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon on approach to Shaw Air Force Base with radar approach control when a phone call leads him to assist a Cessna 550 Citation II civilian pilot who

  • Training the next generation of Air Traffic Controllers

    From organizing and expediting ground to air traffic, to issuing instructions and monitoring aircraft in air space over the ocean off the continental United States, the U.S. Air Force’s Air Traffic Control (ATC) tower and Radar Approach Control (RAPCON) Airmen are trained to the highest of standards