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shaw Air Force Base opened its gates to

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the center community for the shark Air

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expo this past weekend before the air

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show kicked off , members of the United

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States Air Force Thunderbirds traveled

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to center high school to talk to the

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students , not just about their

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upcoming role in the air expo , but

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about life decisions . Junior ROTC

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instructor . Retired Chief Master

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Sergeant eric cooper says their visit

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was important to the community . I

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think it's very important to have them

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come here just to give the kids a

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another angle , something to look at in

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terms of maybe what they want to be in

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life . The Thunderbirds asked for a

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volunteer from the audience and allowed

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him to try on flight equipment and

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demonstrate their uses to his peers .

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As the Thunderbirds traveled back to

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shaw centre and shaw worked together to

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mitigate traffic for the air expo with

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signs posted and buses from shaw

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waiting at the mall to take large

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groups to the base . The airshow was

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ago . Chief Master Sergeant joseph

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Bronson says , the Air expo brings

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various organizations in the community

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closer Any time when you can bring in

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the public to see what they normally

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wouldn't get to see from the active

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duty and the various military services

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that were represented here . It

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automatically brings your public and

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your private sectors . You have very

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support from various organizations

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outside of the base and that

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combination gave the public an idea of

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how we work as one team and how the Air

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Force is still a formidable force to be

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reckoned as the air expo comes to his

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final act the Thunderbirds take to the

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skies . Chief

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Cooper says , the expo brings us

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together and allows the community to

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see what we really do . Uh This is

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always going to be a good thing to have

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uh any time we have the Thunderbirds or

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any other branch of service to come out

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and do something for the community like

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this right here . It definitely helped

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build the relationship that we have

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with the community . It gives uh

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Everybody a chance to actually come out

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and get up close to uh some of the

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aircraft out there because there's

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gonna be a lot of static displays set

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up and some of them all they see um on

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a day to day basis is when the aircraft

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were out doing flying missions , uh

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training missions , uh the 16th . But

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when we have an air show like this ,

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everybody gets a chance to go out close

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to the flight line and actually really

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do a close up personal with the

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aircraft in the first class shaw Air

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Force Base south Carolina