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  • January Fitness Tips

    Wishing everyone a Happy and Healthy 2014!!!Tips for Working Out: Hydrate: You always want to be well hydrated before working out. If you wait until you're thirsty, it's already too late: you're dehydrated. Have a bottle of water with you while you're working out, too.Eat Beforehand: Gearing up for

  • January Chaplain's Reflection

    "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us," -Ralph Waldo Emerson.About this time of year, many people examine how well they did on their New Year's resolutions made last year. How about you? Are you wondering why you slipped up or are you sailing

  • Before the Yellow Ribbon Program - One Airman's Reflection

    In October 2006, I returned home from a deployment to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany. About a month after being home, I found myself struggling with some of the trauma I had experienced while caring for the spiritual and emotional needs of severely injured wounded warriors from Iraq and

  • December Commander's Corner

    As I rapidly approach the end of my military career, I want to take this opportunity to thank those of you that I have had the pleasure of working with over the past 27 years in the South Carolina Air National Guard. I joined the military in 1980 to get money to pay for college and 33 years later I

  • December Chaplain's Reflection

    "Loss and Hope - Remembering Pearl Harbor" "Yesterday, December 7, 1941--a date which will live in infamy--the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan...With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of

  • December Fitness Tips

    If you are cautiously watching your sugar intake, beware of these foods or at least start reading your labels:Barbeque saucesFruit yogurtsChinese takeoutPasta sauceAgaveDried fruitsGranola barsEnergy barsDefined Bicep workouts:Standing Barbell Curl - 10, 8, 6 reps. Take a shoulder width grip on

  • December Retiree's Corner

    Our November luncheon produced around 70 folks, a good number, but as always we can do better. We had four first-timers, they were Wallace Reese, Jimmy Ewing, Dixie Jenkinson (Boyd's wife), and a guest, Van Price, who is the South Carolina National Guard Association's Executive Director. It was good

  • December Chief's Concerns

    First of all, let me take this opportunity to congratulate everyone for the phenomenal job on the September Certified Readiness Evaluation! I believe it is accurate to say that you all presented your best to the inspection team. All of the effort and preparation paid off. As always, the Swamp Fox

  • November Commander's Corner

    In our line of work, and I suppose life in general, emotion is like stress. The right amount can improve our performance while too much can be a detriment. Most of us feel an emotional attachment to the Swamp Fox; we consider the reputation and legacy ours to protect which is a key to our success.

  • November Chief's Concerns

    Wow, it's hard to believe Thanksgiving is right around the corner. With the fast pace of everyday life I ask everyone to take a moment and think about the important things, family and friends. Sometimes with the inspections and the deployments, we forget the little stuff. We forget about the