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  • December Chaplain's Reflections

    I hope that you and your families are doing well and looking forward to the holidays. You may also be looking forward to celebrating New Year’s! Although I believe that it will not be so much of a celebration of the coming of the new year but rather the leaving behind of this past year!

  • December Retiree's Corner

    We are in the early stages of honoring all the Desert Shield/Storm call-ups. This month we will be honoring the 169th Services Flight, the 169th Tactical Fighter Group, and the 169th Mission Support Squadron.

  • November Commander's Corner

    In 1983 I enlisted in the South Carolina Air National Guard at age 17 and it only took me 37 years to finally get an opportunity to write a column for the SCANG News. As my high school basketball coach once told me, “Bowers, you’re very slow. But you make up for it with a lack of quickness!” True

  • November Chief's Perspective

    A lot of us have always considered McEntire Joint National Guard Base (JNGB) as a part of our family. This is the place where we usually spend more time than we do with a lot of our own family members. Everyone has busy lives with jobs, school, hobbies, friends and even other business ventures. The

  • November Shirt Blast

    This year is quickly coming to a close as is evident by the return of the holiday season. What a year it has been: a pandemic, political unrest, government mandated shutdowns, and the list goes on. It has been unprecedented to say the least. Everyone, throughout the world has been affected in some

  • November Chaplain's Reflections

    "For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.” Ecclesiastes 3:1The year 2020 has had its fair share of challenges. Travel restrictions, social distancing, a quarantine and I am sure there are many others which are overlooked! In June while attending training, I was

  • November Retiree's Corner

    For now we continue to hold no monthly luncheons. It’s been since March since we have had a luncheon and from the looks of it, it could be a year before things settle down. So we continue on. Nelson McLeod came up with the idea of sending out old pictures of people for posterity sake. And it seems

  • November Fitness Tips

    Core Moves for the Gym/Home for the Holidays and Tips for a Healthy Thanksgiving

  • October Commander's Corner

    Is there any doubt that the Airmen of the SCANG are the best and the brightest in the Air Force? As I look out at the formations and talk with Airmen, NCOs and officers from multiple squadrons, across the full spectrum of backgrounds, I am in awe of the talent and effort that each and every one of