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  • June Chaplain's Reflections

    Hello Swamp Fox family! I hope y’all are doing well. I’m writing you from an undisclosed location in the Middle East. Things are going well here and we are doing some amazing things. It has stretched and grown me in ways that have been unexpected, difficult, and rewarding.

  • May Chaplain's Reflections

    Here we are, a third of the way through 2021, and the mission continues for the Swamp Foxes.  Many of our fellow Airmen are currently located at the tip of the spear, performing their best while putting their training to the test.  Each CBT, PowerPoint presentation, TO document, and group huddle

  • March Chaplain's Reflections

    “So, you’re like an altar boy or something?” It was perhaps the most creative guess I’ve heard when I shared my Air Force job title. This guy I met at a barbeque is now my boyfriend, despite his comparison of me to a young catholic boy in robes. More often, I get a simple, “What the heck is a

  • February Chaplain's Reflections

    Before I joined the Air National Guard in 2012, my weekends were consumed with hauling lawn mowers around town and working many hours cutting grass. This was the result of learning the industry while I was younger. During my middle school and high school years, the summers were filled with helping

  • February Chief's Perspective

    What is a Command Senior Enlisted Leader (CSEL) anyway? The CSEL is the senior enlisted leader in a state. A few months ago I was selected to serve as the interim CSEL for the South Carolina National Guard and am honored to be the first South Carolina Air National Guardsmen to hold this position. As

  • January Chaplain's Reflections

    This New Year offers the hope for a positive change from 2020. The type of change each person can control as well as what one cannot control. Hope keeps a person growing and moving forward despite the past. There is hope for a chance to reunite socially with no fear of contracting COVID and a

  • 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 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

  • October Chaplain's Reflections

    I hope you are doing well and have gotten to enjoy some of this fall weather we have been having. Relaxation is so important and yet doesn’t come easy to me. I’m a doer. So much so that I feel like I am wasting my time if I don’t do anything. Maybe you are the same way. If so, I have a question for