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South Carolina Air Guard Showcases ACE Concepts
July 26, 2024 — ST. CROIX, U.S. Virgin Islands - The South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing conducted Exercise Caribbean Fox at St. Croix July 16-24, focusing on mastering Agile Combat Employment...

South Carolina Airmen Join 2nd Joint Fox EMBER Training
June 27, 2024 — EASTOVER, S.C. - Eighteen South Carolina Air National Guard Airmen and 44 military personnel from seven states and one territory conducted Emergency Management Battlefield Expeditionary Response...

Air Guard Units Test Readiness at Sentry Savannah Exercise
May 22, 2024 — SAVANNAH, Ga. - Over 775 participants and 40 aircraft from units across the Air National Guard, Air Force Reserve and Active Duty Air Force participated in Sentry Savannah 2024, the Air National...

South Carolina National Guard Airmen Return From Deployment
April 12, 2024 — MCENTIRE JOINT NATIONAL GUARD BASE, S.C. - Airmen assigned to the 169th Fighter Wing returned to South Carolina April 10, ending a six-month deployment to U.S. Central Command’s area of responsibility...

South Carolina Guard Airman Receives Bronze Star Medal
November 27, 2023 — MCENTIRE JOINT NATIONAL GUARD BASE, S.C. - Master Sgt. Christopher Vine with the 245th Air Traffic Control Squadron was recently awarded the Bronze Star Medal for his achievements while deployed to...

South Carolina Air Guard Supports Operation Healthy Delta
June 22, 2023 — SIKESTON, Mo. – Airmen from the South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing participated in Operation Healthy Delta, providing free medical, dental and vision care to several thousand...

Airmen Go Off Grid for Terror Threat Training
May 19, 2023 — EASTOVER, S.C. - Air National Guard units from South Carolina, Alabama, the District of Columbia and Tennessee participated in Emergency Management Battlefield Expeditionary Response training, also...

South Carolina Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing is Mission Ready
October 28, 2022 — WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. – From exercising air power in South America to conducting hurricane evacuations and deploying short notice to support a high-priority exercise, Airmen assigned to the South...

South Carolina Guard Builds Blackfeet Nation Senior Center
September 15, 2022 — HEART BUTTE, Mont. – Thirty-nine Airmen from the South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Civil Engineer Squadron and 169th Force Support Squadron built a senior center in Montana for the Blackfeet...

South Carolina Air National Guard, Colombia Wrap Up Exercise
September 15, 2022 — BARRANQUILLA, Colombia – About 100 Airmen and eight F-16 fighter jets from the South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing participated in Relampago VII, a combined Colombian and U.S...

Sentry Savannah builds warfighter readiness, lethality
May 25, 2022 — SAVANNAH, Ga. – About 1,300 Total Force Airmen, joint personnel and civilian partners and more than 50 airframes participated in exercise Sentry Savannah May 2-15.Hosted by the Air Dominance Center at...

Swamp Fox maintenance hosts Bulgarian air force officers
March 18, 2022 — MCENTIRE JOINT NATIONAL GUARD BASE, S.C. – Six Bulgarian air force maintenance officers spent two days with the 169th Maintenance Group discussing maintenance best practices as a part of a subject...

Thirty years, 10 Airmen, one base
February 23, 2022 — MCENTIRE JOINT NATIONAL GUARD BASE, S.C. – In April, the South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing sent more than 300 Airmen on a three-month deployment to Prince Sultan Air Base (PSAB),...

Swamp Foxes end expeditionary force rotation in Saudi Arabia
July 19, 2021 — MCENTIRE JOINT NATIONAL GUARD BASE, S.C. – Approximately 300 Airmen and a contingent of F-16CJ Fighting Falcon aircraft from the South Carolina Air National Guard's 169th Fighter Wing ended a...

SCNG helps provide free medical care in Midwest training
June 22, 2021 — SIKESTON, Mo. – More than 40 Airmen from the South Carolina Air National Guard traveled to the Midwest to help provide free medical and food services to hundreds of people in underserved...

South Carolina Air National Guard turns 74
December 9, 2020 — EASTOVER, S.C. – Happy birthday Swamp Fox! Seventy-four years ago, Harry S. Truman was president and Strom Thurmond had just been elected governor of South Carolina when the South Carolina Air...

Cargo aircraft turned rescue platform for astronaut recovery
November 20, 2020 — JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii – It’s Nov. 13, two days before a historic rocket launch, and a helicopter pilot approaches a cargo jet on a clear morning at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. He...

Resilience is key for new psychological health director
June 30, 2020 — MCENTIRE JOINT NATIONAL GUARD BASE, S.C. – During his deployment to Turkey, Rico Brown witnessed a mental health technician juggling multiple social service jobs for hundreds of Soldiers. “I saw the...

Hawaii Guard Supports Tropical Cyclone Lala Response

South Carolina Guard Enhances Readiness With Advanced HH-60M Black Hawk

Army National Guard Fast-Tracks Resilient Microgrids with $14.7M APFIT Award

Ohio Guard Boosts Medical Skills While Providing No-Cost Care

Idaho Guard Strengthens Engineering Skills in Canada