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TODAYLego Club at the Library2-3:30 p.m. Thomas Lee Hall Library.Test your Lego brick building skills at the library. We have the Lego bricks, you bring the creativity. This is a free event. For more information, contact 751-5589.

FRIDAY2-39 Marksmanship Competition9 a.m. Aachen Range. The 2nd Battalion, 39th Infantry Regiment will hold a marksmanship competition to sharpen staff and cadre weapons skills. For more information contact Chaplain (Capt.) Anthony Keim at [email protected].

SATURDAYFight Night Extravaganza5:30 p.m. Solomon Center. Plus live music from Soulution. For more info contact Jeff Pollard at 751-4526.

Matinee Movie at the Library1-3:30 p.m. Thomas Lee Hall Library. Come to the library and watch Dorothy and her friends make their way to the Land of Oz in “The Wizard of Oz.” Feel free to sing along to, “Over the Rainbow,” and more. All ages are welcome to attend this Family friendly Saturday matinee movie. This is a free event. For more information, contact 751-5589.

TUESDAYRelationships & Finances Workshop11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m., 9810 Lee Road, Rm. 166. The workshop will teach effective communication strategies and address common money issues in relationships. Learn to set SMART goals as a couple that can lead to wealth building and an overall stronger relationship. Call 751-5256 to RSVP.

Scholarship Seminar forMilitary Family Members9-10:30 a.m. 9810 Lee Rd, Rm. 166. This seminar will help educate military spouses and parents of military teens on the various military and civilian scholarships that are available. Sponsored by, ACS Employment Readiness and USC TRIO. RSVP is requested two business days before the workshop date. Call 751-9460 or751-5456.

WEDNESDAYAsh Wednesday ServicesCatholic: 11:45 a.m. and 6 p.m. at Main Post Chapel, 4580 Scales Avenue, 751-6681.Anglican: Noon at Lightning Chapel

(formerly Bayonet Chapel), 9476 Kemper Street, 751-4101.

FEB. 22Gaming at the Library2-3:30 p.m. Thomas Lee Hall Library.Show us your gaming skills on an Xbox or PS4 to try your hand at coding with Dot and Dash, here at the library. This event is free and for ages 8- 12. For more information, contact 751-5589.

MARCH 8Lego Club at the Library2-3:30 p.m. Thomas Lee Hall Library.Test your Lego brick building skills at the library. We have the Lego bricks, you bring the creativity. This is a free event. For more information, contact 751-5589.

MARCH 22Gaming at the Library2-3:30 p.m. Thomas Less Hall Library.Show us your gaming skills on an Xbox or PS4 to try your hand at coding with Dot and Dash, here at the library. This event is free and for ages 8-12. For more information, contact 751-5589.

APRIL 12Lego Club at the Library2-3:30 p.m. Thomas Less Hall Library.Test your Lego brick building skills at the library. We have the Lego bricks, you bring the creativity. This is a free event. For more information, contact 751-5589.

APRIL 26Gaming at the Library2-3:30 p.m. Thomas Less Hall Library. Show us your gaming skills on an Xbox or PS4 to try your hand at coding with Dot and Dash. This event is free and for ages 8- 12. For more information, contact 751-5589.

MAY 10Lego Club at the Library2-3:30 p.m. Thomas Less Hall Library.Test your Lego brick building skills at the library. The library has the Lego bricks, you bring the creativity. This is a free event. For more information, contact 751-5589.

MAY 24Gaming at the Library2-3:30 p.m. Thomas Less Hall Library.Show us your gaming skills on an Xbox or PS4 to try your hand at coding with Dot and Dash, here at the library. This event is free and for ages 8- 12. For more information, contact 751-5589.

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ON THE COVERTwenty Fort Jackson Soldiers are partici-pating in a combat-

ives training and certification course

at Vanguard Gym. The goal is to certify these NCOs, so that

they can return to their companies and pass along the skills

they’ve learned.

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By LATRICE LANGSTONFort Jackson Leader

The National Prayer Breakfast held at the NCO Club on Feb. 1, served as common ground for members of the Fort Jackson community to practice universal harmony of diverse beliefs.

Prayer time lead by chaplains of various beliefs invited attend-ees to pray in their tradition as the chaplains prayed according to theirs.

Lt. Cmdr. Leroy C. Young, Naval Chaplaincy School and Center, spoke on gratitude and prayed for wisdom in the prayer for the nation “We are grateful for those who have served you faithfully during the brief two hundred and forty one years of our country’s existence as well as those who have given their lives defending the great principals upon which our great country was founded,” he said. “In days ahead give us the wisdom to work with our international neighbors in pursuit of security and peace so that all people may know justice, love, mercy and walk hum-bly with you.”

Chaplain (Maj.) Douglas W. Weaver, USACHCS, lead the �� ! �� '�� 1��'�� " ��#�� whose mission is to train leaders and petitioned for continued restoration of precious resources.

“We honor the commitment of all of our Cadre here at Fort 0� 1��!� �� '�� ;��service and dedication that it requires to train future warriors and '�� 1#�� #� � �� !� �� " �� 1�� ensure our nations freedom,” Weaver said.

“We pray that you will enable them with boundless energy and grant them wisdom and discernment in their endeavors,” he said. “We ask that you will also bless them with peace and safety.”

Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Abdullah A. Hulwe 193rd Infantry Bri-gade, Islamic chaplain, opened the Prayer for our Families with a reading from the Quran, beseeching all the best to families.

“To bestow your blessings upon our Families so that they be-come blessings for others; to have the best family affair, the best prayers, the best of success, the best of knowledge and the best of deed and most of all the best of life. Amen.”

Chaplain (Col.) Milton Johnson’s introduction of Rev. Ken-neth Copeland, he recalled waking up to watch Rev. Copeland on television.

“I’ve always been struck by and moved by his teaching on the privilege of prayer; it’s a privilege to address the almighty and when we address the almighty there is power in prayer,” he said.

See PRAYER: Page 19

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‘Privilege of prayer’Guests speak of the power of faith at National Prayer Breakfast

Chaplain (Col.) David J. Giammona, IMCOM chaplain left, and Chaplain (Col.) Milton Johnson present Rev. Kenneth Copeland with tokens of appreciation on behalf of the Installation Management Command during the post’s National Prayer Breakfst event Feb. 1 at the NCO Club.

Photo by LATRICE LANGSTON

NEWS

By STAFF SGT. JERRY BOFFEN108th Public Affairs Detachment

Competitors, mentors, support staff and other Soldiers from throughout South Caro-lina came together Jan. 27-31 on Fort Jack-son and McCrady Training Center to vie for the title of South Carolina Army National Guard Best Warrior. Also present and tak-ing part in the competition’s events were four members of the German Armed Forces Command, based out of Reston, Virginia.

The format for this year’s competition '�� $�� '��#� �!�� !��"�� of a variety of mental and physical tests, aimed at pushing Soldiers to their limits. Among these were written exams and board interviews, the Army Physical Fitness Test,

�� 1�� 2-�!��2+� ��A��-" �� navigation courses and Army Warrior Tasks.

This year’s competition, however, fea-tured a couple of things that have not his-torically been a part of the South Carolina National Guard Best Warrior competition. The competition is typically overseen by the state command sergeant major, Command Sgt. Maj. Russ Vickery, who said he is not content to let the competition grow stagnant.

“When I took this over a few years ago,” Vickery said, “I made it a goal of mine to make sure that this competition got better and better each year. We owe it to the Soldiers to ! �� '�� A�� !��-tion.”

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ally been in the past is the use of various training sites at Fort Jackson, in particular the base’s Fit-to-Win course, which features 20 obstacles laid out over more than 800 meters of wooded terrain.

Vickery said the use of Fort Jackson has not always been an option for these competi-tions.

“Most people don’t see the difference be-tween us, the National Guard, and the active duty guys,” he said. “They just see us and assume that we would be on Fort Jackson, but at the end of the day it is an Army base. It’s not just open to anybody but through years of building relationships with Fort Jackson, we’ve been able to use their train-ing sites.”

See WARRIOR: Page 17

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U.S. Army National Guard Spc. Jonathon Peterson, Infantry, 118th Bravo Company, Gaffney Armory, Spartanburg, S.C., checks the seal of his protective mask during the 2018 Best Warrior Competition Jan 29. at McCrady Training Center in Eastover, S.C.. During the 2018 BWC, Soldiers are tested on a wide variety of skills, including land naviga-tion, physical fitness, weapon marksmanship and Army knowledge.

Photo by AIRMAN 1ST CLASS GRACIE I. LEE

National Guard Soldiers compete to be South Carolina’s best warrior

February 8, 2018 The Fort Jackson Leader

Left, a trainee goes through the grenade assault course at Fort Jackson in 2017. This photo by Robert Timmons took first place in the general news photo category. Right, 1st Lt. Kendall Harris, below, and his coach, Staff Sgt. April More-land, prepare for competition in last year’s All Army national tournament. This photo by Wallace McBride received third place in the personality photograph or portrait category. Below, McBride’s page design was recognized in three catego-ries: first place in the feature page design portfolio, single feature page design and third place for photo page design.

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Leader Staff reports

Staff members of the Fort Jackson Leader were recognized Monday by the South Carolina Press Association for being the tops in their re-spective divisions in the organization’s annual press awards.

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NASA’s Who? What? Where? When? & How?

On Monday, all of North America will be treated to an eclipse of the sun. Anyone within the path of totality can see one of nature’s most awe-inspiring sights – a total solar eclipse. This path, where the moon completely covers the sun and the sun’s tenuous atmosphere – the corona – can be seen, will stretch from Lincoln Beach, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina. Observ-ers outside this path will still see a partial solar eclipse where the moon covers part of the sun’s disk.

What is It?This celestial event is a solar eclipse in which the

moon passes between the sun and Earth and blocks all or part of the sun for up to about three hours, from beginning to end, as viewed from a given location. For this eclipse, the longest period when the moon com-pletely blocks the sun from any given location along the path will be about two minutes and 40 seconds. The last time the contiguous U.S. saw a total eclipse was in 1979.

Who Can See It?Lots of people! Everyone in the contiguous United

States, in fact, everyone in North America plus parts of South America, Africa, and Europe will see at least a partial solar eclipse, while the thin path of totality will pass through portions of 14 states.

Where Can You See It?You can see a partial eclipse, where the moon cov-

ers only a part of the sun, anywhere in North America. To see a total eclipse, where the moon fully covers the sun for a short few minutes, you must be in the path of totality. The path of totality is a relatively thin ribbon, around 70 miles wide, that will cross the U.S. from "��J��$��K��Beach, Oregon at 9:05 a.m. PDT. Totality begins there at 10:16 a.m. PDT. Over the next hour and a half, it will cross through Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and North and South Carolina.

When Can You See It?Times for partial and total phases of the eclipse vary

depending on your location. In Columbia, the eclipse begins at 1:13 p.m. Totality begins at 2:42 p.m., and will last a little more than two minutes. The eclipse comes to an end at 4:06 p.m.

By MARK MANICONEFort Jackson Leader

“The Great American Eclipse” will reach South Carolina around 2 p.m. Monday. And while civilians and Soldiers alike will be tempted to look up at the sky, it’s important to know and have the equipment necessary to do so.

The only point during a solar eclipse when it is safe to stare directly at the sun is during the total-ity phase, when the moon completely blocks out the sun. This phase of the eclipse will occur at 2:41 p.m. and last for only two minutes and 30 seconds. Once the sun starts to glare on the right side of the moon, it’s time to look away.

Now, in order to view the sun during the begin-ning and ending phases of the eclipse, one must wear

number 14 welder’s glass or, for those non-welders, �1�� "�� !��'��

The City of Columbia is sponsoring 100,000 free eclipse glasses at events throughout the city. This weekend, the City of Columbia will host a multi-tude of events for the expected one million tourists that will visit the state. At certain events, the eclipse glasses will be given out. And if you can’t get some for free, there are shops available that will sell them to you.

Family and Morale Wellness Recreation will also have eclipse glasses available. Also, MEDDAC will outline the medical consequences of unprotected viewing and the damage it can have on people’s eyes. These details are on pages 15 and 16 of this issue.

For those Family members and Soldiers who

might venture off post for eclipse related activities, South Carolina is urging people to be mindful of in- �� #" � �� !�� ;� �� with it.

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No — it’s a total solar eclipse

Members of the South Carolina National Guard show off their solar eclipse safety glasses. The glasses were distributed by the South Carolina National Guard Safety Office in preparation for the solar eclipse that will occur Monday.

Photo by SPC. CHELSEA BAKER

Solar Eclipse FAQ

From there the lunar shadow leaves the United States at 4:09 p.m. Its longest dura-tion will be near Carbondale, Illinois, where the sun will be completely covered for two minutes and 40 seconds.

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sun without appropriate protection except

during totality. That could severely hurt your eyes. However, there are many ways to safely view an eclipse of the sun includ-ing direct viewing – which requires some �� $�� -ing where you project an image of the sun onto a screen. Both methods should pro-duce clear images of the partial phase of an eclipse.

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Explosive maneuvers:Soldiers train with improved grenade launchers

By ROBERT TIMMONS

Fort Jackson Leader

Soldiers on Fort Jackson began training with a new weapons system that instructors said the troops love shooting because it can launch grenades while at-�� $��" ��!��

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M320A1� Caliber - 40 mm.

� Weight – 5 lbs., 10.92 lbs. attached to an M4 carbine

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A Soldier with 193rd Infantry Brigade fires a M320 grenade launcher during familiarization training for the new weapons system Jan. 10 at the Bastogne

range. The M320 is replacing the M203 grenade launcher in the Army’s arsenal.

Photo by ROBERT TIMMONS

BY THE NUMBERS

See M320: Page 20

A lot of the Soldiers that I ask say they prefer to fire (the M20A1). This one is easier to fire even in the

stand alone mode.

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The cover for ‘Yep ... I Wrote About That,’ the first collection of poetry by former Fort Jackson drill sergeant Tony Pichoff, aka Tony Garrison.

Command Sgt. Maj. Edward Mitchell, senior enlisted leader for the Center of Initial Military Training, enjoys a meal with Command Sgt. Maj. Lamont Christian, Fort Jackson’s post command sergeant major, and other sergeants major during his trip to Fort Jackson last week. Mitchell assumed responsibility for CIMT from Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Gragg in a ceremony Oct. 20.

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Tataw named Youth of the Year for second timeSpecial to the Leader

Winnie Tataw was named the 2017 Youth of the Year in a ceremony on post Jan. 27.

This is Tataw’s second time being the Fort Jackson Youth of the Year having won the honor in 2015.

The Boys and Girls Club Youth of the Year program is a premier recognition program that celebrates the ex-traordinary achievements of club members. Each month a youth is chosen by club staff who embodies the values of leadership, service, academic excellence and healthy life-styles. These youth then have the opportunity to compete at the local, state, and national levels.

Tataw, who has been attending BGCA programs since age 6, said she is very excited and hopes to win at the state level and represent Fort Jackson well.

The Youth of the Year ceremony, was attended by the Youth of the Month winners and their families, as well as Child Youth Services staff.

Brooks Harper, a premier college and career readiness and soft skills speaker, spoke at the event and reminded the youth of the importance of “the conversation you have with yourself, about yourself, when you’re by yourself.”

The Middle School and Teen Center staff looks for-ward to guiding Winnie through the continued Youth of the Year competitions and her future success.

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Rose Ann Turner, interim director of the Directorate of Family, Morale, Welfare and Recreation, and Com-mand Sgt. Maj. John Drawbond, Garrison senior enlisted leader, stand with Winnie Tataw after she was named Youth of the Year for the second time.

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ADDRESSES,PHONE NUMBERS

� Anderson Street Chapel, 2335

Anderson St., 751-7032

� Lightning Chapel, 9476 Kemper

St., 751-4101/4542

� Chaplain Family Life Center, Bldg

5460, 751-4961

� Daniel Circle Chapel, 3359 Daniel

Circle, 751-1297/4478

� Education Center, 4581 Scales

Ave., 751-5341

� Fort Jackson Garrison Chaplain and Religious Support Office, 4356

Hardee St., 751-3121/6318

� McCrady Chapel, 3820 McCrady

Road at McCrady Training Center,

751-7324

� Magruder Chapel, 4360 Magruder

Ave., 751-3883

� Main Post Chapel, 4580 Scales

Ave., 751-6469/6681

� Warrior Chapel (120th Adjutant General Battalion), 1895 Washington

St., 751-5086/7427

CATHOLICSunday� 7:30 a.m., Confessions, Solomon Center� 8 a.m., IET Mass, Solomon Center� 9:30 a.m., CCD, Education Center� 9:30 a.m., Mass, Main Post Chapel� 10:30 a.m., Reconciliation (after Mass or by appointment), Main Post Chapel

Monday through Thursday, First Friday11:30 a.m., Mass, Main Post Chapel

CHURCH OF CHRISTSunday10:30 a.m., Worship Service, Magruder Chapel

EASTERN ORTHODOXSunday9 a.m., Worship and Liturgy, Hospital Chapel

JEWISHSunday� 9:15 a.m., Worship, Anderson Street Chapel� 10:15 a.m., Fellowship, Anderson Street Chapel

LATTER-DAY SAINTS

Sunday10:30 a.m., Worship Service, Anderson Street Chapel

ISLAMICFriday12:45 p.m., Jumah Services, Main Post Chapel

Sunday8 a.m., Islamic studies, Main Post Chapel

PAGANSunday11 a.m., Pagan Circle Sacred Well Congregation worship and study, Magruder Chapel

HISPANIC PROTESTANTSunday9 a.m., Worship Service, Magruder Chapel

PROTESTANTSunday� 8 a.m., Worship Service, Main Post Chapel� 8:30 a.m., Anglican/Liturgical, Lightning Chapel� 9 a.m., Service, McCrady Chapel (SCARNG), McCrady Chapel

� 9:15 a.m., Adult Bible Study, Main Post Chapel� 9:30 a.m., Sunday School, Main Post Chapel� 10 a.m., Gospel Worship Service, Daniel Circle Chapel� 11 a.m., Service, Main Post Chapel� 11 a.m., Chapel Next, Lightning Chapel� 5 p.m., Aspire! Protestant Youth, Chaplain Family Life Center

Monday� 7 p.m., Protestant Women of the Chapel Woman’s Bible Study, Main Post Chapel

� 7 p.m., Protestant Men of the Chapel, Bible Study, Chaplain Family Life Center

Tuesday� 9 a.m., Protestant Women of the Chapel, Main Post Chapel

Wednesday� 12 p.m., Protestant Bible Study, SSI Library� 7 p.m., Gospel Bible Study, Daniel Circle chapel

Thursday� 11:45 a.m., Fresh Encounter Bible Study, Chaplain Family Life Center

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From staff reports

On May 9, June 10 and Aug. 8- 9 of 1942, four men from different religious backgrounds entered the chaplaincy corps and began their � �� (��!��"�� '�� $� � �� "�� #�� -vice.

On Feb. 2, the U.S. Army Chaplain Center and School held the Four Chaplains 75th Re-membrance Ceremony.

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to the people around them, freely giving their life vests to save the lives of others.

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A Four Chaplains 75th anniversary remembrance ceremony was held Feb. 2 at the U.S. Army Chaplain Center and School. From left, Chaplain (Maj.) John Ijeoma, stands behind the candle in remembrance of Chaplain John P. Washington, Chaplain (Maj.) Scott Koeman, stands behind the candle in remembrance of Chaplain Clark V. Poling, Chaplain (Capt.) Joseph Messinger, stands behind the candle in remembrance of Chaplain Alexander D. Goode, and Chaplain (Capt.) Andrew Dressler, stands behind the candle in remembrance of Chaplain George L. Fox.

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Heading into the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea, the U.S. bobsled team members don’t plan to take anything for granted. The U.S. men know one slip-up could send any four-man or two-man �A��$��"��

Thankfully, however, three of four Army $�$�� A��"��#� � ��boast prior Olympic experience, which should boost their chances of medal-winning perfor-mances during the games.

Joining the U.S. bobsled Olympic team are Sgt. Nick Cunningham, Sgt. Justin Olsen and Maj. Chris Fogt, each of whom competed and medaled in previous Olympic Games, while Sgt. 1st Class Nate Weber will make his Olympic debut.

Cunningham, Olsen and Fogt are members of the Army’s World Class Athlete program and train full time for their sport. Weber, who is not in the WCAP, splits his time between training with the bobsled team at their home base in Lake Placid, and training with his Army unit for combat operations.

Despite their familiarity with the Games,

these WCAP members know how fast fortune can change. Just ask Fogt.

Considered one of the fastest athletes in the men’s program, Fogt helped put his team in medal contention after placing in the top six during competition at the 2010 Vancou-ver games. However, a fall on the track sent Fogt’s squad out of medal contention. Fogt rebounded to win bronze in the 2014 Sochi E��2�� %�� #" � ��-tially left the bobsled program after the 2014 games, but after learning his pending deploy-ment was cancelled, he rejoined the squad shortly after.

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Fort Jackson working to expandcombatives skills across the installation

By WALLACE MCBRIDEFort Jackson Leader

When it comes to combatives, Fort Jackson is creating its own subject matter experts.

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Sgt. Edwin Velazquez, Headquarters and Headquarters Bat-talion, right, demonstrates a throw Feb. 6 at Vanguard Gym during an installation combatives training and certification course.

Twenty Fort Jackson Soldiers are participating in a level 2 combatives training and certification course at Vanguard Gym. The goal is to certify these NCOs, so that they can return to their companies and pass along the skills they’ve learned.

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Saluting this BCT cycle’s honoreesDRILL SERGEANTS OF THE CYCLE

Sgt. 1st ClassJonathanKloberdanz Alpha Company 3rd Battalion, 60th Infantry Regiment

SOLDIER LEADER OF THE CYCLEPfc. TyshawnRudolph

SOLDIER OF THE CYCLE Pfc. Dallas Reed

Staff Sgt.Laura ArandaBravo Company 3rd Battalion, 60th Infantry Regiment

SOLDIER LEADER OF THE CYCLE Pfc. Danny Harris

SOLDIER OF THE CYCLE Pvt. Jack Salazar

KLOBERDANZ ARANDA

Sgt. 1st ClassOscar GaldamezCharlie Company 3rd Battalion, 60th Infantry Regiment

SOLDIER LEADER OF THE CYCLE Pfc. David Hulbert

SOLDIER OF THE CYCLE Pfc. Brenden Allen

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Staff Sgt.Echo FletcherDelta Company 3rd Battalion, 60th Infantry Regiment

SOLDIER LEADER OF THE CYCLE Spc. Clarissa Teague

SOLDIER OF THE CYCLE: Pvt. Joshua Pena

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Staff Sgt.Johnny HopeEcho Company 3rd Battalion, 60th Infantry Regiment

SOLDIER LEADER OF THE CYCLE Pvt. Joseph Bullen

SOLDIER OF THE CYCLE Pvt. Shane Marriot

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Stay away from people who are sick.Stay at home while you’re sick.Avoid close contact with others, such as hugging,

kissing or shaking hands while your sick.Move away from people before coughing or sneezing.Cough and sneeze into a tissue, and then throw it

away. Or cough and sneeze into your upper shirt sleeve. Either way, completely cover your mouth and nose.

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Thursday, Feb. 8Breakfast: Assorted cold cereal, bis-cuit, 100 percent juice cup/fruit cock-tail, assorted milk. Lunch entree: Sloppy joe. Sides: Seasoned spin-ach/seasoned corn, fruit cocktail/100 percent juice cup, assorted milk.

Friday, Feb. 9Breakfast: Brown sugar oatmeal, cin-namon applesauce/mandarin orang-es, assorted milk. Lunch entree: Cat-$�� $�� \�� mashed potatoes, cinnamon apple-sauce/mandarin oranges, assorted milk.

Monday, Feb. 12Breakfast: Donut holes, pineapple/or-ange wedges, assorted milk.Lunch entree: Grilled cheese sand-wich. Sides: French fries/seasoned Brussels sprouts, pineapple chunks/orange wedges, assorted milk.

Tuesday, Feb. 13�� "�]� �� 100 percent juice cup/pineapple chunk, assorted milk. Lunch entree: Tacos with cheese, lettuce, tomato, Spanish rice. Sides: Refried beans/Mexican corn, applesauce/100 per-cent juice cup, assorted milk.

Wednesday, Feb. 14Breakfast: Scrambled eggs with cheese, biscuit with jelly, manda-rin oranges/apple wedges, assorted milk. Lunch entree: Fish sticks. Sides: Baby carrots with dip, green peaks, mandarin oranges, apple wedges, as-sorted milk.

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“It is my privilege to have you in our community, it is an honor to welcome you to our installation, I have no doubt in my mind that God is going to use you to speak to us and he is going to inspire you as he inspires people every day,” Johnson said. “When the Lord speaks, may God bless you ��1�� !��1�� microphone and may the almighty use you as an instrument to speak to all of us today.”

“I can hardly wait to see what I’ve got to ��D��(�!�� "��with laughter. Copeland delivered a message �� '��'��'�� #� ��C" ��hand testimonies” of really good friends who told of 91st Psalms victories.

3 �� $ ��1#�� the National Prayer Breakfast echoed the sig-��" �� #� ��'�� the Fort Jackson community. Beverly Sow-ell, a breakfast attendee felt the message de-livered was relevant to the audience.

“It was really good how Copeland, tai-lored his message to the soldiers to get them to understand that even when they are out in battle they still have the presence of the Lord with them and they should call on him even in battle, she said, “I liked that the Interna-tional Prayer is not about (how) you are en-couraged to pray according to your own be-liefs. I thought everything went really well a lot of people in attendance so I really thought it was a very good setting.”

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“I really believe that Dr. Copeland really spoke the heart of the community for the times that we’re in,” he said. “He was able to declare God’s word in this season and I be-lieve it will bring life, healing and will bring hope.”

“It was a community gathering; they not only invited members of Fort Jackson but the community as a whole,” Collins said. “I’m a community pastor and I really enjoyed both side.”

The National Prayer Breakfast an annual event held on Fort Jackson is open to all reli-gions, faiths and traditions.

Sherline Brown, breakfast attendee be-lieves the importance of the day hinges on the subject matter of the prayers sent forth.

“We must remember that the National Prayer Breakfast is not just an event but a day set aside that we come together regardless of our faith to pray for our Nation and govern-ment,” she said.

Sara Jones smiles as she is crowned Queen during her 100th birthday celebration held at the Joe E. Mann center Saturday. Jones was born Feb. 3, 1918 and continues to be wealth of knowledge to her family, friends and com-munity.

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