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F3 The Fort – Adopt a Highway (#2)

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****March 5th 2022- 7:45am – 8:00am****

Men,

We have officially signed up for the Adopt-A-Highway Litter pick-up program.  Our adopted Highway is US21 from Peachstand south to Sutton Rd. (2 miles). We will have a sign installed to promote this section of the highway.  We are encouraged to complete 4 pick-ups a year (once a quarter).  All supplies will be provided.  All we need to do is show up.  The SC DOT will come out and pick up our bags along the route after completion.

**Our NEXT Clean-up date is tentatively scheduled for March 5th. (start time )  7:45 am – 8:00am**. There is no time expectation for participation.  Stay as long as needed or head out early.  Modify as needed. Plan for 2 hours if you complete the 1-mile loop.  We split up into two groups last time and met at the halfway point.

We will begin at the Peachstand (rear of the building) and coordinate.  I have 30 vests and all supplies.

Fogerty will be the main contact for this event over the next two years.

Here are some of the logistics:

• Make sure your group knows that in case of bad weather the cleanup will be postponed. Litter collection should never be done in the dark or in bad weather.
• Notify local news media who may have an interest in publicizing your group’s activities. • Remind your group of the appropriate clothing. Long pants and long-sleeved shirts and sturdy shoes help avoid scratches and irritation from poisonous plants. Light or brightly colored clothing will make them easily visible to passing traffic.
• Be sure you have all the materials and supplies you’ll need beforehand, including first aid kits.
• Check with members of your group to be aware of any allergies that might be important (such as bee-stings, etc).
• Work out a plan for what you will do in the event of an emergency. Find out what the quickest route to the hospital is.
• Park vehicles at both ends of the adopted section.

• Volunteers must be at least 13 years old to participate in Adopt-A-Highway cleanups. Children under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult on all Adopt-A-Highway cleanups.

The state does provide adopt-a-highway orange and blue bags.  Orange bags are for trash and blue bags are for recyclables if you want to recycle.  Your group is also provided with orange safety vests.   We do require four pickups every year, usually once every quarter.  All that is needed to be done after trash is picked up is to call or email me and I will send one of our crews to pick up the bags.

It is volunteers like you who are going to make a difference by speaking up and doing what they can to help their community.  Please let me know If you have any questions, I will be glad to assist you.

Thank you,

Sherry J. Johnson
Administrative Specialist/
Adopt-A-Highway Coordinator
SC Department of Transportation
803-327-6186 O I 803-327-6184 F
JohnsonSJ@scdot.org

District Four Maintenance
338 Robertson Road West
Rock Hill, SC 29730

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F3TheFort Holiday Drop-In

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The Forts annual holiday party will have a different feel this year.
With COVID still lingering we have decided to have a gathering but it will be a bit different.

We are encouraging The PAX to go to dinner with your M and either your Shieldlock, Whetstone, or small group of fellow PAX and their Ms. After dinner we will all gather for an hour or so of a social hour(s).
This will give our Ms the opportunity to meet the crazy fellas we spend the early mornings with but more importantly their M.

We are all fortunate to have this crazy group it is also just as important to try and let our Ms meet some other ladies in the community and possibly let them start great friendships as well.

Make it a day of F3. Start with the golf outing, go to dinner and then grab a couple beers, a bottle of J Lohr wine, a cocktail and let’s kick off the holiday season.

If COVID worries you or your M we will have an outdoor area to hang out at as well as indoor areas.

Where- Springfield Community Center- by the tennis courts/pool
420 Horton Grove, Fort Mill, SC 29715

Time- 7pm-9pmish

When- Dec 3rd, 2021

Contact- Backdraft with any concerns…

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F3 The Fort Anniversary Party

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Get ready to celebrate the Anniversary of The Fort. Location will be next to The Springfield neighborhood pool under the pavilion. but the date is set Sept. 17th, 2021. 1830-2130 or 630pm- 930pm for anyone that dosn’t know how to do military time. Cant wait to see you all. It will be the same as last year and bring your own dinner and drinks. We will have a few people speaking.

Look forward to seeing everyone.

location- Springfield Neighborhood Pavilion, next to pool

time- 630pm- 930pm

what to bring- whatever you want to eat and drink.

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3/4 mile tractor tire flip with rucks on

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Ruck Q #2 on heavy training week for Dirty Myrtle.

The plan was simple, try to get one mile of tire flipping and sand bag toss rotating between PAX… there was 3 of us so it made things much more interesting.

While PAX #1 flips the tire 5 times, the other two will toss the sandbags, we had a 40# and a 60#; about 8 minutes (1/8 of a mile) into it, I realized that we will never move fast enough to complete the 1 mile tire flip if we kept tossing the sandbags so we abandoned them and started a new rotation, one tire flip per PAX and move to the side, we started moving much faster… did I mention we had our rucks on? yeah, that made it a bit more complicated.

The synergy between the 3 of us was great, we pushed ourselves completely out of our comfort zones and kept hustling to meet our goal,  we had to pick up our sandbags on the way back to COT and tossed them along the tire flipping (add 1/8 of a mile of sandbag tossing)  we are only human and couldn’t reach the mile but this morning the accomplishment was great,  we reached 3/4 of a mile with one minute to spare, we did some LBC’s and were done for the day… legs were shivering, forearms pulsating, but we walked (or barely walked) better than when we got there at 0515.  BIG PROPS to Divac and IT for not giving up!!!

Prayers for balance with our families and our jobs.

Tinsel out… until my third Q of the week

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Q vs Q Week 1 – The JOC

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Backblast! Q vs Q Week 1
Date: 3/3/2021
AO: #3-w-the-joc
PAX: @River Rat @Fresh Prince @Bill Nye @Italian Job @JAG @Schrute Hardwood, Maximus, Esso, Ruby Slippers, Punch List, Tinsel, Harry Carry, Trucker, Fish Sticks
FNGs: 0
Q: @Bill Nye and Maximus
Count: 15
Name-O-Rama: https://youtu.be/KoBt9YnWNHc
Week 1 Update: https://youtu.be/jSu4BbrrMeMRound 1- Bill Nye:
The parking lot beside the AO is divided into 6 parts. The PAX ran to the bottom of the parking lot and did 10 burpees before bearcrawling up to the next level.
Each level repeated all previous excerices and then added a new exercise to the ladder.
10 burpees- 50 total
20 v ups- 60 total
30 merkins- 90 total
40 squats- 80 total
50 LBCs- 50 totalRound 1- Maximus:
Shoulder Smoker: Carolina Dry Docks, Bear Crawl, Wide Arm Merkins, Crawl Bear, Peter Parker, Bear Crawl, Diamond Merkins, Ski AbsRound 3- Bill Nye
I assumed that oxygen deprivation would be kicking in at this point so I made this part simple. 11s. Run up the hill for prison cell burpees, run back down the hill for Ripstick squats.
Prison cell burpee- Merikin, lift your left leg towards your chest, merkin, lift your right leg towards your chest, merkin, jump up, overhead clap. That’s one.
Ripstick squats- Assume the AL Gore position. Perform a calf raise, pausing at the top. That’s one.Round 2- Maximus:
Starting at point on the Criterium Track closest to the parking lot:
Sprint 1/4mi: Rabbits (first to finish the sprint) do Burpees until the six completes 5 Burpees
Sprint 1/4mi: Rabbits do Merkins until the six completes 10 Merkins
Sprint 1/4mi: Once we finished this sprint, we were running out of time so we made our way to C.O.T.NMM:
This morning I(Bill Nye) got to meet several new brothers and I also led half of a pretty good beat down. It was a pleasure to push and sweat with my brothers from both sides of the river. Also, Maximus is a beast and I am looking forward to working out with him again soon. Get After It men! (edited) 
YouTubeYouTube | Byron Nash
F3 The JOC – Q vs Q Week 1 – 3/3/2021 
YouTubeYouTube | Byron Nash
F3 Q vs Q update 3/3/2021 
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DRP @ The JOC

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Two showed for the main event this morning, which led to great conversation between River Rat and YHC.

Disclaimer was disclaimed and we went to work.

 

Warm Up

Mosey to “crit track” around the grounds.

Stop at each arrow and do 5 burpees (we did 5 arrows in total) to get the blood flowing.

 

Iteration 1 – Suicides

Move to RV Lot – White RV hookups are Markers

Round 1 – Suicides tapping RV hookups 2/4/6/8

3 rounds – 33/66/100% pace

 

Round 2 – Suicides w/exercises tapping RV hookups

4/8/12/16 reps of each as you go farther out

Merkins 

Squats 

CDD’s

Lunges

 

Iteration 2 – Bleachers

Mosey to Bleachers – 

Dips

Step Ups

Derkins

Box Jumps

10 reps then up and down bleachers twice between each movement (10 dips, 2 up/down, 10 Step Ups, 2 up/down, and so forth).

Repeat

 

Iteration 3 – Track Work

Lap around BMX track with 5 burpees at each corner 

 

Iteration 4 – Parking Lot Tiers

Mosey long ways across top tier, do 10 squats.

Run back on tier below, do 10 merkins.

 

Iteration 5 – Mary

Crunchy Frog x 10

Freddy Mercury’s x 10

V Ups x 10

American Hammer x 10

Completed 1.5 rounds of the above four movements prior to 0600 striking.

 

The Rock Announcements – 

Men’s Shelter Dinner needs Q’s first Tuesday of every month.

The Fort Announcements – 

Dam to Damn Bar, Yeti

 

Prayers/Praises

Overarching prayer request was for each of our M’s/2.0’s.

 

Atticus joined on the tail end after a long ruck to close us out at 3 PAX. As mentioned above, it was great conversation. By the time we were through, YHC had logged 4 miles. Thanks for the tap, River Rat.

 

Punch List out.

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The Sweati 2020

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The Sweati 2020-
79 HIM took to The Forts annual summer CSAUP event. It was 78 degrees when 24 Ruckers launched from The Coliseum at 0530. They had their disclaimer and direction to the first of the 3 pain stations. Just After at 0600 54 runners took to the route. They departed and ran about 2.5 miles and got to meet Bones at Golden Corral for the first pain station. He worked them over as they came in for about 10-15 minutes. Once he finished dishing the pain they took off to Pantheon only about 1.5 miles up the Road. Fishsticks was waiting for sprints and pain. He had the PAX attention for another 10-15 minutes. Once they left they brought the route back to YHC. While waiting for the PAX to return and doing burpees I decided that my other two Qs most likely put the PAX through so much I would give them a choice. Either 20 burpees at 5 light poles with bear crawls in-between or they could buyout of it for a $50. going to our brother Cash. Most wanted to take on both challenges. We wore black for Cash and am still amazed at the Photos coming in from across the Country showing support to this HIM. We love you Cash. Here is a link to the pay-pal account if you feel you would like to support.

paypal.me/f3thefort

Backdraft Out

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The Sweati

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The Sweati
8/15/2020

Want to Run or Ruck and Sweat? Join YHC for both. Let’s get out of your comfort zone.

Come out and enjoy 5.75 miles of running or rucking. Included with your ticket is 3 pain stations that will test out if you have been posting to workouts over the summer/ Covid pandemic. This has been and will continue to be the summer sweatdown.

Launch from Coliseum (1025 Dave Gibson Blvd) you will be told where to go next.

Ruck- depart 0530
Run- depart 0600

Water will be available at pain stations. Bring your own if you are against trash.

Coffee will be provided by The Fort. Donations to the fund are accepted.

Q Source will follow at this site. Please bring chair and Q Source manual (not required)
Q source will start shortly after PAX catch there breathe.

Fellowship, popsicles, and coffee to follow.

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Kenyan’s request

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7 PAX at the JOC. Having not Qed at this AO nor much experience with the PAX that posted here, YHC had a few different ideas to push the PAX present without leaving anyone behind. Thanks to JWOWW for crossing the bridge with me. Here’s what we did:

Short Mosey to the soccer field parking lot

Warm Up
Windmill
1 burpee
SSH
2 burpees
Some Yoga
3 burpees
Mountain Climber
4 burpees
Moroccan Night Club
5 burpees

Mosey towards the BMX track

PAX hold plank while each individual takes a turn running up the stairs and back down

Mosey towards the RV parking lot at the far edge there are 8 lights
Lunge walk to the end adding 1 merkin at each light (36 total merkins)
Bear crawl back adding 1 CDD at each light (36 total CDD)
Did some arm circles to loosen back up
(side note: this would be Shady-level “fun” one row in….where there are significantly more lights)

Mosey back towards the BMX track and found some wall

Peoples Chair while PAX went down the line with 5 burpees each
– Kenyan said “finally some leg work”
Balls to the wall
– 5 merkins in cadence
– 5 shoulder taps in cadence

To honor Kenyan’s request for leg work we moseyed to the parking lot entrance and did a set of 11s
1 lunge (each leg) at the bottom
run to the top
10 jump squats
continued until
10 lunges at the bottom
1 jump squat at the top

Got to COT with a min remaining. Because F3 is a group of leaders not a group with a leader, YHC nominated Cliffhanger to call an exercise. He called big boy situps till 0600

An honor to lead.

-Band Camp dismissed

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Preparedness- Are You Prepared?

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Attn #HIM of the The Fort and Lake Wylie,

Preparedness is discussed in Foundation Point F5 of the the Q- Source.  As Defined Preparedness is: Getting Ready for the Expected While being Ready for The Unexpected. This is an all encompassing need to us as men.  It is valid in all parts out our lives;  Father, husband, boss, team member, Site-Q, WO Q ect.

The purpose for this pre-blast is in regards to life saving measures that Pax can take in the event of an unexpected medical emergency at home, work, or at an AO.  We have talked about it in Site-Q Meetings and at the last Invergence.

Last week HomeBrew ,a Pax from Lake Wylie, who is near and dear to our hearts, had just this type of medical emergency come crashing down on him after his 2.0 suffered a Febrile Seizure and stopped breathing.  He had no training but HAD to ACT. So he mimicked what he had seen on TV and was able to revive her before EMS was able to arrive.  Good On Ya for maintaining a cool head and doing what needed to be done.  CPR and Faith in the Sky Q is what saved her life.  I have maintained CPR/AED/First Aid certification for 6-8 years now for work.  I feel better knowing that if I am put in that sort of situation I have at minimum the base knowledge to try and keep someone alive till EMS-Fire arrive on site to take over.

Here is what HomeBrew and I are proposing.  This will be a friendly competition between The Fort and Lake Wylie regions.  From 4-1 to 4-15 every PAX from either region that completes certification or re-certifies in CPR/ AED/First Aid he and I + the Nan’tan and 1st F Q will complete 5 burpees.   The region that draws the most new or recerts will pass that number on to the “Loser”, but honestly- Who really loses in this situation? IE The Fort get 30 pax LKW gets 20 pax = LKW will do 150 burpees. The Fort will do 100. As you all know, I HATE BURPEES, but have committed to drive action across the regions.

The Certification I have been using comes from NationalCPRFoundation.com.  It is Red Cross compliant and should take between 30 mins to 1 hour to complete.  It is free unless you decide to purchases the hard copy certificates.  We will require a screen shot/ picture Tweeted or slacked to both HomeBrew and myself of the completed training for a CPR/AED/First aid at the end.  It will be added to the spreadsheet we will use to document Pax completion. The certification is good for 2 years.

It is highly recommended that All Site Qs get on board with this effort, but all PAX can benefit from this training. What better way to show leadership than making sure the Pax that Post to your AO know you have that training and are ready to act in the even that someone goes down.

Please join us in this and lets Ensure we are Prepared for the unexpected. Stay tuned to TwEETAR for a message from Homebrew.

Thanks

Duck Dynasty  🦆👑and HomeBrew 🏠🍺

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