Category: Pre-Blast

Dawn Patrol On the Rise

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When: 0615 Tuesdays and Thursdays

Site Q: Double D and Jekyll

Where: Tuesdays: Veteran Park; Thursdays: Kingsley Amphitheater

Slack channel: #ao-dawn-patrol

The Thang:

One of the opportunities we are afforded as leaders is to step up and lean in when there is a vacuum, or an opportunity presents itself.  We have identified a need for a later posting time.  You name the reason: fartsack, Kotter, work from home, kids schedules, etc. For going on 12 years, The Fort has been Open to All Men (willing to workout at 0515).  We’re expanding the access in 2024!

We now have 2x per week 0615 workouts.

Tuesdays: Fort Mill Veterans Park: Run or Ruck

Thursdays: Kingsley Amphitheater: Bootcamp

If you feel the 0615 time will work for you, we look forward to seeing you in the Gloom.

Also- this is a great opportunity for a double down!

Aye!

Double D & Jekyll

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Q vs Q 2024

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Q versus Q is back for 24! This year we’re going to mix it up and it’s going to be SLT versus SLT. Each nantan has selected three other SLT members to represent their region with them. YHC will draw names for the matchups of the teams and the two nantans will face off on the last week of March. I’m excited to see how this different dynamic plays out and allows us to interact with some of the leadership from the other regions. The format will run the same as the previous years.

Each week there will be two Q’s, one from The Fort and one from Rock Hill. Each Q will have a total of 20 minutes broken up into two 10 minute blocks. YHC will lead the warm up in facilitate the crossover.

The PAX will judge each Q on three categories:
Difficulty
Creativity
Usage of the AO

The total score from all categories will determine the winner each week.
The 5th week will be the finals where we will have four Q’s, each with a 10 minute block of time. The winner of that week will be crowned the champion.

Q versus Q has been a stellar way to mix with the different regions, meet new people, and receive a thorough beat down. I hope that you will plan to join us for some or all of the weeks!

Feb 28th : Preview Week
March (weeks 1-4 on Wednesday’s)
April 3rd: Finals

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2024 Shield Lock Service Month

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All of January 2024 The Fort is be holding a Shield Lock Service Challenge Competition!

It’s time to take a long hard look in the mirror and ask yourself, is my Shield Lock strong enough to prevail as champions of the 2024 prestigious F3 shield!!!

We will be holding the following 3rd F Service Events:

  1. Bethel Men’s Shelter 1/4
  2. Trash Pickup TBD
  3. Blood Drive 1/18
  4. Fort Mill Care Center – TBD

The point based competition will be as follows:

  • 10 points rewarded for the above service events per shield lock.
  • 5 point for any other volunteer opportunity. This is where you can get creative. Could be anything from helping an old lady across the street to getting your neighbor’s cat out of a tree
  • 3 points for every $10 donated to the Dam to Dam fund raising.
  • 2 points for attending a Bible Study (The Testament, McGospel) / Hanging With Stang

In order to get credit for the event, you have to take a picture together with your shield lock at the event or the receipt of the transaction and post it to the #2024-shield-lock-service-challenge slack channel.

The Shield Lock with the most points at the close of 1/31/2024 will win the prize of the 2024 Shield Lock Service Champion Shield.Good Luck and God Speed!!

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Pre-Convergence Convergence

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Attention Pax!!!

The Wednesday AO Crew is getting together for an hour long coupon inspired boot camp convergence. That’s right! A midweek convergence and it’s NOT a holiday. This will be the hardest thing you’ll do that week.

Don’t worry runners, you’ll have your own thing.

3 Q’s, 20 minutes each, lots of fun (or pain).

Mark your calendars for December 20 at WEP with a start time of 0500. Santa will not disappoint.

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Pre-Convergence Convergence

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Attention Pax!!!

The Wednesday AO Crew is getting together for an hour long coupon inspired boot camp convergence. That’s right! A midweek convergence and it’s NOT a holiday. This will be the hardest thing you’ll do that week.

Don’t worry runners, you’ll have your own thing.

3 Q’s, 20 minutes each, lots of fun (or pain).

Mark your calendars for December 20 at WEP with a start time of 0500. Santa will not disappoint.

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Marriage Mondays – it’s not Festivus

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Come join other PAX of The Fort to discuss marriage. This isn’t a time for the airing of grievances nor a counseling session, but instead just a chance to share, learn and grow.

Time is 06:15 after workouts at The Fort’s favorite weekday spot, the fire pit at Kingsley, or Panera’s patio if it’s too cold.

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Winter is Coming…CSAUP 2023

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IMPORTANT MESSAGE INCOMING……………… This holiday season, you may be indulging in a lot of cookies, pies, candy, and other calorie rich treats which is totally expected. That said, you may be looking and needing an opportunity to burn those calories in a way that’ll justify all of those cookies.

Well men…YOU ARE IN LUCK because on 12/16…that’s 12/16 we will be hosting a Winter CSAUP that will guarantee to burn some of those empty calories!

WHERE is this amazing opportunity? Why Tega Cay Elementary School of course. Please come ready to compete and push yourself in the winter CSAUP that will leave you sore but thankful!

HOW will I be able to burn these calories? Get your team of 4 for a competition that will push you physically and mentally (because there will be math).

WHAT are the Details I need to know?

Cliff Notes version: 4 man teams 12 stations of pain 2 hours AMRAMP (that’s right this will only be 2 hours of your day with maybe some coffee and cookies afterwards…maybe…)

Each team will compete against the other to see which team can get the most Points/Reps in the time allotted. (1 rep = 1 point)

The prize…..well that’s TBD but it’ll mostly be bragging rights.

WHY are we even doing this?????????? Well because we GET TO GUYS…..we GET TO!!!!!

More details to come in the next few weeks. Signup Genius link will be coming. Hope to you see you there!

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3S2T Adventure Race preblast

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Looking to gauge interest for 2024
Adventure race from TheFort to Rock Hill and back. Team event.
Multiple methods of movement {ruck, run, ride, row} There will be multiple competitions during event and it always pays to be a winner.
“Competition” division & a “fun run” division will allow something for everyone.
No medal, No patch, we’re playing for RESPECT.

If you are interested let’s chat.
Olaf

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Shanking With Stang

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Fellas I have been slack lately and am late getting this out. We are having our annual Dam To Dam Shanking With Stang golf tournament in a month and a half. Here’s the details I have for now. Cornerstone has been working very hard at getting a flyer together to give to businesses for sponsorships and to others you know who would like to play.
• Tega Cay Golf Course

• Friday December 8th 2023

• Range Opens At 7:30. Range balls included. 9:00 AM Shotgun Start Captains Choice format

• $100 per player/$400 team

if anyone has any questions or interest in helping out please reach out to me.  My number is +18032426670.
This is open to anybody not just your fellow Pax. More details coming out soon.

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Haunted Ruck for a good cause

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🎃 Haunted Ruck II 🎃 date has been setup for Wednesday October 25th at 6:30pm;  this year I teamed up with Skeletons for St Jude to help alleviate high costs of treatments for families that are carrying the burden of pediatric cancer and the expenses.
We’ll meet at Model A at 6:30pm and promptly launch, ruck to my house and back, roughly 4 miles total. Expect 1:15 minutes or so… M’s 💃, 2.0’s 🧛‍♂️ and 4.0’s 🐕‍🦺 are welcome. We’ll mingle back at Model A for refreshments… YES, there’s a patch 👻 (Bonus points for wearing a costume 🦹‍♂️)

Come ruck/walk for a great cause.

Hope to see you there

TINSEL 🎄

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