For more than a decade, various historians and writers have been at work on a comprehensive history of the South Carolina National Guard (SCARNG). As part of a mitigation measure related to several SCARNG armory facilities located throughout South Carolina, the South Carolina State Historic Preservation Office, SCARNG, and the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology (SCIAA) agreed to revise the existing, unfinished SCARNG history and add several chapters to bring this history forward through Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Eric was hired by SCIAA to complete both the revision of the existing chapters and authorship of the additional chapters. The project was completed in Fall 2013.