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| Fisher Accepts Command: Incoming commander Lt. Col. George L. Fisher (facing camera) accepts the 148th Forward Support Battalion’s guidon from Brig. Gen. Stewart Rodheaver. The battle hand off ceremony is one of the oldest continuous ceremonies in the Army. (Georgia National Guard photo by Officer Candidate Ike Umunnah) |
Public Affairs Office
FORSYTH, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2006 – Georgia Army National Guard Lt. Col. George Fisher assumed command of the 148th Forward Support Battalion from Army Guard Lt. Col. Jeffery Edge. The ceremony took place at the 148th’s Armory before a large audience of friends, family and fellow Guardsmen.
Fisher previously was logistics officer for Headquarters Company, 48th Brigade Combat Team in Macon. Edge, the out going commander, now takes on duties as the mobilization readiness officer at Joint Force Headquarters in Ellenwood near Atlanta.
“I’m quite honored that command [Brig. Gen. Stewart Rodeheaver, commander 48th BCT] has such confidence in me that it’s placed me in this position,” said Fisher after the ceremony. “I plan to take the 148th to new heights by leaving it better then I found it.”
One way he intends to do that, he said, is by reorganizing the battalion and adding four companies to the four it already has.
For Edge, leading the battalion was a great undertaking in his military career, and one he has never regretted, he said.
“The biggest, and greatest accomplishment this unit has had is its yearlong tour in Iraq,” Edge said. “I would like them to remember be as a commander that did everything he could for his troops.”
Fisher, a Macon resident, has been Georgia Guardsman since graduating high school in 1980. He received his commission in 1982 through the ROTC program at Macon’s Mercer University. Fisher holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from Madison University in Gulfport, Miss.
A graduate of the basic and advanced infantry courses, Fisher is also a graduate of Army Command and General Staff College.
His assignments over the past several years have either been with the 148th FSB; the Guard’s 1st Battalion, 121st Infantry; Georgia’s Joint Forces Headquarters and the 110th Corps Support Battalion in Columbus.
Among his awards are the National Defense Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Iraqi Campaign Medal, Overseas Service Ribbon and the Air Force Commendation Medal.
Fisher most recently spent a year in war-torn