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Area training center a
hi-tech ‘Top Gun’
With the infusion of some
$13.4 million in new technology, unveiled during a special
cable-cutting ceremony Tuesday at the Georgia Air National
Guard’s Savannah Combat Readiness Training Center, those amber
radar images are a thing of the past.
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JSTARS trains with 961st AACS
The 16th Expeditionary Airborne Command and Control
Squadron from Robins Air Force Base, Ga., deployed to Kadena Air
Base for 30 days to train with the 961st Airborne Air Control
Squadron and participate in an operational readiness exercise on
the Korean Peninsula. Full Story
Guard, SDF learn dignitary protection techniques
National Guard Soldiers and State Defense Force personnel were taught the
finer points of protecting and escorting dignitaries in multiple
situations during a training course in mid-August at Naval Air
station-Atlanta.
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Georgia Soldiers assist with Democratic National Convention
Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del.,
and his wife Jill greet Army National Guard troops from Nebraska
and Georgia Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008 at Invesco Field in Denver.
The Guardsmen of the CERF were in Denver to provide medical and
rescue assistance to local and national authorities during the
convention. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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6th
Annual Top Gun motorcycle
ride
for children
The Georgia National Guard Family Support Foundation was selected as
the military support organization to receive funds from the 6th Annual
Top Gun Ride for Children sponsored by the Center for Children and
Young Adults in Marietta, Ga.
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Savannah Armed Forces Festival on River Street Benefits Ga NGF
Command Chief Master Sergeant Steve Thornton, 165th Airlift
Wing, presents a check for $4000 to Foundation Board Member
Frank Baker. These funds were the results of the Sixth Annual
Armed Forces Memorial Day Festival on River Street, put on by
the 165th Airlift Wing and the City of Savannah, on May 24-25,
2008.
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SETAF Chaplain takes the
message to the field
Colonel David Smith, the
SETAF chaplain, provides worship services for Soldiers from the
United States as well as the country of Georgia during field
exercises.
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Georgia Soldiers reach across continents to assist children’s
home
48th Infantry Brigade
Combat Team Soldiers and their Georgian Army counterparts
reached out to the local community at a local children’s home,
20 minutes west of Tbilisi, where the Soldiers united to improve
the lives of children who otherwise would have nothing
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Annual
enlisted conference leaves mark on Savannah, Guardsmen
With the opening of the 2008 Enlisted Association of the National
Guard of the United States conference in mid-August in this historic
city’s trade and convention center, officials take pride in noting this
as the largest conference the association has ever hosted.
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GWOT milestone reached
in aircraft named for 9/11
A unit deployed from the 116th Air Control Wing at Robins
Air Force Base, Ga. recently reached 40,000 flight hours in
support of the Global War on Terror fittingly in an aircraft
named for the attacks which began the war.
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FRG
Volunteers honored
at 2008 conference
Family Readiness Group volunteers
were honored for giving ‘the time of their lives’ at the 2008
FRG conference. The Crown Plaza Ravinia was an elegant
environment to educate volunteers and unit leadership on
programs, literature and resources for preparedness during the
two day event.
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Guard Aviation facility wins
HAAF Recycling award
Sergeant 1st Class Deidre Perry
accepts a check on behalf of the Army Aviation Support Facility
at Hunter Army Air Field in Savannah from Lt. Col. Vernon
Atkinson, HAAF commander. Perry wrote the winning essay on
recycling, and how AASF 3 participates in the Hunter Army
Airfield Recycling Program. The award was given after a thorough
inspection from Installation Recycling Program Directors.
A family welcomes home a
deployed 116th Air Control Wing member. The wing received the
2007 Outstanding Family Readiness and Support award for programs
aimed at supporting 116th families.
Combatives benefit Georgians preparing for combat
It has been said that the
best offense is a good defense - a theory that applies to
Brazilian Jujitsu, the youngest martial art form. The American
military has adopted this form of hand-to-hand combat. At the
very least basic hand-to-hand techniques – called ‘combatives’-
are taught to all Soldiers.
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Deployment
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Fourteen Air Guardsmen Return from Deployment to Iraq, Afghanistan
Fourteen members of the 224th Joint Communications Support Squadron (JCSS)
of the Georgia Air National Guard returned home to Brunswick, Ga., on
August 27, 2008 completing a 105-day deployment in support of OIF/OEF.
The team deployed with the 2nd Joint Communications Squadron (JCS) of
the Joint Communications Support Element (JCSE), MacDill AFB, Fla., to
locations in Qatar, Iraq and Afghanistan providing communications for
Combatant Commanders of the Joint Coalition Forces.
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Citizen Soldiers partner with British Territorial Army reservist in
Scotland
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 118th Field Artillery in Savannah
will train alongside the British Army’s 4th Battalion, the Yorkshire
Regiment, for two-weeks in Barry Buddon, Scotland. The mission is an
extension of the on-going reciprocal UK-US infantry training partnership.
Elements of the 4 Yorks Territorial Army, British Army National Guard
component, were hosted by the 48th IBCT during the multi-national,
multi-reserve force-in-readiness Exercise Patriot ’08 in July.
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Georgia Guard senior NCOs discuss role with Georgian
counterparts
United States and Georgian military senior enlisted leaders took
time from training during Immediate Response 2008 at Vaziani
Military Base in Tbilisi to discuss the role of the senior
non-commissioned officer and to understand their respective
military cultures.
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Georgia Guard trains
lifesavers in 'Georgia'
In the Georgia Army
National Guard training schedules are tight. The annual two-week
'horse-blanket', an age-old infantry term used for the unit’s
training schedule, turns into the proverbial coat-of-many-colors
as the required training elements are annotated and punctuated
in vivid and pronounced time sequences. There is no question
what has to be done when critical lifesaving certifications are
on the schedule in preparation for deployment.
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A look at what happened in September in Georgia National Guard history...
September 1950 – Members of the
121st Infantry honored their former commander, Brig. Gen. John W.
Barnett with a testimonial dinner. Presiding was Col. Roy W. Hogan,
current commander of the unit. Mrs. Barnett summed up the evening by
telling the assembled guests: “I pray God you may never have to go on
the battlefield again, but my prayers and best wishes go with you and
the 121st always.”
September 1953 – The Georgia Air Guard’s senior Air Instructor
Col. Philip A. Sykes, gave what one Georgia Guardsman magazine writer
called “a thought-provoking” speech to the annual meeting of the
National Guard Association of Georgia. Sykes’ address emphasized the
new importance the minute man. During his address, the Colonel
stressed that “The Air National Guard must be prepared to step between
an aggressor and the brightly-lighted cities of America, and do it on
the hour. To discharge this responsibility, each Air National Guard
unit must bring itself to the minute man standard, ready for instant,
effective counter-air action.”
September 1954 – Georgia Army Guardsmen moved into Eatonton and
began the task of piping water to the drought-stricken city’s
reservoir, which has been dangerously low during the summer. Some 29
Guardsmen of Atlanta’s 201st Ordnance Company were deployed and
quickly began laying 1300 feet of pipe between the reservoir and a
pond 2 miles away. Once a 1500 gallon per minute pump was installed,
normal water service was restored within 25 hours.
Complied by
Dr. Beryl Diamond
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