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President George W. Bush greets Guardsman, residents of
Americus while touring the storm-stricken area.
Guard Mobilized In Wake
of Americus of Tornadoes
Members of the Georgia Army and Air Guard were called to
duty in the wake of a deadly tornado that ripped through portions of
southwest Georgia in early March.
Guardsmen participating includied members of Company C,
2nd Battalion, 121st Infantry from Americus. They were supported by the
148th Support Battalion along with aviation assets from the 185th
Aviation Battalion. Air Guard support came from the 283rd Combat
Communications Squadron, Dobbins Air Reserve Base; 202nd Engineering
and Installation Squadron, Macon; 165th Airlift Wing, Savannah; and
116th Air Control Wing, Warner Robins
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202nd Helps Byron Following Storm
Macon’s 202nd Engineering Installation Squadron got real world
training recently when its members assisted Byron, Ga., in restoring a
fallen communications antenna.
Full Story
4th CST, 202nd EOD, Aviation Participate In Gordon County
Disaster Exercise
Shortly after classes began at Sonoraville
High and Middle schools about 6 miles from Calhoun, emergency klaxons
alerted students and faculty to trouble inside the high school’s
hallowed halls. What the more than 800 people who evacuated the two
schools didn’t know was that two “gunmen,” one packing explosives, the
other an “unknown chemical agent,” darted from a “stolen sedan” into
the high school’s main hall, downed a Gordon County sheriff’s deputy
and began roaming the building looking for victims.
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116th ACW Welcomes Moore
As New Commander
Colonel Thomas Moore assumed
command of the 116th Air Control Wing, at a change of command ceremony
at Robins AFB, Ga. Lieutenant Gen.
Robert Elder, Eighth Air Force commander, officiated. Joining General
Elder was Maj. Gen. Scott Hammond, commander, Georgia Air
National Guard.
Full Story
48th's Deputy Promoted To Full Bird
Georgia Army National Guard Lt. Col. John King, deputy commander, 48th
Infantry Brigade Combat Team, was promoted to the rank of colonel during a ceremony
held in March. In addition to Guard personnel, members of the Doraville
Police Department and the mayor of Doraville, Ray Jenkins, attended the
promotion ceremony. In his civilian life, King serves as chief-of police
for the city of Doraville.
Wing Vice-Commander Doehling
Retires Following 38 Year Career
It started when a low flying F-104
Thunderchief shot by leaving a plume of exhaust and a newfound dream.
A young Air Force ROTC cadet decided
to become a fighter pilot that day and the fruition of his aspirations
is an admirable 38-year career which recently came to an end. Colonel Bob Doehling, 116th Air Control
Wing vice commander, who retired March 10, left behind a long and
distinguished career.
Full Story
'Military Women Moving Forward'
Guard Chief Britt Says
Georgia Army National Guard chief of staff Col. Maria Britt related her
experiences growing up and as a woman in the military to an audience of
more than 100 gathered at Fort McPherson’s Commons Club in celebration of
Women’s History Month. Britt, who’s been with the Guard for more than 20
years, and was its first female battalion commander, focused her comments
on the theme, “Generations of women moving history forward.”
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Hurricane Exercise
Tests Guard Readiness
Elements
of the Georgia Air and Army National Guard teamed up at Robins
AFB, and at
Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta with members of Georgia's
State Defense Force to face "Hurricane Sierra," a fictitious storm
created by the Georgia Department of Defense to judge the rapid
response capabilities of the Guard in the event of a major
hurricane. Full Story
CERF-P Conducts Initial Training at Savannah's CRTC
More than 200 Army and Air National
Guardsmen, all members of the Georgia National Guard’s newly formed CERF-P
capability, trained for a week at the Savannah CRTC in early March.
Georgia is one of fourteen states possessing the unique CERFP function
that provides a full realm of National Guard resources in response to
natural disasters or terrorist incidences anywhere within the continental
United States.
Full Story
Van Kampen, Mastin Chosen
Army's 'Best of the Best'
Two Georgia Army National
Guardsmen, out of a field of eight competitors, have been named the best
among their fellow Soldiers during a two-day
competition held on the grounds of Macon’s Regional Training Institute (RTI).
Named Noncommissioned Officer of the Year for 2007 is Sgt. Heather D. Van
Kampen of Norcross. Chosen Soldier of the Year is Spc. Amie Mastin.
Full Story
Governor
Honors Guard During
Annual
National Guard Day
Members of
the Georgia Army and Air National Guard and the Georgia State Defense
Force were honored by the Governor during National Guard Day in
Georgia. As he issued issued his annual proclamation, Gov. Sonny
Perdue applauded the thousands of men and women in the Guard for their
hard work and perseverance in Iraq, Afghanistan and along the Nation’s
Southwest border. He also thanked the Guardsmen who recently went to
the aid of tornado victims in Southwest Georgia.
Full
Story
Army Guard's David Young Inducted
Into Infantry Hall of Fame
Georgia Army National Guard Col. David K. Young, joint
director of military support at Joint Forces Headquarters, Dobbins Air
Reserve Base, was inducted into the U.S. Army's Officer Candidate
School Hall of Fame during a ceremony at Fort Benning. Induction into
the hall is the highest honor that the officer training school can give
to a former graduate. Young was one of 47 Soldiers to be honored this
year.
Full Story
Annual
Top-Gun For Children
Slated for Kennesaw
The Top Gun For Children motorcycle ride, an annual event to raise funds
for deserving charities, will be held April 21. The Georgia
National Guard Family Support Foundation is this year a co-beneficiary.
The 1/171 Aviation Group will provide a UH-6- Black Hawk helicopter as a
static display. Call the Foundation at 678-569-6023 or The Center at
770-333-9447 or view the website:
www.topgunrideatlanta.com for more information
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Deployment Update |
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| From the left Sgt.
1st Class Willie Osborn, Staff Sgt. James Steel and Sgt. 1st Class
Kenneth Jackson mark duffle bags and other baggage. (Georgia
National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Roy Henry) |
1230th Begins 2nd Deployment
Sixteen members of the 1230th Transportation
Company in Bainbridge have left for Camp Atterbury, Ind., where the South
Georgia unit will begin the first leg of its deployment in support of
Operation Iraqi Freedom. The unit's main body will follow.
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ASOS Guardsmen Aid Local Community in Search for Missing Brunswick Child
Thirty members of the Georgia’s 165th ASOS were called out recently to
help local authorities search for six-year-old Christopher Michael
Barrios Jr., reported to have disappeared from a trailer park near the
unit's Canal Road headquarters.The
Guardsmen were part of an intensive search and recovery effort involving
local and state search parties. The areas searched by the 165th covered about two square miles of very dense brush, briars,
and coastal palms. Days
later Glynn County authorities took several persons into custody in
connection with the disappearance. A body, identified as that of the
missing child, was later found authorities said.
Lieutenant Col.
(Ret.) Charles L. Moulton
Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Charles L. Moulton, age 59, of Eatonton
died Friday March 23. Col. Moulton was employed as a civilian consultant
to the Georgia National Guard’s Human Resources Office. Funeral services
were held March 26.
Survivors include his wife, Janice, four children
and five grandchildren. Full Obituary
Historical Society Needs YOU!
A new year means the start of another Historical Society of the Georgia
National Guard membership drive. Those Guardsmen, federal and state
employees who feel that preserving the history and heritage of Georgia’s
military force is significant will find the Society a useful resource.
Cost of an annual membership is $15 Individual; $25 joint membership, and
$20 senior (55 or older). For more information contact..
John Hardwick at:
john.hardwick@ga.ngb.army.mil
678-569-6451
or Dr. Beryl Diamond at
beryl.diamond@ga.ngb.army.mil
678-569-6065.
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A look at what happened in
March
in Georgia National Guard history:…
1958 - First Lieutenant Robert H. Sprayberry,
assistant aviation maintenance officer, Georgia Army National Guard, wrote a memorandum dated April
23, for Maj. Gen. Charlie Camp, the Adjutant General, presenting a proposal and
the cost
for a five week instrument school at Travis Field in Savannah. Colonel William
Robinette, director of training, noted in another memo to Camp that both
he and Lt. Col.
Donald Mees, executive officer, Headquarters and Headquarters
Detachment, thought Sprayberry's
proposal "the only workable solution to get our pilots
qualified." Moreover, he wrote, "Lt. Sprayberry would like you to bring this
matter up on your trip to the Bureau..."
Recently these
documents, as well as many others, belonging to the estate of the late Robert Sprayberry were
part of a
donation to the Georgia National Guard history effort by Mrs. Robert Sprayberry. The donation was accepted by Gail Parnelle who picked
them up in late February and who is now processing them in the History
Office. Parnelle remarked, "This donation is like a master key to
Georgia Army National Guard aviation history in that Sprayberry was instrumental in
developing programs, training and facilities for our aviation units."
Sprayberry
began his Guard career in 1949 as a private with the 179th Field
Artillery. Later, as Aviation became his specialty he was assigned to HHD,
Georgia Army National Guard
as a flight instructor and to the Adjutant General's office as pilot
and assistant army aviation supervisor. In 1969, then Lt. Col. Sprayberry
was named as the civilian director of the newly formed
State of Georgia Department of Air Transportation. Two years later he
returned to full time duty with the Adjutant General's office to
oversee Army Guard aviation units. In early 1972 he was named state
aviation officer and
served in that capacity until 1980 when left to assume the post of deputy
commandant at
Fort Hauchuca's (Arizona) Intelligence Center. Colonel Sprayberry retired from the National Guard in 1983.
Complied by Gail Parnelle,
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