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During its first deployment in 2003, members of the 3rd Infantry Detachment stand in front of the Iraqi border the day before the ground war began. The unit left for it's second deployment New Year's weekend.

3rd Infantry Detachment Heads Overseas
For Second Deployment

The Georgia Army National Guard's 3rd Infantry Detachment deployed over New Year's weekend to the theater of operations in support of the Global War on Terrorism. The 19-member unit mobilized at its home station at Fort Stewart in November and spent several months going through post-mobilization training prior to the departure to Iraq last week. This deployment marks the unit's second mobilization in the past three years. The 3rd Inf. Det. was in Iraq in support of Fort Stewart's 3rd Infantry Division during the ground war in 2003.