Agreement Give SDF Statewide Bases of Operations
During Emergencies

Members of the all volunteer Georgia State Defense Force who are called to emergency duty can now use the campuses of Georgia’s 34 Technical colleges as staging areas under an agreement between the State and the Defense Force and the Department of Technical and Adult Education .

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed in late 2006 that allows for the DTAE campuses to provide areas for SDF members to assemble, set up command posts, and triage areas when the event the Governor declares a state of emergency for which the volunteer force is activated.

Located in every portion of the state, the technical school campuses, said Brig. Gen. Mike McGuinn, SDF commander, “gives us the State Defense Force an awful lot of geography to work with.”

DTAE interim commission Ron Jackson echoed McGuinn’s comments saying that “given their locations, technical college faculties can provide an excellent base of operations in times of natural disaster.”

Approximately 850 volunteers comprise Georgia’s State Defense Force.