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Georgia Guardsmen were among the more than 2,000 active
duty, Guard and Reserve and Department of Defense civilians supporting
Independence Day celebrations across the nation. Soldiers assigned to the Army National Guard’s
Demonstration and Recruiting Team (DART), for example, were at Six Flags
over Georgia during the week leading up to the July 4 holiday. Team
members then joined the WSB Salute 2 America pre-parade show on the
fourth. DART’s Patriot and Orange Crush Humvees, along with a
tactical Humvee assigned to Kennesaw’s 190th Military Police Company
and the Guard’s Sgt. Hooah were among those traveled the parade route.
As the parade progressed, three UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters from
Marietta’s 1st Battalion, 171st Aviation Regiment flew overhead. Later in the day, DART put the Patriot and Orange Crush
on display next to an Army Guard Black Hawk in the parking lot of Turner
Stadium. This allowed Braves baseball fans to talk with Georgia
Guardsmen prior to the game. That night the Black Hawk left the parking lot to do a
fly-over of the stadium. It
then proceeded to Lennox Mall. Once over the mall, it joined two other
UH-60s in a fly-over of the mall and Centennial Olympic Park. Missing from this year’s activities were Long Range
Surveillance soldiers of Company H, 121st Infantry Regiment. In the past
a group from the Fort Gillem-based unit re-enact the foot march
conducted in December 1943 Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry
Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, from Camp Toccoa in Northeast Georgia
to Atlanta. Company H is on deployment to the Middle East where it is assisting in the stabilization of Iraq since the end of major combat operations in that war-torn country. |
