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Falcons Give 'Falcons' A Lift
Falcon's quarterback Michael Vick's usual precision pass to running back Warrick Dunn was uncharacteristically dropped when the All Pro running back glanced up at the approach of a flight of four Georgia Army National Guard
Black Hawk helicopters at treetop level descending rapidly toward the end zone.
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Dobbins Chapel
Looking at New Life
Retirees Lead Efforts to Save Structure
The 116th Chapel, once destined for demolition following more than 50 years at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, may get a new lease on life.
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Former TAG Dead at 74
Former Adjutant General of Georgia, Maj. Gen. Joseph Wesley Griffin Jr., died Friday, July 1, at Hospitality Care Center of Thomas County. The Thomasville resident was 74.
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Trainers Course Set for Mid-July
Georgia DoD and the Office of Organizational Development hold a Training, Tools and Techniques Course July 12-15 for present & future trainers at the 283rd Combat Communications Squadron, 1478 1st St., Dobbins Air Reserve Base.
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48th
Soldier killed in Iraq patrol
Friends and co-workers of Sgt. Chad Mercer of Waycross remembered him Friday, the day after he was killed in Iraq, as a devoted family man and a hard-working
Soldier. Mercer, 25, was a member of the Georgia Army National Guard’s 48th Brigade Combat Team.
Before deploying to Iraq he competed in Georgia's NCO of the Year. More |
Air Guardsman Return to Savannah Kids Receives Special "Hero" Medals
About 100 Georgia Air National Guardsmen from the 165th Airlift Wing returned to Savannah in late June following a three-month K-2 rotation to Uzbekistan. As a part of the homecoming ceremonies, children of the deployed 165Air Guardsmen were recognized with a special "Children's' Homefront Hero Medal."
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Guardsmen
Help Celebrate 4th of July
While most everyone else was out enjoying food, the fun and the fireworks, some of our fellow Georgia Guardsmen was participating in several of this year's Independence Day events.
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Airman Reups Over Iraq
During the early morning hours of May 10, in the cloudless sky high above Iraq, Senior Airman Mark Porter reenlisted in the Air Force for another four-year tour-of-duty.
Major Mark Weber conducted the ceremony while Porter was on an operational mission, performing his in-flight duties.
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Leadership Course Dates Announced
The Georgia Department of Defense and the Office of Organizational Development announces the offering of the last Leadership Skills Enhancement courses for fiscal year 2005.
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Program Holds Promise of Jobs for Current, Former Guardsmen
A new program touting the availability of jobs in the construction industry is available to Guardsman still in uniform and those who no longer serve.
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48th
BCT Assumes Responsibility
Georgia National Guard’s 48th Brigade Combat Team took over primary support and security missions south of Baghdad June 17 during a transfer of authority ceremony with 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division.
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Second
Group of 122nd ROC Soldiers mobilize to Camp Shelby
With only five days together as man and wife, Georgia Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Jason and Lisa Taft held each other tightly outside the Decatur Armory, and then said goodbye as the he and 20 his fellow Soldiers of Savannah's 122nd Rear Operations Center began the first leg of their journey to war.
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A
look at what happened this month in Georgia National
Guard history
1846
– The Mobile Register and Journal of Mobile, Ala., reported
on the 5th the ship William Bradstreet brought to the city three companies of the Georgia Regiment of Volunteers. These men were on their way to the Rio Grande for the Mexican War. The rest of the regiment under the command of Col. Jackson arrived on three other steamers, the Amaranth, the Lowndes and the Eureka. The Georgia companies in the regiment were: the Georgia Light Infantry, the Sumter Volunteers, the Macon Guards, the Columbus Guards, the Richmond Blues, the Canton Volunteers, the Jasper Greens, the Crawford Guards, the Fanin Avengers and the Kansas Rangers.
1975 – Weapons training became mandatory for women enlisting in the Army as of July. Those who enlisted before July 1 were still under the voluntary weapons training program until the end of their enlistment.
1986 –
Teams of Georgia Army and Air National Guardsmen using trucks delivered more than 1,100 tons of hay to distribution points across the state for starving Georgia livestock during "Operation Haylift." The state was experiencing severe drought, and particularly hard hit were the beef and dairy cattlemen. Governor Joe Frank Harris ordered to state active duty an estimated130 Georgia Guardsmen to deliver the hay that had been shipped from Illinois.
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