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SDF, local responders train
together in mass casualty exercise
The Georgia State Defense Force Medical Company, along with local
first responders, trained on what do to during a mass casualty
situation at a local religious facility February 19. Full
Story.
Air Guard combo
thrills children of Djibouti
The Georgia Air National Guard’s 530th Air Force Band recently attracted
scores of children in the village of Damerjog in Djibouti with their
rock band,
underscoring that music is truly the universal language.
Full
Story
Army Guard’s Tadlock
honored with service award
For Chief Warrant Officer 5 Robert C. Tadlock, receiving the Army
Ordnance Corps' Order of Samuel Sharpe for his distinguished service to
the Corps and its principles is a humbling experience.
Full Story
Guardsmen sharpen
urban warfare skills
Somewhere, out in the dusty, dirty streets of Fort Benning’s McKenna
MOUT site, small arms and automatic weapons fire erupted. A convoy, its
lead and rear Humvees disabled by IEDs, its vehicle crews hunkered down in
the safety of nearby buildings, calls for Company D, 2nd Battalion, 121st
Infantry to come to its aid.
Full Story
ACT Contributes
Funds
to Guard Foundation
The Association of Civilian Technicians (ACT) recently presented the
Georgia National Guard Foundation with a check for $500 which will go to
help National Guardsmen and Guard families in times of personal need.
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1st BN, 118th FA Soldiers
earn Soldier, NCO of the Year
Private 1st Class Thomas Gritzner and Sgt. Kenneth Lee, Soldiers of the
1st Battalion,118th Field Artillery Regiment, have been selected as the
48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team’s Soldier and Non-Commissioned Officer
of the Year.
Full Story
148th detachment gets new name,
new flag; now 348th
Ceremonies at Hinesville’s
National Guard armory marked the addition of Company B, 348th Brigade
Support Battalion. The unit is the first to be activated
for the 348th, one of the Georgia Army Guard’s newest battalions and
soon to be headquartered in Cumming.
Full Story
Studying the “Sweet Science,”
Airmen trains for
Boxing
team
Air Force Staff Sgt. Thomas Jacobs takes part in the Air Force
boxing team as not only a hobby but a way to stay fit.
Full Story
124th MPAD learns TV
satellite system
Members of the 124th Mobile Public Affairs
Detachment learn how to properly assemble and disassemble the DVIDS
satellite. The Soldiers also learned how to acquire a lock on to the
satellite and transmit video and pictures.
G.S.D.F.
commissions
its first Jewish chaplain
March 2nd, Rabbi Zalman Lipskier, Director of Chabad at Emory
University, Atlanta, GA, was formally commissioned as the first Jewish
Chaplain in Georgia’s military history to serve in the Georgia State
Defense Force or its companion Georgia Army and Air National Guard forces.
This is the second appointment of a Chassidic Rabbi to one of the
country’s 25 volunteer State Defense Forces.
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Deployment Update |
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Sergeant 1st Class Lamar Johnson of the
122nd Regional Training Institute, works with England's Prince Harry in
Afghanistan, Prince Harry has since returned to England.
Georgia Army Guard Sgt. Richard Holdridge
(right), poses for a photo with Gen. David Petraeus, commander,
Multi-National Force-Iraq at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. Petraeus was
making a 10 minute visit to the embassy on command business.
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First Lt. Austin Allen, commander, Company C, 1st Battalion, 185th
Aviation, along with several members of the unit, present an encased
American flag to Steve Chapman, the president and general manager of the
Gwinnett Gladiators. The unit carried an American flag with them during
flight operations in Kosovo. A team of 19 members from the unit deployed
in support of the mission. (Georgia Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Greg
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A look at what happened in March in Georgia National Guard history...
March 24, 1825 – Mrs. Edward Harden, wife of brigade commander
Edward Harden, 1st Brigade Division created a flag for the 1st
Regiment of Savannah’s militia to carry during General
Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert-DuMotier Lafayette’s tour of
Georgia in March of that year. Governor George M. Troup made the
presentation speech, passing the flag “from the fair to the brave.”
The regiment probably consisted of the Chatham Artillery, Savannah
Volunteer Guards and the Republican Guards. (source: Smith, Gordon
Burns. History of the Georgia Militia, 1783-1861; counties and
commanders, part I, Milledgeville, Ga.: Boyd Publishing, 2000. II,
36.)
March 2, 1913
– A company of
the Irish Jasper Greens, 2 Officers and 27 men, left Savannah for
Washington D. C. to participate in the inaugural parade of President
Woodrow Wilson. The unit returned on March 6. The Greens were a small
portion of the estimated 40,000 persons who participated in inaugural
activities..
Compiled by Mrs. Gail Parnelle, command historian; and Dr. B. I.
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