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116th 'Masters' Win 'Erwin Award'
ROBINS AFB, Ga. – While their
Joint STARS career fields are different, Master Sgts. Richard Quinones and
Emory Dean are definitely fighting the same fight with the same
award-winning skill and professionalism.
Full
Story
Westgate
Earns Star; Leads 3,000 Georgia Air Guardsmen
Steven Westgate of Savannah, Vice Commander of the 3,300-member Georgia
Air National Guard has earned promotion to the rank of Brigadier General.
Full Story
TAG, Chambliss,
Isakson, Linder
Visit 117th
Georgia’s 117th Air Control Squadron
currently serving in
Iraq
recently received a visit from the Maj Gen David Poythress and Georgia’s
Senators Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson as well as Congressman John
Linder in April.
Full Story.
Col. Ed Wexler (L), and wife Mary, accept an
award from Col. (ret.) Ed Chamberlain
Wexler Retires Following 30 Years; HRO
Chief For 3 Years
Following three years of service as
the Human Resources Officer for the Georgia National Guard, and more than
30 years of Air Force service, Col. Ed Wexler is retiring.
Full Story.
23 State DOD Employees Earn Public Employee Recognition Awards
Some 23 employees of the Georgia
Department of Defense were honored May 4, as the 2006 Public Employee Recognition
Award winners.
Full Story, List of Award Winners
Joint Army-Air Group Recovers
Historic F-86L 'Sabre Jet'
A F-86L
fighter aircraft once flown by the 116th Fighter Interceptor Wing, Georgia
Air National Guard is now at Robins AFB for restoration. Col. Ed
Wexler, and members of the Army National Guard’s 277th Maintenance Co.,
and the Air National Guard’s 165th Maintenance Group, 116th Maintenance
Group and the 202nd Engineering Installation Squadron were involved in
the recovery.
Full Story
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Governor
Taps Nesbitt to Head
Georgia's Homeland Security
Major General William T.
Nesbitt, commander of the Georgia Army National Guard, has been appointed
by Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue as the state’s director of homeland
security.
The Governor announced
the appointment this week in Savannah. Nesbitt will report directly to
Governor Perdue and will oversee all homeland security issues in the state
of Georgia. Read Full Story
Georgia Labor Agreement
Concluded In Record Time
Georgia DOD and labor officials gathered at
Confederate Avenue recently for the signing of the Georgia DOD
Labor-Management agreement. Read Full
Story
| Lt. Col Bill Day, IT
director of the Georgia National Guard discusses Guard technology
capabilities with Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff. |
Homeland Chief Chertoff Visits
With Georgia Guard
Michael Chertoff. Secretary of Homeland Security visited with Georgia
National Guardsmen in Thomasville, GA on Tuesday as the secretary
witnessed the extensive capabilities of the National Guard in its ever
increasing homeland security role. Full
Story.
CW2 Berg Earns
MacArthur
Leadership Award
Chief Warrant
Officer 2 Douglas M. Berg, a seven year veteran of the Georgia Army
National Guard has been awarded the prestigious General Douglas MacArthur
Leadership Award for 2006. Berg, a Black Hawk helicopter pilot
assigned to Company C, 171st Aviation Regiment at Dobbins ARB,
is one of twenty-seven national recipients of the annual award.
Full Story
Georgia Army Guard
Hosts Oglethorpe Site Visit
The Georgia Army National Guard took another step forward in its quality
improvement process when it hosted the Oglethorpe Award Site Visit Team in
April.
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Deployment Update |
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48th BCT
Redeploys . . . HOME!
The initial elements of the 48th Brigade Combat Team
began returning from their year-long deployment to Iraq in mid April.
Flights bringing units home will continue throughout May.
On hand to greet the first arrivals
-- members of the 1st Battalion, 121st Infantry -- were Governor Sonny
Perdue and Mrs. Perdue.
Stories and Pictures.
Other Stories About
the
48th Brigade Combat Team
For Wounded GI, Welcome Home
' A Bit Funny'
A Journey To Remember
148th, 118th, HQ 48th Return
Gainesville's
Co. C, 121st Honored with Humanitarian Award For 'Noor' Role
In December
2005, members of Company C, 1st Battalion, 121st Infantry made national
headlines when they rescued Baby Noor, a tiny Iraqi infant suffering
from Spina Bifida. In April 2006, the Gainesville-based unit was
honored at the State Capitol by the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust
with its annual humanitarian award.
Full story
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This month we look
at a surprise find:
French
Croix De
Guerre Turns Up
In USPO Warehouse
A surprise find was tucked among flags and guidons stored in an
enormous box in the USPFO warehouse.
It was a French Croix de Guerre medal,
together with citation, awarded to the 3rd Battalion, 121st Infantry
Regiment in 1946 for actions in Brittany in 1944. The 3rd Battalion
had units in Albany, Cordele, Dawson and Hawkinsville. The award,
first created in 1915, is one of the highest decorations that can be
awarded to foreign units.
The unit was cited for withstanding
violent enemy artillery and mortar attacks and forcing the enemy to
abandon its position resulting in the taking of 60 prisoners.
The medal, citation and 36
organizational flags as well as unit guidons have been transferred to
the Georgia National Guard History Office. USPFO officials had kept
them because of their historical value and made the box accessible to
the History Office.
Complied by Gail Parnelle, GaARNG Historical Section |
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