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• 91 Juliet: chemical equipment repair specialist

  CLAY NATIONAL GUARD CENTER, Marietta, Ga., Jan. 27, 2012 – When Sgt. Jose Castro joined the Puerto Rico National Guard in 1995, he chose 91 Juliet (chemical equipment repairer) as the military occupational specialty (MOS) for his career. ...

• Yellow-ribbon programs assist Soldiers and Families with reintegration, jobs

  CLAY NATIONAL GUARD CENTER, Marietta, Ga., Feb. 02, 2012 – Since time immemorial, Warriors have been welcomed home from distant battlefields. On a sunny January weekend in Savannah, the Georgia Army National Guard continued that tradition. Lieutenant ...

• 648th MEB starts mission in Afghanistan

  CAMP PHOENIX, Kabul, Afghanistan, Jan. 27, 2012 – Colonel Andy L. Hall, Commander of the 648th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, a Georgia Army National Guard unit from Columbus, Ga., assumed command of Task Force Hydra and responsibility for the Kabul Ba...

• Defense Coordination Element prepares for emergency response mission

  DOBBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Marietta, Ga., Jan. 19, 2012 – The Defense Coordination Element (DCE) for FEMA Region IV practiced loading a C-5 here today as part of its readiness preparation for rapid deployment in emergency response....

• Joint STARS keeps watch as nearly nine-year war ends

  CLAY NATIONAL GUARD CENTER, Marietta, Ga., Jan. 18, 2012 – From the beginning of the Global War on Terror, Air Force E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System, or Joint STARS, aircraft from Warner Robins’ 116th Air Control Wing have helped ...

• 648th MEB trains for historic Afghan mission

  FORT HOOD, Texas, Jan. 17, 2012 – The 648th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade will play a significant role in the expected reduction of United States forces in Afghanistan. The 648th MEB headquarters staff will have a three-fold mission...

• 78th Aviation Troop Command leadership changes

  DOBBINS AIR RESERVE BASE, Marietta, Ga., Jan. 8, 2012 – Soldiers of the 78th Aviation Troop Command (one of the Georgia Army Guard’s five major commands) said farewell to Col. Brent E. Bracewell, who has served as the unit’s commander for the...

• 78th HRF names its top Soldier, NCO pair to move on to statewide competition

  CLAY NATIONAL GUARD CENTER, Marietta, Ga., Jan. 8, 2012 – Georgia’s 78th Homeland Response Force (HRF) named its enlisted and noncommissioned officer Best Warriors of the Year for 2012 after two days of intense weekend competition among 10 competito...

• 221st Military Intelligence Soldiers depart for Afghanistan

  FORT GILLEM ENCLAVE, Ellenwood, Ga., Jan. 7, 2012 – Soldiers with the Georgia Army Guard’s 221st Military Intelligence (MI) Battalion said goodbye to family, friends and fellow Guardsmen here today before joining in the continuing operations in Sout...

• 1-111th Aviators return home for the holidays

  CLAY NATIONAL GUARD CENTER, Marietta, Ga., Dec. 25, 2011 – The Aviators, Soldiers, and family members of Company C, 1-111st General Support Aviation Battalion (GSAB), received a special Christmas present as the Marietta-based Georgia Army National Gua...

• 648th MEB adopts a family for Christmas

  NORTH FORT HOOD, TEXAS, Dec. 21, 2011 – Thanks to the Georgia Army National Guard’s 648th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade (MEB) of Columbus, Ga, a local family from Killeen, Texas, was able to celebrate Christmas this year. ...

• Discounted Falcons tickets to benefit GNGFSF: December 15, 2011 and January 1, 2012

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• Guard, GSDF give time to ‘Clark’s Christmas Kids’

  CLAY NATIONAL GUARD CENTER, Marietta, Ga., Dec. 13, 2011 – Soldiers with the Georgia Army Guard’s 124th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment (MPAD), 78th Homeland Response Force, along with members of the Georgia State Defense Force volunteere...

• Guard’s 648th off to Fort Hood, then Afghanistan

  FORT BENNING, Columbus, Ga., Dec. 11, 2011 – Standing outside the new Armed Forces Reserve Center here in the town his unit has called home the past several weeks, Col. Andy Hall, commander of the Georgia Army Guard’s 648th Maneuver Enhancement Brig...

• Winter safety tips from an Alaskan

  CLAY NATIONAL GUARD CENTER, Marietta, Ga., Dec. 8, 2011 – As a former Alaskan, I am happy to offer winter safety tips based on my experience enduring snowy conditions for the better part of my life. While I spent nearly two decades in Alaska, I have l...

• For National Guard’s 375th Birthday, Georgia celebrates opening of new headquarters building

  CLAY NATIONAL GUARD CENTER, Marietta, Ga., Dec. 7, 2011 – More than 500 guests, including local and state officials and three former adjutants general, filled the main assembly area of the new Joint Force Headquarters building here to commemorate its ...

• Even the Battle of the Bulge could not stop Christmas

  CLAY NATIONAL GUARD CENTER, Marietta, Ga., Dec. 1, 2011 – War is never pretty.  It never stops for very long to allow for celebration because there are objectives to take and movements to make.  If you’re an American Christian, C...

• Air Guard medical groups participate in homeland response force exercise

  CLAY NATIONAL GUARD CENTER, Marietta, Ga., Dec. 1, 2011 – Georgia Air Guard medical personnel – stationed at Savannah’s Combat Readiness Training Center and Warner Robins’ Robins Air Force Base – came together for a five-day exercise at the Fl...

• Army Guardsmen receive AJC achievement award

  DOBBINS AIR RESERVE BASE, Marietta, Ga., Nov. 18, 2011 – Two Georgia Army Guardsmen are among the four Soldiers to receive the 2011 Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) Army Reserve Achievement Award today for outstanding performance at a ceremony held ...

• College student heads to war

  METTER, Ga., Nov. 15, 2011 – While most college students have their own set of concerns and real-world hurdles to clear, Spc. Andrew Wexel, an infantryman in the Georgia Army National Guard and a psychology major at Georgia Gwinnett College, will be t...