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The Georgia Army National Guard was originally formed in 1751 to serve as colonial militia during the French and Indian War. The 118th Field Artillery (GA ARNG), which traces its lineage to militia units from Savannah and surrounding Chatham County that served in the War of 1812, is one of only nineteen Army National Guard units with campaign ...
The 878th Engineer Battalion is located in east central Georgia and stretches from Augusta south to Fort Stewart. Georgia. Headquarters & Forward Support Company - Augusta, GA. 810th Engineer Company (Sapper)(-) - Swainsboro, GA. 848th Engineer Company - Douglasville, GA. 876th Engineer Support Company -Columbus, GA
The Georgia Department of Defense employs over 11,100 Army National Guard soldiers, 2,800 Air National Guard airmen, 760 State Defense Force members, and 563 state employees. It oversees the Georgia National Guard as part of the total force policy and trains its units to fight and to win on battlefields with modern technology and weaponry.
The Georgia National Guard has a State Partnership Program relationship with the Georgian Defence Forces since 1994, and Argentina since 2016. [ 3 ] In 2021, in response to a massive spike in COVID-19 cases, more than 100 National Guard personnel were deployed to 20 hospitals across Georgia.
On 26 September 2009, the Georgia National Guard assumed ownership of the former Naval Air Station Atlanta at a formal transfer of facilities ceremony. The transfer was the result of the 2005 Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission report which recommended closing the 50-year-old Marietta base.
Daniel Robert Smyth of Rockford writes that he supports efforts to bring the old National Guard Armory back to life.
The mission of the 648th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade (MEB) is to provide manned, ready, and fully equipped mission-capable units to the Governor of the State of Georgia and to combatant and joint task force commanders to conduct support area operations, maneuver support operations, and support to consequence management and stability operations in order to assure the mobility, protection, and ...
Once home-stationed in Decatur, it has, since Jan. 11, 2011, occupied the former headquarters of Naval Air Station Atlanta at what has become the Clay National Guard Center since late September 2009. As 2011 progressed, many of the units that make up the Region IV HRF have been relocated from their present armories to facilities at Clay.