Story by Airman 1st Class Josiah Meece | 116th Air Control Wing | 05.21.2021
Thirty Airmen with the 116th Security Forces Squadron, Georgia Air National Guard, along with units from the Alabama Air National Guard, completed annual training here, May 17 to 21. The five-day course began with heavy weapons training where the Airmen trained with various machine guns and grenade launchers....
Story by Master Sgt. Nancy Goldberger | 116th Air Control Wing | 12.29.2020
Year of the Nurse December 2019 promised 2020 would be a year of progress and excitement for 1st Lt. Leah Bagley, officer in charge of search and extraction in the 116th Medical Group, Detachment 1, Georgia Air National Guard (GA ANG), as she graduated as a nurse practitioner. It was to be “Year of the Nurse and the Midwife” — a campaign designed by the World......
Courtesy Story | 116th Air Control Wing | 09.13.2020
U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Franklin Wetmore, a radio frequency transmission systems craftsman with the 202d Engineering Installation Squadron, 116th Air Control Wing, Georgia Air National Guard, was awarded the Purple Heart medal on Sep. 13, 2020, during a ceremony at the Museum of Aviation outside Robins Air Force Base. On Dec. 11, 2019, while Wetmore and his team were awaiting airlift to......
Courtesy Story | 116th Air Control Wing | 05.19.2020
I am Staff Sgt. Scott Shalek, an E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System aircraft aerospace propulsion mechanic with the 116th Maintenance Squadron, Georgia Air National Guard. I enlisted in the Georgia Air National Guard in October 2019 after 11 years in the Regular Air Force....
Story by Maj. Will Cox | Georgia National Guard | 09.25.2014
An infantry platoon with the 48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Georgia Army National Guard, recently joined forces with the Canadian 48th Highlanders in a complex training exercise called Operation Stalwart Guardian. The multi-nation, multi-service exercise challenged reserve units to defend Canada from a simulated insurgent threat and culminated in an amphibious assault near Toronto....
Story by Maj. Will Cox | Georgia National Guard | 09.16.2014
Family, friends and coworkers gathered to welcome home 200 Georgia Guardsmen with the 48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (IBCT) from Afghanistan Tuesday, Sept. 16 in Macon, Ga. The 48th IBCT conducted some of the largest and most complex transfers of installations in Afghanistan to date during their 9 month deployment....
Story by Maj. Will Cox | Georgia National Guard | 07.21.2014
One thing paratroopers do not take for granted is their parachute and the rigger that packed it. According to the Riggers Pledge, riggers are trained from day one to keep a wholehearted respect for their vocation, regarding it as a high profession rather than a day-to-day task....
Story by Maj. Will Cox | Georgia National Guard | 07.14.2014
The 1-171 General Support Aviation Battalion is saving time and dollars by training UH-60 Black Hawk crew chiefs in a virtual trainer at the Clay National Guard Center in Marietta, Georgia. The senior flight instructor scheduled the training this July so that the aircrews could qualify quicker and score higher during the aerial gunnery range at Fort Gordon later this month....
