Georgia National Guard
Hometown: Marietta, GA, US
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Featured Video
Lt. Col. Jose Fernandez - Fox Sports South Holiday Shoutout
Lt. Col. Jose Fernandez shares a name with a Marlins baseball player. He also share a sense of love and loyalty to his career and his teammates. The men and women of the Georgia National Guard..
Video by Staff Sgt. Tracy Smith | GDD-PAO | 12.12.2014
Recent Photos
(598 votes; 2.89)
Bibb County Youth ChalleNGe cadet recognized by Chief,...Gen. Frank J. Grass, Chief, National Guard Bureau, recognized Cadet Sonny Bailey, Thursday, Jan. 8, for his participation in the Georgia National Guard’s 22-week...
Photo by Staff Sgt. Tracy Smith | GDD-PAO | 01.08.2015
Final airborne operations briefGeorgia Army and Air Guardsmen plan airborne operations at Savannah’s Combat Readiness Training Center Dec. 9, 2014. The Georgia National Guard regularly conducts...
Photo by Maj. Will Cox | GDD-PAO | 12.09.2014
Georgia Department of Defense participates in GEMA...The Adjutant General of the Georgia National Guard Jim Butterworth discusses next steps in improving responses for winter weather emergencies with GEMA director...
Photo by Staff Sgt. Tracy Smith | GDD-PAO | 11.17.2014
Recognizing veterans of today and honoring pioneers of...Ninety-two year old Retired Air Force Col. Paul Koshewa, renders honors to Georgia National Guard Director of the Joint Staff, Brig. Gen. John F. King following the...
Photo by Staff Sgt. Tracy Smith | GDD-PAO | 11.11.2014
Search and extraction, rappellingSoldiers with Swainsboro’s 810th Engineer Company (SAPPER), participated in search and extraction training Nov. 7-9, at the Guardian Centers located in Perry. Pvt....
Photo by 1st Sgt. Rachel Dryden | 124MPAD | 11.07.2014
Vertical BreachingPfc. Devin Crumley, a wheeled vehicle mechanic from Swainsboro’s 810th Engineer Company, practices vertical breaking and breaching techniques during search and...
Photo by 1st Sgt. Rachel Dryden | 124MPAD | 11.07.2014
Recent Video
(14 votes; 4.00)
Lt. Col. Jose Fernandez - Fox Sports South Holiday ShoutoutLt. Col. Jose Fernandez shares a name with a Marlins baseball player. He also share a sense of love and loyalty to his career and his teammates. The men and women...
Video by Staff Sgt. Tracy Smith | GDD-PAO | 12.12.2014
2014 Diversity ConferenceInterviews from 2014 Diversity Conference at the Combat Readiness Training Center, Savannah, Ga.
Video by Sgt. 1st Class Gerard Brown | GDD-PAO | 12.10.2014
Diversity Conference, B-RollFootage from the 2014 Diversity Conference held at the Combat Readiness Training Center in Savannah, Ga.
Video by Sgt. 1st Class Gerard Brown | GDD-PAO | 12.10.2014
Ready to RespondInterviews with Capt. Daryl Oehrlein, commander, and Pfc. Cameron Loew, combat engineer, both of 810th Engineering Company (SAPPER). Georgia Guardsmen with...
Video by Sgt. Gary Hone | 124MPAD | 11.08.2014
Search and ExtractionGuardsmen from Swainsboro's 810th Engineer Company (SAPPER) used the Guardian Center complex located in Perry, Georgia, to hone their search and extraction skills....
Video by Sgt. James Braswell, Staff Sgt. Matt Couch and 1st Sgt. Rachel Dryden | 124MPAD | 11.07.2014
48th IBCT Returns Home Giving Closure to the Mission in...The 2014 deployment of the Georgia National Guard’s 48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team ended with the ‘Task Force Volunteers’ giving the mission in Afghanistan...
Video by Staff Sgt. Tracy Smith | GDD-PAO | 09.16.2014
Recent News Stories
(53 votes; 3.11)
Mitchell County Youth ChalleNGe cadet recognized by...
Command Chief Master Sgt. Joseph Greene, recognized a Mitchell County teen, Thursday, Jan. 8, for for his participation in the Georgia National Guard’s 22-week...
Story by Desiree Bamba | GDD-PAO | 01.13.2015
Command Chief Master Sgt. Joseph Greene, recognized a Mitchell County teen, Thursday, Jan. 8, for for his participation in the Georgia National Guard’s 22-week...
Story by Desiree Bamba | GDD-PAO | 01.13.2015
Bibb County Youth ChalleNGe cadet recognized by Chief,...General Frank J. Grass, Chief, National Guard Bureau, recognized a Glynn County teen, Thursday, Jan. 8, for his participation in the Georgia National Guard’s...
Story by Desiree Bamba | GDD-PAO | 01.13.2015
Georgia National Guardsmen making a difference in the...The Georgia Army National Guard deployed Soldiers to Central America for the first nine months of 2014 to build regional partners’ military capacity in order to...
Story by Maj. Will Cox | GDD-PAO | 11.10.2014
Three days of disasterGuardsmen from Swainsboro-based 810th Engineer Company participated in a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive search and extraction training...
Story by Spc. Steven Bennett | 124MPAD | 11.09.2014
Overseas deployment training- Saber Junction 2014The Georgia Army National Guard’s 1160th Transportation Company traveled to Germany in September for an overseas deployment training (ODT) exercise in support of...
Story by Maj. Will Cox | GDD-PAO | 10.14.2014
Georgia Guardsman's resiliency lends to 2014 Warrior...
Retired Georgia Army National Guard Captain Frank Barroqueiro doesn’t think of himself as a champion. Even as he stood on the archer’s line with other wounded,...
Story by Staff Sgt. Tracy Smith | GDD-PAO | 10.10.2014
Retired Georgia Army National Guard Captain Frank Barroqueiro doesn’t think of himself as a champion. Even as he stood on the archer’s line with other wounded,...
Story by Staff Sgt. Tracy Smith | GDD-PAO | 10.10.2014
Recent Audio
(5 votes; 3.20)
Sgt. Jason Ulin
Sgt. Jason Ulin from Savannah, Ga. talks to a Elberton Star and Examiner reporter about being awarded the Purple Heart Medal.
Courtesy Audio | GDD-PAO | 03.11.2014
Sgt. Jason Ulin from Savannah, Ga. talks to a Elberton Star and Examiner reporter about being awarded the Purple Heart Medal.
Courtesy Audio | GDD-PAO | 03.11.2014
Maj. Gen. James Butterworth
Maj. Gen. James Butterworth, Adjutant General (TAG) of the Georgia National Guard, commander, Georgia Army and Air National Guard and State Defense Force, talks to a...
Courtesy Audio | GDD-PAO | 02.12.2014
Maj. Gen. James Butterworth, Adjutant General (TAG) of the Georgia National Guard, commander, Georgia Army and Air National Guard and State Defense Force, talks to a...
Courtesy Audio | GDD-PAO | 02.12.2014
Col. Tom Blackstock
Col. Tom Blackstock talks to a WDUN-AM reporter about the National Guard assisting in winter storm relief in Georgia.
Courtesy Audio | GDD-PAO | 02.12.2014
Col. Tom Blackstock talks to a WDUN-AM reporter about the National Guard assisting in winter storm relief in Georgia.
Courtesy Audio | GDD-PAO | 02.12.2014
Maj. Gen. James Butterworth
Maj. Gen. James Butterworth talks to a WAYA-FM reporter about the National Guard assisting in winter storm relief efforts in Georgia
Courtesy Audio | GDD-PAO | 02.12.2014
Maj. Gen. James Butterworth talks to a WAYA-FM reporter about the National Guard assisting in winter storm relief efforts in Georgia
Courtesy Audio | GDD-PAO | 02.12.2014
Georgia National Guard's response to the ice storm
Ashlie Shrewsbury, Atlanta, Ga., talks to the Weather Channel about the Georgia National Guard's response to the ice storm in the Atlanta area including helping...
Audio by Ashlie Shrewsbury | GDD-PAO | 01.30.2014
Ashlie Shrewsbury, Atlanta, Ga., talks to the Weather Channel about the Georgia National Guard's response to the ice storm in the Atlanta area including helping...
Audio by Ashlie Shrewsbury | GDD-PAO | 01.30.2014
Capt. Paul Bollinger
Veteran Marine Capt. Paul Bollinger from Milledgeville, Ga., talks with an Atlanta Journal Constitution Newspaper reporter for a Veteran Day Feature.
Audio by 1st Lt. Michael Beal | 48B-GNG | 11.03.2011
Veteran Marine Capt. Paul Bollinger from Milledgeville, Ga., talks with an Atlanta Journal Constitution Newspaper reporter for a Veteran Day Feature.
Audio by 1st Lt. Michael Beal | 48B-GNG | 11.03.2011
Recent Publications
- Combat action in Ghazni - 48th Warriors in Meimana fix pay for Gormach ANP - Georgia National Guard's long road home nearly complete
Operation Mountain Delivery; Task Force Geronimo forges new partnership with ANA; 48th mentors achieve counter- IED milestone; New school in local village •...
-Coalition and Afghan troops host 'contract rodeo' in Nangarhar - American and German Soldiers train Afghans - 48th IBCT NCOs and Warriors compete for top honors
- 1-108 CAV and ANSF hold security shura - Women's Police Corps training center opens - 48th IBCT and Afghan Army validate training
GUARD HISTORY December 1917 -1919/A look at Georgia Guardsmen deployed in December/ McChrystal calls Guard's effort 'extraordinary'/More troops likely to join Georgia...
- Afghan police and mentors improve Kabul security - Headquarters company Soldiers contribute to humanitarian role - ANA medics making progess
