U.S. National Guardsmen with the Marietta-based 201st Regional Support Group, Georgia Army National Guard, clean up the area of operations after Vigilant Guard 26-1 at Pelham Range Complex, Anniston, Alabama, Dec. 3, 2025. The Ga. Department of Defense conducts Vigilant Guard 26-1 to improve National Homeland Defense Readiness, by exercising the Ga. DoD Joint Forces Headquarters (JFHQ) to execute State/Territory Homeland Defense plans in a simulated environment, rehearse JFHQ interoperability with federal and civilian partners, in response to a complex, multi-domain attack. (U.S. Army National Guard video by Sgt. Jaylan Caulton)
Georgia National Guard Soldiers of the Thomasville-based 1230th Transportation Company mobilized to Fort Bliss, Texas, October 25, 2025, as part of US Northern Command and Joint Task Force North in support of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. This is the second border support mission for the 1230th which was previously deployed in October 2020.
The deployment of the 1230th is the latest chapter in the Georgia National Guard’s presence along the U.S. Mexico border. More than 3,000 of Georgia’s Citizen Soldiers mobilized to the border region from 1916-1917 from Noria New Mexico to Yselta, Texas. In 2006, More than 150 Georgia National Guard Soldiers participated in Operation Jump Start, a National Guard mission designed to...
Soldiers of the Georgia National Guard’s 1230th Transportation Company return home to Thomasville, Ga. May 31, 2014, after an 11-month deployment to Afghanistan.
