2011 Timeline
National Guard helps Georgia fight wildfires
Georgia’s YCA Celebrates 10,000th Graduate March 5, 2011 – Fort Gordon’s YCA campus graduates Georgia’s 10,000th Youth ChalleNGe cadet, an achievement previously reached by only two other states.
Guard welcomes home intelligence team from Kosovo April 7, 2011 – Thirtytwo intelligence analysts from the 221st Military Intelligence Battalion’s first All-source Collection Element return from their yearlong deployment in support of Kosovo Forces (KFOR 13).
Guard supports communities during winter storm
116th ACW receives 15th Outstanding Unit Award
116th deployed to aid Libya
Jan. 13, 2011 – Guardsmen from across the state lend a helping hand to GEMA and other state agencies during the emergency response to one of the worst winters to hit Georgia in decades.
Feb. 24, 2011 – The Georgia Air National Guard’s 116th Air Control Wing, based at Robins Air Force Base, earns its 15th Air Force Outstanding Unit Award.
March 25, 2011 – Aircraft and personnel from the Georgia Air National Guard’s 116th Air Control Wing deploy to support operations over Libya.
June 17, 2011 – CitizenSoldiers and -Airmen work side-by-side with the Forestry Commission, using military heavy earth moving bulldozers to widen the fire breaks and preparing to react to any flare-ups that might occur, and flying helicopters from Detachment 1, Company B, 1-169th Aviation, to drop water over the wildfires.
NATO Secretary General visits, praises Georgia National Guard May 9, 2011 – The Georgia National Guard plays host to NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who took time to honor Georgia Army and Air Guardsmen for their service with NATO forces in the Global War on Terror, as well as for their work with the nation of Georgia since 1995 through the State Partnership Program.
Jan. | | | | Feb. | | | | March | | | | April | | | | May | | | | June | | | | 4th CST Participates in Bioterrorism Exercise Feb. 8, 2011 – The 4th Civil Support Team, based in Marietta, participates in Operation Vigilant Sample III, a weeklong bioterrorism response exercise at Fort Detrick.
Georgia Guardsmen work with Ugandan troops 190th MPs return home
165th Airlift Wing deploys for ninth time Jan. 7, 2011 – In its largest ever deployment of aircraft and personnel, the 165th Airlift Wing sends six C-130 aircraft and more than 100 flight operations and maintenance personnel to Afghanistan for a three-month stint at Bagram Air Base.
Jan. 10, 2011 – The 190th Military Police Company comes home after a yearlong deployment to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, where the company’s primary job was to provide security for the base detention center along its guard towers and various entry control points. The unit later picked up the additional task of escorting detainees to and from the center; and the 190th served as part of the base’s immediate response force, protecting the area in which it resided in the event of an attack.
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April 22, 2011 – Soldiers from the Uganda Peoples Defense Forces and the Georgia Army National Guard train and live together in the bush north of Soroti as part of Atlas Drop 11, an annual exercise sponsored by U.S. Army Africa to increase the capability of both UPDF and U.S. forces to resupply Soldiers operating in remote areas. Georgia Airmen excel at Navajo Nation reservation in Arizona June 27, 2011 – Forty-six Airmen from the 116th Civil Engineering Squadron take their skills to Window Rock, Ariz., to participate in a two-week, ongoing construction project at St. Michaels Association for Special Education on a Navajo Nation reservation.