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Wed., February 1, 2012 6:45pm
Nearly 700 Ft. Stewart soldiers are getting ready to say goodbye to their families before leaving for their first deployment to Afghanistan. Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment held a ceremony Wednesday to pack the unit's battle flag, a symbol that the troops and their flag will soon be heading overseas.
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Mon., January 30, 2012 6:00am
Around Georgia’s nine military bases, companies that cater to the military are bracing for millions of dollars in Defense Department budget cuts. President Obama will release a budget next month that’s likely to include $500 million in cuts to the Defense Department.
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Tue., January 24, 2012 5:01pm
Military officials say the Army is expanding its hospital at Fort Stewart for the first time since it was completed more than three decades ago. The Savannah Morning News reports that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District broke ground on the $23.1 million expansion of Winn Army Community Hospital on Monday. It's expected to be completed in September 2013.
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Thu., January 19, 2012 4:36pm
Fort Stewart's top general and his command staff of about 700 soldiers have received orders to deploy to Afghanistan by late summer. Officials at the southeast Georgia Army post said Thursday that commander Maj. Gen. Robert A. Abrams and his headquarters battalion from the 3rd Infantry Division are expected to deploy in August.
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Wed., January 4, 2012 11:37am
The Army says it plans to deploy about 1,600 soldiers stationed in southeast Georgia to Afghanistan later this year. The announcement came from Fort Stewart, which says it will deploy two battalions from its 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team. No other units in the division have received deployment orders.
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Sat., September 10, 2011 8:17am
Children of American military families who were just youngsters during the 9/11 terror attacks say growing up in wartime has helped shape the adults they're becoming. The Associated Press interviewed some of those who grew up with one or both parents deployed and facing dangers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Mon., August 29, 2011 7:55am
Georgia is lending a hand in the emergency recovery and cleanup effort from the effects of Hurricane Irene along the East Coast. Over the weekend, Fort Stewart sent nine of its Black Hawk helicopters to New York state. And Georgia Power and Georgia EMC's sent crews up the East Coast to help in restoring electricity in affected.
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Tue., April 12, 2011 3:37pm
Three members of Congress from Georgia are pressing the Army to make Fort Stewart the new home of a combat brigade that the Pentagon plans to move from Germany back to the U.S. in 2015.
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Thu., January 20, 2011 3:43pm
The US Army is using a study involving 21,000 soldiers at Ft. Stewart to implement new mental health policies. Psychiatrists gave a group of Georgia-based soldiers additional mental health screenings before deploying to Iraq. Army psychiatrists says, incidents of mental health problems went down by about half among soldiers who got the additional screening.
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Fri., January 14, 2011 9:24am
Fort Stewart will soon relieve military police of their responsibilities for making traffic stops and writing tickets on two state highways cutting through the southeast Georgia Army post.
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