Thu., May 23, 2013 7:21am (EDT)

Articles Tagged "deployment"

  • Fri., February 1, 2013 1:00pm
    About 2,200 soldiers from Fort Stewart will be heading to Afghanistan in the coming weeks. Fort Stewart officials say the departing soldiers have been training for the deployment since July. They completed a month-long mission readiness exercise at Fort Polk, La., in November.
  • Tue., December 4, 2012 11:00am
    A group of Army soldiers from Fort Stewart is returning home from Afghanistan in time to spend the holiday season with their families. About 200 soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment were scheduled to arrive Tuesday after spending the past nine months deployed overseas.
  • Mon., November 12, 2012 7:28am
    This Veteran’s Day we honor those who have sacrificed for our country. The Georgia National Guard is working on helping those returning from deployment and their families.
  • Wed., October 10, 2012 7:46am
    Army soldiers from Fort Stewart are returning home to Georgia from their first deployment to Afghanistan. About 100 soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment were scheduled to arrive home Wednesday after a 9-month tour.
  • Wed., January 4, 2012 12:37pm
    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.
  • Mon., April 4, 2011 9:12am
    A new initiative aims to help combat veterans transition to civilian life. It will be based at Callaway Gardens near Columbus, and the idea is to bring service members and their families for recreation and counseling to help with the return from combat. The program’s creators say they’re trying to reduce record levels of divorce in the military and a suicide rate four times that of the civilian population.
  • Mon., December 6, 2010 4:36pm
    A unit of the Georgia Army National Guard has been deployed to Afghanistan.
  • Thu., October 15, 2009 8:58pm
    The 202nd's fourth deployment comes as fighting in Afghanistan intensifies.
  • Wed., October 7, 2009 3:52pm
    Deployment of 300 troops next week comes during deadliest period in the eig
  • Mon., October 5, 2009 9:02am
    The Third Infantry Division’s Combat Aviation Brigade is sending troops and