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The Georgia Department of Defense hosted a visitation from the Fielding Lewis chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution Oct. 27, 2021, at Clay National Guard Center in Marietta, Georgia.
The civic group tour strengthened an already established relationship between the two organizations.
The tour began with a visit at the memorial wall outside of the state headquarters building. Here, U.S. Army Maj. William Carraway, historian of the Georgia National Guard, gave explanations of the Soldiers enshrined on the wall.
The memorial wall enshrines 43 Georgia Army National Guard Soldiers that died while serving overseas during the Global War on Terrorism.
Next, the tour took a short walk to the Dobbins Chapel. The chapel originally sat on Dobbins Air Reserve Base when constructed in 1945. In 2013, the chapel relocated to its current location at Clay National Guard Center.
The Daughters of the American Revolution chapter considers the chapel an important historical site, and rededicated the chapel in March 2021.
Following the chapel, the visitation group toured the Georgia National Guard joint operations center and received an information briefing U.S. Army Lt. Col. Pervis Brown, the officer-in-charge of the JOC.
“There’s so many people across the state that they know the [Georgia National] Guard, but they don’t know everything about what the Guard adds to citizens of the state,” Brown said. “We’re in the communities, we have vested interest in success of communities because we are neighbors.”
To end the tour, the group rode busses to one of the hangars on Clay National Guard Center to view static displays of Georgia National Guard vehicles and equipment.
“We have learned more information than I can ever dream about the Georgia National Guard does,” said Linda Killebrew Lopez, regent of the Fielding Lewis chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. “The helicopters, the equipment, the operations center, I had no idea all of this went on. I really appreciate much more all of the work that the National Guard does now.”
The Georgia National Guard is steeped in tradition and heritage that predate the American Revolution and founding of the U.S.
Georgia’s first organized militia unit, the Georgia Hussars, mustered in February 1736.
Today, the oldest, still active Georgia Guard unit is the Savannah-based Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 118th Field Artillery Regiment.
The unit formed in April 1751 as the Chatham Artillery, and fought in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Seminole Wars, American Civil War, World War I, World War II and the Global War on Terrorism having deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan.
On Dec. 13, the Georgia National Guard will host a ceremony celebrating the 385th anniversary of founding of the National Guard. The National Guard’s birthday centers on the formation of the first militia units of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636, celebrating the colonial roots of the National Guard.
| Date Taken: | 10.27.2021 |
| Date Posted: | 10.27.2021 15:36 |
| Story ID: | 408146 |
| Location: | MARIETTA, GEORGIA, US |
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