The 78th Troop Command conducted a change of responsibility ceremony at the Clay National Guard Center, Marietta, Georgia, October 19, 2025. U.S. Army Command Sgt. Maj. Clint E. Cowser took responsibility of 78th Troop Command from Command Sgt. Maj. Brandon Cook, the outgoing senior enlisted leader of the 78th Troop Command, Georgia Army National Guard. The ceremony symbolized the transfer of responsibility from the outgoing to incoming sergeant major. (U.S. Army National Guard video from Sgt. Ehron Ostendorf and Spc. Alexandria Amos)
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.
