48th IBCT Returns from
4th Combat Deployment
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Brigade Combat Team have returned home from
deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation
Resolute Support since the beginning of July 2019.
“Soldiers, we are so proud of you and all you have done on this
deployment,” said Maj. Gen. Tom Carden, Adjutant General of
the Georgia National Guard. “To the families, you do not hear it
More than 2,100 Soldiers of the 48th IBCT representing units
from across the state deployed in December of 2018.
The command team of the 48th IBCT steered the brigade
through a rigorous training regimen that has included an
eXportable Combat Training Capability rotation at Fort Stewart,
Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, Louisiana. Over the past
four weeks, the 48th has trained alongside counterparts from the
3rd Infantry Division at Fort Stewart. Training has consisted of
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operations in which helicopters of the 3rd ID Combat Aviation
The units that comprise the 48th IBCT have histories that
predate the United States of America. Its units have served in
the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Seminole Indian
War, the Mexican War, and the Civil War. Units of the 48th IBCT
mustered for the Spanish American War and served in the 42nd
Division in World War I. The 121st Infantry Regiment served in
the European Theater during World War II, while the predecessors
World War II.
The 48th Infantry Brigade was activated in 1990 for Desert
The Georgia National Guard welcomed home another
were reunited with family and friends in a homecoming
ceremony at Fort Stewart’s Cottrell Field, July 16, 2019.
(U.S. Army National Guard photos by Sgt. Shye Wilborn)