Staff Sgt. Gerard Brown, a full-time readiness NCO at Clay National Guard Center in Marietta, Ga., helps Angela Morgan, a registered nurse at Grady Memorial Hospital’s labor and delivery department, into a National Guard humvee. Brown is part of the National Guard team working to help transport snowbound Grady staff to the hospital

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Interviews with Georgia Guard personnel during winter storm response.

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GEORGIA STATE PATROL POST 43, Calhoun, Ga., Jan. 11, 2011 – Specialist Joshua Lee Cloer of Adairsville, a fire support technician with Calhoun’s Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 1-108th Cavalry (Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition), reviews a map as Georgia State Patrol Corporal Shan Burnette explains the route upon which they are about to patrol.

Lieutenant Col. Matthew J. Saxton, Commander of the 1-108th Squadron, explains why the Georgia Guard is assisting the State Patrol, “The Georgia Army National Guard is assisting public safety and emergency management officials across the affected areas of Georgia. Our Squadron, as part of those efforts, has personnel from various cities and towns in Northwest Georgia assisting the Georgia State Patrol in Murray and Gordon counties by providing transportation in our High Mobility Multi-purpose Wheel Vehicles to assist drivers and respond to other public safety calls.”

“Operation Patriot Winter” officially began on Saturday, Jan. 8, 2010. Within hours of a request by the Georgia State Patrol on Monday afternoon, four drivers and vehicles – three in Gordon County and one in Murray County – were enabling State Troopers to reach areas that were otherwise inaccessible with their patrol vehicles, helping to reduce response times.

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The Adjutant General of Georgia, Maj. Gen. William T. Nesbitt meets with Georgia Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security Director Charley English to discuss how the National Guard can assist GEMA in the winter storm that blew through Metro Atlanta and North Georgia Sunday evening dropping between five and twelve inches of snow and ice.

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Staff Sgt. Gerard Brown, a full-time readiness NCO at Clay National Guard Center in Marietta, Ga., walks Angela Morgan, a registered nurse at Grady Memorial Hospital’s labor and delivery department, from her Kennesaw home to a waiting humvee. Brown is part of the National Guard team working to help transport snowbound Grady staff to the hospital.

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