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Posted: 4:15 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013

NE Ga Guard unit now in Mississippi

By Tim Bryant

They are now at Camp Shelby in Mississippi: some 240 Georgia Guard members shipped out from Elberton Tuesday, beginning a deployment that could lead to a 12-month stay in Afghanistan. Guard units from Elbert, Barrow, McDuffie, and Burke counties comprise the Granite Battalion.

 
 
 

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