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The Savannah Tribune • Wednesday, December 9, 2009 - 7
SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY NEWS
3rd Combat Aviation Brigade Arrives
in Afghanistan
Stewart to Receive MBA Degree
Soldiers from the 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade present their colors during
a transfer of authority ceremony at Bagram Airfield. (Photo by Spc.
Monica K. Smith, 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade Public Affairs)
BAGRAM AIRFIELD,
Afghanistan — Soldiers
from the 3rd Infantry
Division's Combat Aviation
Brigade uncased their colors
in a transfer of authority cer
emony at Bagram Airfield,
Nov. 24.
The 3rd Infantry
Division is a world-
renowned fighting organiza
tion that is known for two
things: starting a fight, and
finishing one," said Col. Don
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Galli, commander of the 3rd
CAB.
The majority of Soldiers
from the 3rd CAB, or Task
Force Falcon, based out of
Hunter Army Airfield in
Savannah, Ga., began arriv
ing in late summer in support
of Operation Enduring
Freedom.
"[The 159th CAB has]
served our Nation and the
cause of freedom in
Afghanistan with honor and
you have added to the legend
of the 101st Airborne
Division, Air Assault," Galli
said. "Your brigade has set
the standard by which all of
Army Aviation will be meas
ured. Today, as we transfer
authority from Task Force
Thunder to Task Force
Falcon, the records we seek
to break are yours."
Though the majority of
the brigade arrived in
November, components of
the brigade began deploying
from Hunter Army Airfield as
early as September.
"All National Guard
units have a deployment
cycle of 12-months long,
including their mobilization
time, which results in about
nine months in country
before having to go home,"
said 3rd CAB Command Sgt.
Maj. Richard Stidley.
"Because their cycle is
off from the CAB, we sent
out our MEDEVAC
Company ahead to take on
the missions of the outgoing
National Guard MEDEVAC
company."
The 3rd CAB is organ
ized by four multifunctional
task forces comprised of UH-
60 Black Hawk helicopters
and MedEvac helicopters,
AH-64D Apache Longbow
attack helicopters, CH-47D
Chinook helicopters and the
OH-58 Kiowa Warriors.
This deployment
marks the brigade's fourth
deployment since 2003 in
support of an Era of
Persistent Conflict. The
brigade's previous deploy
ments were during the initial
campaign into Iraq in 2003,
OIF III in 2005 and OIF V in
2007.
To Ensure
Triumph, It
Takes Us All!
Kim-Nee Janese Stewart
Kim-Nee Janese Stewart, a
1998 graduate of Beach High
School, and a 2002 graduate
of Georgia Southern
University is now a candidate
for graduation from the MBA
program at Savannah State
University to be held on
Saturday, December 12, 2009
at 10:00 a.m.
She is the daughter of
Michael and Sharon Stewart,
both graduates of Beach High
and sister to Briana Stewart,
also a graduate of Beach
High School and the auntie to
two year old Mikael.
She is the granddaugh
ter of the late Mr. Radford
and Louise Stewart and the
late Mr. Emmett Stewart and
surviving grandmother Mrs.
Izetta Stewart.
Kim has always been a
go getter. The early learning
instilled in her by so many
positive people has landed
her to this point in her life.
She is one who believes
whatever your hands find to
do do it will all your might.
She is currently
employed for the last six
years at Department of Driver
Services on Eisenhower
Drive, as well part time with
Eckerds Rite-Aid on
Abercom Street.
Kim, your family,
friends and Athens Church
family extend congratula
tions to you on a job well
done and we bid you God
speed in your future endeav
ors.
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