NGCSU natonal guard unit being activated

DAHLONEGA - The new Georgia Army National Guard detachment established at North Georgia College & State University (NGCSU) in January will be activated in a military review ceremony March 11 on the Owen Drill Field
at 4:00.

The adjutant general of Georgia, Maj. Gen. David Poythress will be the guest speaker and reviewing officer at the activation ceremony.
Poythress is in charge of Georgia's more than 11,000 Army and Air National Guard soldiers.

The National Guard detachment, described as "unique" by guard and school officials, and named the Cooperative Cadet Training Program, trains those North Georgia cadets, who are
also members of the National Guard, at the university for half of the soldiers' duty weekends during the year. The cadets perform the rest of their military obligations with their regularly assigned units.

"This unit is designed to enhance the leadership of National Guard soldiers and keep them in the National Guard once they commission as officers," said Maj. Ben Sartain, NGCSU's National Guard liaison.

North Georgia College & State University is a public, co-educational, liberal arts university, as well as the Military College of Georgia - one of only six senior military colleges in the nation.