48th Brigade prepares to deploy to Afghanistan

Members of the Georgia National Guard's 48th Brigade, based in Macon, have begun mobilizing to deploy to Afghanistan. The 48th is made up of smaller units spread across the state. The 108th squad from North Georgia was mobilized this week. Over the next four months several other units will be activated. About 75-percent of the Guard's 4-thousand soldiers will go to Afghanistan where they will help train Afghan national security forces. The 48th was last deployed to Iraq in May of 2005. Twenty-six of their soldiers died during that deployment.