48th Brigade Honored With Parades

All across Middle Georgia people are gathering to send off soldiers heading to Afghanistan. The Georgia National Guards 48th brigade id being deployed to Afghanistan. They are expected to be gone for a year. While there they will help train Afghan Security Forces. Many of them will leave for training by the end of the week.
This week people in Dublin, Macon, and Forsyth are holding parades to give the soldiers a proper send off. The 48th is headquartered in Macon and organizers of the parade there are hoping people will line the streets and hang yellow ribbons.
This is the second time the 48th has been deployed since 2005. They returned home in 2006 having lost 26 members of the brigade in Iraq. The various battalions will deploy between now and the end of the summer.