DVIDS – News – Georgia Army Nationwide Guard’s OCS Program Commissions 8 Lieutenants

Eight officer candidates of the Georgia Army Nationwide Guard’s Georgia Navy Institute acquired their commissions as second lieutenants throughout a ceremony on the Clay Nationwide Guard Heart in Marietta, Ga. August 13, 2022. The ceremony marks the end result of 18 months of coaching by six of the officer candidates of the Georgia Navy Institute’s Officer Candidate College Class 61 whereas two accomplished the accelerated program.

The newly commissioned lieutenants will attend follow-on coaching of their department assignments earlier than returning to their items of project. For some, this can be their first unit exterior of fundamental fight coaching and OCS. Others have years of prior enlisted expertise from which to attract of their new assignments.

In the course of the commissioning ceremony, the brand new officers had been administered the oath of workplace and pinned with their new rank. Following custom, the brand new officers acquired their first salute from a person of their selecting.

Second Lieutenant Jakub Holmes swept the graduations awards receiving accolades for lecturers, management and bodily health. Holmes obtain Infantry-branch coaching and serve within the Lawrenceville-based Firm A, 2nd Battalion, 121st Infantry Regiment of the historic forty eighth Infantry Brigade Fight Crew.

The remaining graduates of OCS 61 are:

Second Lieutenant Romaine Elliott, Headquarters Firm, 148th Brigade Help Battalion.

Second Lieutenant Jeffery Evans, 876th Engineer Firm.

Second Lieutenant Nityamangala Grenham, Firm A, 1st Battalion 121st Infantry Regiment.

Second Lieutenant Charles Klingemann, Firm D, 2nd Battalion 121st Infantry Regiment.

Second Lieutenant Rebekah Larsen, Detachment 4, Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 118th Subject Artillery Regiment.

Second Lieutenant Elijah Layman, Headquarters Firm, 2nd Battalion 121st Infantry Regiment.

Second Lieutenant Benjamin Martin, 93rd Monetary Administration Help Firm.

The Georgia Navy Institute, a part of the Georgia Nationwide Guard’s 122nd Regional Coaching Institute, serves because the officer candidate faculty for the Georgia Army Nationwide Guard. The normal state Nationwide Guard OCS class commits to 18 months of coaching throughout drill weekends and two summer time annual coaching occasions.

As soon as accepted into the Georgia Nationwide Guard OCS program, candidates are subjected to a collection of educational challenges and arduous duties to check them each bodily and mentally. They practice within the lecturers of management in a classroom setting and take to the sector to be taught small unit ways and unit management. The rigorous program is designed to push officer candidates to their restrict.

The Georgia Navy Institute was based in 1851 in Marietta. The unique campus commissioned officers by way of 1864 when the institute was burned by advancing federal armies. Officers of the unique GMI fought in all theaters of the American Civil Conflict whereas the Cadet Battalion, comprised of GMI college students fought, from Resaca to Savannah earlier than surrendering at Augusta, Ga.

In 1891, GMI was resurrected and commissioned officers by way of 1898. These officers later served within the Spanish American Conflict and World Conflict I. The present GMI was organized in 1961 and has commissioned greater than 1,200 officers who went on to serve in Vietnam, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan. Alumni of GMI have risen to the very best ranges of management with two serving as Adjutant Common of Georgia.