GMC News

First day goes smoothly

First day of school at GMC goes smoothly By Payton Towns III – The Union-Recorder MILLEDGEVILLE – Cloudy skies and a threat of rain did not delay nor stop the first formation of the year at Georgia Military College Prep as students in the sixth through eighth grade and high school reported for the first […]

48th disrupts enemy

48th Brigade works to disrupt enemy patterns By Gray Beverley GEORGIA NEWS SERVICE YUSIFIYAH-NAHIA DISTRICT, Iraq – In June, the 48th Brigade Combat Team came across more than 75 enemy bombs. At a rate of more than two per day, improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, have exploded in the path of Georgia soldiers. Some were […]

Operation Mercer

Taking charge: 48th Brigade goes on offensive to root out insurgents By Gray Beverley GEORGIA NEWS SERVICE BABIL, Iraq – Over the Humvee loudspeaker came: Al-kwat Al-America … Forces of America É Ladiha mohoma fe hathhe al-montoka É have an operation in this neighborhood. Al rajaa al-baka beauticum É Please stay in your house. Infantry […]

Prep First Day Photos

On August 8, 2005, 475 Georgia Military College Prep School students reported for morning formation.

Craig ready

Craig ready for horse championships By Matthew Caldwell – The Union-Recorder MILLEDGEVILLE – Georgia Military College Prep school student Elizabeth Craig has had a busy summer. After placing high enough in three events during the state 4-H show in Perry in June, Craig qualified for the Southern Regional 4-H Horse Championships in Montgomery, Ala., which […]

Simpson Attends GA Rising

Georgia Military College student, Daniel Simpson, is one of only 24 college freshmen and sophomores throughout Georgia to be selected to participate in Georgia Rising, a leadership development program designed for college students. Georgia Rising focuses on three key elements of leadership development: broadening knowledge about the state of Georgia, heightening awareness of issues critical […]

GMC in Iraq

Sgt. David Bill 48th BCT Public Affairs Office Character Above All: GMC in Iraq This is the first part of a series on the cadets and alumni from Georgia Military College who are currently serving in Iraq. Future articles will focus on alumni and individual cadets throughout the 48th Brigade Combat Team. BAGHDAD – Since […]

Books to Troops

GMC Library sending books to troops in Iraq By Ross Couch – The Union-Recorder MILLEDGEVILLE – Sometime between 1957 and 1975, a United States helicopter pilot fighting in Vietnam found refuge from the war around him in the tales of the wild, wild west through the words of Louis L\’amour, commonly referred to as the […]

Boylans join forces

Boylans join forces for \’Fiddler\’ By Philip Gaffney – The Union-Recorder MILLEDGEVILLE – Age has no boundaries – there is a lively, youthful spirit in all of us. Just ask Peter and Kathy Boylan. Students on campus might see Peter as the \”stuffy, old president\” of Georgia Military College, but the community and students on […]

Mercer Loved America

Waycross Journal-Herald The death of Sgt. Chad Mercer in Iraq has cast a pall over the upcoming Fourth of July festivities planned in Waycross and throughout much of the Journal-Herald\’s readership area. But if this fine young soldier could speak to us he would simply say, \”I was doing what I wanted to do.\” As […]