GEORGIA ARMY NATIONAL GUARD ELEMENT, JOINT FORCE HEADQUARTERS
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Crest


Description/Blazon
That for regiments and separate battalions of the Georgia Army National Guard:  From a wreath of colors, a boar's head erased Gules, in the mouth an oak branch Vert fructed Or.

Symbolism
The red boar's head with green oak branch and yellow acorns was the crest of Sir James Oglethorpe, the founder of the colony.  The boar is the heraldic symbol of courage and ferocity in attack and the boar's head is the classical symbol of hospitality.

Background
The crest was approved on 20 March 1922.





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