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La. National Guard graduates new class of officers

PINEVILLE, La. – The Louisiana National Guard’s 199th Leadership Regiment held a graduation ceremony to commission 18 new officers at Camp Beauregard Theatre in Pineville, Aug. 16. The mission of Louisiana’s Officer Candidate School is to train, mentor and commission the future leaders of the Army National Guard. The 199th Leadership Regiment has conducted an […]

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La. Guard Airmen welcomed home following deployment

 By 2nd Lt Larissa Lambert, 159th Fighter Wing Public Affairs Office     KENNER, La. – Airmen from the 159th Security Forces Squadron, Louisiana Air National Guard, returned home from a five-month deployment during a welcome-home event in New Orleans, La., Aug 7. The Airmen were greeted by family, friends and co-workers when they arrived at

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La. Air National Guard hosts air combat training exercise

By Air Force 2nd Lt. Hampton Obier 159th Fighter Wing Public Affairs Office   NEW ORLEANS – The Louisiana Air National Guard’s 159th Fighter Wing just concluded their two-week Dissimilar Air Combat Training (DACT) with the 43rd Fighter Squadron, based in Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida, at the Naval Air Station-Joint Reserve Base (NAS

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La. Guard’s adjutant general inducted into Louisiana Justice Hall of Fame

  By Master Sgt. Toby M. Valadie Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office ANGOLA, La – Maj. Gen. Glenn H. Curtis, the adjutant general of the Louisiana National Guard, was inducted into the Louisiana Justice Hall of Fame at the Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum, in Angola, La., July 25, 2014. The hall of fame was

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Youth ChalleNGe Program provides more than just discipline

La. National Guard graduates earn 1,158 college credit hours in 22 weeks By 1st Lt. Rebekah Malone Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office PINEVILLE, La. – The partnership between the Louisiana National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program and Bossier Parish Community College, allowing cadets to receive credit for college classes taken during their enrollment at YCP,

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La. Guard YCP graduate receives $20,000 scholarship

Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office   NEW ORLEANS – Preston Ponder received a $20,000 scholarship from the National Youth Foundation at the Louisiana National Guard’s Youth ChalleNGe Program Gala in New Orleans, June 28.   Ponder is a graduate of the LANG’s Camp Minden YCP in Minden, La., and currently attends Louisiana Tech University

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