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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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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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La. Guardsman returns from deployment, surprises daughter at Kids’ AT

  NEW ORLEANS – Louisiana National Guardsman Staff Sgt. Jeremy Marks of the 844th Engineer Company, surprised his daughter, Leona, during this year’s Kids’ Annual Training Camp in Bunkie, La., June 19, 2014. “It just feels great to be home,” said Marks. “I just can’t wait to see my little girl again.” Marks, and others

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NGB vice chief participates in LANG YCP graduation

By Spc. Joshua Barnett, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office ALEXANDRIA, La. – Lt. Gen. Joseph L. Lengyel, vice chief of the National Guard Bureau, travelled to Louisiana for a graduation ceremony for the Camp Beauregard Youth Challenge Program in Alexandria, Saturday, June 14, 2014. The Louisiana National Guard Youth Challenge Program includes a 5-month residential

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La. Guard welcomes home Soldiers from overseas

NEW ORLEANS – The Louisiana National Guard’s 844th Engineer Company and 1021st Engineer Company returned home to family and friends during welcome-home events throughout the state,June 18. The 844th, based in Pineville, La., with two detachment locations in Ruston, La., and Monroe, La., deployed more than 160 Soldiers to Kuwait in support of Operation Enduring

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La. Guard’s 528th Engineer Battalion deploys to Kuwait

Family and friends bid farewell to deploying Soldiers By Spc. Joshua Barnett, 241st Mobile Public Affairs Detachment   NEW ORLEANS – Family and friends gathered at the University of Monroe’s Fant-Ewing Coliseum in Monroe, La., to say farewell to more than 150 members of the Louisiana National Guard’s 528th Engineer Battalion, June 3. The Soldiers

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