By Staff Sgt. Michael J. Farrar, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office CARVILLE, La. – The Louisiana National Guard’s Youth Challenge Program (YCP) welcomed the First Lady of Louisiana, Donna Hutto Edwards to their campus at the Gillis W. Long Center in Carville, Sept. 7. Edwards learned about the YCP’s educational benefits to at-risk youth […]
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By Sgt. Renee Seruntine, 241st Mobile Public Affairs Detachment PINEVILLE, La. – The Louisiana National Guard hosted its first Fearless 5K & Health Expo at Fort Randolph and Buhlow State Historic Site in Pineville, on National Suicide Awareness Day, Sept 10. The community running event was created to increase suicide awareness and showcase veteran and
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By Sgt. Noshoba Davis, LANG Public Affairs PINEVILLE, La. – Almost 11 years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, southern Louisiana was again hit with historic flooding, Aug. 12-15. The flooding caused 13 deaths and damaged more than 60,000 homes. La. Air National Guard’s Airman 1st Class Rachel Randazzo, of New Orleans, was 17 when
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By 1st Sgt. Paul Meeker, 241st Mobile Public Affairs Detachment NEW ORLEANS – While performing search and rescue missions in the French Settlement area of Livingston Parish, two Louisiana Guardsmen rescued four citizens on Aug. 17 from fast-moving waters caused by more than two feet of rainfall that inundated southeast Louisiana beginning Friday evening, Aug.
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By Spc. Garrett L. Dipuma, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office BATON ROUGE, La. – Since being activated one week ago on Aug. 12, the Soldiers and Airmen of the Louisiana National Guard have been working tirelessly around the clock conducting several missions including evacuations, search and rescue missions, engineering missions, commodities distribution and security
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