By Sgt. 1st Class Paul Meeker 241st Mobile Public Affairs Detachment COVINGTON, La.– Members of the LANG’s 1021st Vertical Engineer Company, 225 Engineer Brigade, directed, supplied and staffed a Point of Distribution site at the St. Tammany Parish Fairgrounds during a Commodities Distribution Exercise, May 19. According to 1st Lt. Jesse Nelson and Staff Sgt. […]
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By Sgt. Rashawn D. Price 241st Mobile Public Affairs Detachment NEW ORLEANS – After more than 198,000 hours of training, Louisiana National Guardsmen in the state’s special disaster response team completed the final evaluation exercise to be certified by the Department of Defense at the Camp Beauregard Range Complex in Pineville, April 16-20. The LANG’s
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By Spc. Rashawn Price and Spc. Tarell Bilbo 241st Mobile Public Affairs Detachment NEW ORLEANS – The Louisiana National Guard participated in the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness two training exercises to test disaster response capabilities of several state, local and federal agencies at the Bonnet Carre Spillway in St. Charles Parish
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Louisiana National Guard drops recycled trees for marsh erosion project By Spc. David C. Kirtland Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office NEW ORLEANS – The Louisiana National Guard once again participated in the annual Christmas-tree drop at the Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge in eastern New Orleans, Mar 13. The LANG’s State Aviation
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NEW ORLEANS—The Louisiana National Guard is continuing to assist the Department of Agriculture and Forestry with its aerial firefighting operations in the Vivian area, Sept. 9, combating wildfires threatening 30 structures. Yesterday, at Gov. Bobby Jindal’s direction, the LANG deployed four UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters to begin water-drop operations using helibuckets—large buckets carrying water suspended
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Louisiana Army National Guard water-drop operations continue in Caddo Parish BATON ROUGE, La.—After successfully suppressing wildfires in Caddo Parish, Governor Bobby Jindal ordered the Louisiana National Guard to begin additional aerial firefighting operations in the Vivian area, Sept. 8. The LANG’s firefighting mission ended yesterday due to the containment of the fire and successful suppression
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