By Tech. Sgt. Sienna M. Schehr 159th Fighter Wing Public Affairs Office BELLE CHASSE, La. – The Louisiana Air National Guard’s 159th Fighter Wing hosted 40 foreign ambassadors, their spouses, and State Department staff members at the Naval Air Station, Joint Reserve Base, New Orleans for a day of briefings and aerial tour of the […]
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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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By Sgt. Rebekah Malone Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office PINEVILLE, La. – Members of the Louisiana Air National Guard’s 259th Air Traffic Control Squadron flipped the switch on the new ground control approach system at the Alexandria International Airport in Alexandria, Aug. 10. In 1997 the LANG’s 259th ATCS took over operations of the
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BATON ROUGE, La.—At the direction of the Governor, the Louisiana National Guard began assisting the city of New Orleans with aerial firefighting in the marshes of the Bayou Sauvage area, Aug. 30. By sunset Tuesday, Guard helicopters dropped more than 116,000 gallons of water over small fires just north of Highway 90 and east of
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By Tech. Sgt. Sienna M. Schehr 159th Fighter Wing Unit Public Affairs Representative ALEXANDRIA, La. More than 50 members of the 159th Security Forces Squadron participated in a week long, action-packed annual training exercise at Camp Beauregard in Pineville, July 11-15, allowing the Airmen an opportunity to practice their primary expeditionary duties. My goal
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