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La. National Guard audio, quotes from press conference

NEW ORLEANS – The Louisiana National Guard held a press conference Wednesday afternoon to update the public on the helicopter accident that occurred last night in Florida at the Army Aviation Support Facility #1 in Hammond, Louisiana. Audio from the event can be found here: http://geauxguard.com/louisiana-national-guard-helicopter-accident-media-advisory/7183/ “Today, as you can imagine, is a tough day […]

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La. Guard trains Cyber Defense Incident Response Team

Around The State, Featured News, Louisiana Air National Guard, Louisiana Army National Guard, Missions, News Releases, Training / By Louisiana National Guard / March 10, 2015

By Sgt. Scott D. Longstreet, 241st Mobile Public Affairs Detachment BATON ROUGE, La. – Approximately 40 Louisiana National Guard Soldiers and Airmen with the state’s new Cyber Defense Incident Response Team (CDIRT) participated in a two-day training event at a newly constructed “Cyber Range” in Baton Rouge last month. The team was created to

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Special disaster team completes training, certified by DoD

Around The State, Disaster Response, Featured News, Louisiana Army National Guard, Missions, News Releases, Training / By Louisiana National Guard / January 30, 2015

By Sgt. David C. Kirtland 241st Mobile Public Affairs Detachment NEW ORLEANS – Louisiana National Guardsmen in the state’s special disaster-response team concluded a week of training with a final evaluation exercise in order to be certified by the Department of Defense, January 12-16, at the Camp Beauregard Range Complex in Pineville, Louisiana. The Guardsmen

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La. Guard’s aviation regiment hosts anti-terrorism exercise

Around The State, Featured News, Louisiana Army National Guard, Missions, News Releases, Training / By Louisiana National Guard / November 21, 2014

By Spc. Tarell J. Bilbo, State Public Affairs Office NEW ORLEANS – The Louisiana National Guard’s 1st Air Assault Battalion, 244th Aviation Regiment, conducted its annual anti-terrorism validation exercise in accordance with Department of Defense policy at the Army Aviation Support Facility in Hammond, La., Nov. 20. As part of the facility’s anti-terrorism plan, numerous

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Louisiana Guardsmen in Belize: Train to survive, live to tell

Featured News, Louisiana Army National Guard, Missions, News Releases / By Louisiana National Guard / August 8, 2014

By Staff Sgt. Denis B Ricou, State Public Affairs Office NEW ORLEANS – A platoon of Louisiana National Guardsmen travelled to Belize for two weeks of unique jungle warfare training with the Belize Defence Force last month, which also focused on building relationships between service members from the two nations. “This platoon-level operation was

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La. Air National Guard hosts air combat training exercise

Around The State, Featured News, Louisiana Air National Guard, Missions, News Releases, Training / By Louisiana National Guard / August 3, 2014

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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