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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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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By 1st Lt. Rebekah Malone, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office PINEVILLE, La. – The Louisiana National Guard held a ceremony to celebrate the opening for the Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems Operations Facility (TUASOF) at Fort Polk in Leesville, Louisiana, Jan. 13. The unit’s primary mission is to support the Joint Readiness Training Center and
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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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By Sgt. Greg Stevens, 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team Public Affairs Representative CAMP NAVAJO, Ariz. – One Louisiana National Guardsman from the 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team recently earned the esteemed Expert Infantryman Badge at Camp Navajo in northern Arizona. Of the 135 that attempted, only six succeeded. Spc. Brian Smith with A Company, 2nd
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PINEVILLE, La. – The Louisiana National Guard’s 199th Leadership Regiment held a graduation ceremony to commission 18 new officers at Camp Beauregard Theatre in Pineville, Aug. 16. The mission of Louisiana’s Officer Candidate School is to train, mentor and commission the future leaders of the Army National Guard. The 199th Leadership Regiment has conducted an
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