Louisiana National Guard

Plaquemine National Guard unit deploys to Iraq

By Staff Sgt. Josiah Pugh, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office NEW ORLEANS, La. – Friends, families and community members gathered to bid farewell to the Louisiana National Guard’s 832nd Engineer Detachment, 528th Engineer Battalion, 225th Engineer Brigade, during a deployment ceremony at the Carl F. Grant Civic Center in Plaquemine, July 31. More than […]

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2019 DRX Guard Minute

The Louisiana National Guard and the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness coordinated with 48 federal, state and local partners from around the state in an annual disaster response exercise designed to test and reinforce the capabilities and cohesive action between various government and non-governmental agencies, April 5-7.

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La. Guard, local agencies practice disaster readiness

By Spc. Cody Wolfgang Kellum, 241st Mobile Public Affairs Detachment NEW ORLEANS — The Louisiana National Guard and the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness coordinated with 48 federal, state and local partners from around the state in an annual disaster response exercise designed to test and reinforce the capabilities and cohesive action

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La. Guard aviators deliver late Christmas gifts, fight erosion

The Louisiana National Guard’s A Company, 1st Assault Helicopter Battalion, 244th Aviation Regiment supported the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service during the annual Christmas Tree Drop in the Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge in New Orleans East, March 28.   During the operation, LANG aviators hooked up and dropped bundles of recycled Christmas trees provided

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La. Guard aviators deliver late Christmas gifts, fight erosion

By Staff Sgt. Garrett L. Dipuma, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office NEW ORLEANS – The Louisiana National Guard’s A Company, 1st Assault Helicopter Battalion, 244th Aviation Regiment supported the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service during the annual Christmas Tree Drop in the Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge in New Orleans East, March 28. During

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First junior enlisted in La. Guard earns Ranger tab, jump wings

By Sgt. Noshoba Davis, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office PINEVILLE, La. – “It’s exciting on one hand to be able to claim that I am the first junior enlisted in the Louisiana Guard to have done this, but at the same time surprising,” said Spc. William Gondy, an infantryman with A Company, 3rd Battalion,

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