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Fallen New Roads Guardsmen immortalized with memorial

By Sgt. Garrett L. Dipuma, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office NEW ROADS, La. – The Louisiana National Guard’s A Company, 769th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, known as Iron Horse, unveiled a memorial dedicated to Sgt. Christopher Ramsey, Sgt. Michael Evans, Sgt. David Murray and Staff Sgt. Jonathan Reed at their […]

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Retired Louisiana Guard general honored for lifetime of military service

By Staff Sgt. Greg Stevens, 241st Mobile Public Affairs Detachment LAFAYETTE, La. – The Louisiana National Guard’s 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team and the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness honored retired Brig. Gen. Robert J. LeBlanc during a special ceremony at the 256th armory in Lafayette, April 14. Col. William Rachal, the

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Pelican Profile: SFC N'Kosi Campbell Docu Short

Meet Pelican Profile subject SFC N’Kosi Campbell, a successful MMA fighter. Campbell describes how his passion for teaching combatives to Soldiers in the Louisiana National Guard led to his new career in the ring.  Check it out!!!! [vc_video link=”http://youtu.be/0fEywQFLcwY” size=”950X400″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”]

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Pelican Profile: SFC N’Kosi Campbell Docu Short

Meet Pelican Profile subject SFC N’Kosi Campbell, a successful MMA fighter. Campbell describes how his passion for teaching combatives to Soldiers in the Louisiana National Guard led to his new career in the ring.  Check it out!!!! [vc_video link=”http://youtu.be/0fEywQFLcwY” size=”950X400″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”]

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Air Guard performs variety of hurricane response missions

By Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office PORT SULPHUR, La. – Every mission matters to Louisiana National Guardsmen and when tasked with helping to rebuild a small fishing community located in the mouth of the Mississippi River, the Airmen gladly stepped up to the challenge. For many in the Air Guard, the mission sets were

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Army Guard aviation drops super-sand bags to stop flooding

NEW ORLEANS – Louisiana Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters continue to drop 4,000-pound sandbags, Sept. 6, to prevent flooding from a levee breach in the Braithwaite area of Plaquemines Parish, La. To date, LANG air assets have flown more than 494.9 flight hours, moved more than 300 personnel, and transported more than 1

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