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La. Guard aviation unit holds departure ceremony at Esler Army Airfield

Ceremony, Featured News, Louisiana Army National Guard, News Releases / By Duncan Foote / September 10, 2025

By Sgt. 1st Class Scott D. Longstreet, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office PINEVILLE – The Louisiana National Guard’s 204th Theater Aviation Operations Group bid farewell to family, friends and fellow service members during a departure ceremony held at the Army Aviation Support Facility at Esler Army Airfield in Pineville, La., on Sept. 6, […]

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La. National Guard mobilizes to support ICE

Featured News, Louisiana Air National Guard, Louisiana Army National Guard, News Releases / By Peter Drasutis / September 5, 2025

By Lt. Col. Noel Collins, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs NEW ORLEANS – The Louisiana National Guard federally mobilized select Soldiers and Airmen to support Immigration and Customs Enforcement at several locations in Louisiana beginning August 25, 2025. LANG Soldiers and Airmen are in a Title 32 status meaning that they remain under

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Louisiana National Guard’s 199th Brigade Support Battalion holds change of command ceremony

Ceremony, Featured News, News Releases / By Duncan Foote / September 3, 2025

By Sgt. 1st Class Scott D. Longstreet, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office PINEVILLE – The Louisiana National Guard’s 199th Brigade Support Battalion, 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, held an official change of command ceremony at the 199th BSB Armory in Alexandria, La., on August 23, 2025. During the ceremony, Lt. Col. Darby A.

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La. Guard’s Tiger Brigade Marks 20th Anniversary of Redeployment and Hurricane Response

Disaster Response, Featured News, History, Home Page, Louisiana Air National Guard, Louisiana Army National Guard, News Releases / By Peter Drasutis / August 28, 2025

NEW ORLEANS – This fall, the Louisiana National Guard’s 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, known as the Tiger Brigade, commemorates the 20th anniversary of its redeployment from Iraq in September 2005, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. After 18 months of federal mobilization, including combat training and deployment to Iraq,

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Louisiana Army National Guard commissions 16 new officers

Ceremony, Featured News, Louisiana Army National Guard, News Releases / By Duncan Foote / August 27, 2025

By Sgt. 1st Class Scott D. Longstreet, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office PINEVILLE, La. – Families, friends, mentors and fellow Soldiers filled the Post Theater at Camp Beauregard in Pineville, La., to watch as 16 officer candidates graduated from the Louisiana National Guard Officer Candidate School and were commissioned as second lieutenants on Aug.

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La. National Guard Military Police to assist in Washington, D.C.

Featured News, News Releases / By Duncan Foote / August 18, 2025

By Sgt. 1st Class Scott D. Longstreet, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office PINEVILLE – The Louisiana National Guard, as directed by the president of the United States, is federalizing and activating to Washington, D.C., to support the Metropolitan Police Department, the District of Columbia National Guard and D.C. local law enforcement beginning August 16,

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