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La. Guard selects top recruiter and section chief of the year

By Spc. Megan V. Zander, Louisiana National Guard Recruiting and Retention Command NEW ORLEANS – Louisiana National Guard recruiters Sgt. James Lancon of Sulphur, and Master Sgt. Richard McSpaddin of Madisonville, were respectively chosen as the top recruiter and section chief of the year during the annual Recruiting and Retention Command’s selection board at Jackson […]

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La Guard Minute 1020th Homecoming

More than 150 Soldiers with the Louisiana National Guard’s 1020th Engineer Company, 527th Engineer Battalion, 225th Engineer Brigade returned home after a nine-month deployment at Million Air Alexandria in Alexandria, Sept. 1. The Marksville-based unit was deployed to Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan to provide vertical construction operations to improve forward operating base conditions in support

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Marksville National Guard unit returns from overseas

By Spc. Anna Churco, 241st Mobile Public Affairs Detachment BATON ROUGE– More than 150 Soldiers with the Louisiana National Guard’s 1020th Engineer Company, 527th Engineer Battalion, 225th Engineer Brigade returned home after a nine-month deployment at Million Air Alexandria in Alexandria, Sept. 1. The Marksville-based unit was deployed to Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan to provide

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