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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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National Guard unit returns to Louisiana from Iraq

By Sgt. Noshoba Davis and Sgt. Garrett Dipuma, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office PINEVILLE, La. – Family, friends, and fellow Guardsmen in the Louisiana National Guard welcomed home over a combined 80 Troops of the 139th Regional Support Group at Jackson Barracks in New Orleans and Camp Beauregard in Pineville, Aug. 22. The Guardsmen

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La. Guard’s Infantry hones combat skills during exercise

By Sgt. Noshoba Davis, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office CAMP SHELBY, Miss. – Over 3,000 Soldiers from the Louisiana National Guard’s 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team participated in eXportable Combat Training Capability at Camp Shelby near Hattiesburg, July 14 – Aug. 3. XCTC is a National Guard program used to provide a similar experience

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La. Air Guard participates in unique combat training in Idaho

By Senior Airman Dane St. Pe, 159th Fighter Wing Public Affairs Office BOISE, Idaho – The Louisiana National Guard’s 159th Fighter Wing is participating in dissimilar air combat training with the Idaho National Guard’s 124th Fighter Wing at Gowen Field Air National Guard base in Boise, Idaho, July 13-27. DACT provides combat aircrews with a

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