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La. National Guard welcomes Bunkie unit home from Kuwait

By Spc. Cody Wolfgang Kellum, 241st Mobile Public Affairs Detachment NEW ORLEANS –The Louisiana National Guard welcomed home members of the 1086th Transportation Company, 165th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 139th Regional Support Group at their armory in Bunkie, April 14. The 1086th, which has detachments in Vidalia and Ville Platte, deployed more than 160 Soldiers […]

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West Monroe resident joins La. Guard’s chaplain corps

Around The State, Featured News, Louisiana Army National Guard, News Releases / By Louisiana National Guard / April 12, 2018

By Sgt. Noshoba Davis, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office PINEVILLE, La. – West Monroe resident 2nd Lt. Jimmy Snow was commissioned in the Louisiana National Guard at Camp Beauregard in Pineville, March 3 at 38 years old. Snow served in the Air Force Reserves as a mental health technician from 2000 – 2006 at

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YCP Graduation class 2017-2 Gillis W. Long Center

Guard Minute, Video / By Louisiana National Guard / March 29, 2018

BATON ROUGE, La. – The Louisiana National Guard’s Youth Challenge Program at Gillis W. Long Center graduated 215 cadets during a ceremony at Bethany Church – South in Baton Rouge at March 24, 2018. Congressman Ralph Abraham of the United States House of Representatives, District 5, will be present to address the graduates during the

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La. Guard helps combat coastal erosion in New Orleans

Featured News, Louisiana Army National Guard, News Releases, Training / By Louisiana National Guard / March 22, 2018

By Sgt. Garrett L. Dipuma, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office NEW ORLEANS – The Louisiana National Guard’s 1st Assault Helicopter Battalion, 244th Aviation Regiment and Forward Support Company, 205th Engineer Battalion supported the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service during the annual Christmas Tree Drop in the Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge in New Orleans

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LA Guard Minute Christmas Tree Drop 2018

Guard Minute / By Louisiana National Guard / March 22, 2018

Louisiana National Guardsmen from 1st Assault Helicopter Battalion, 244th Aviation Regiment drop bundles of recycled Christmas trees from a UH-60 Black Hawk into Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge in New Orleans East to help combat coastal erosion, March 14, 2018. The project has re-established hundreds of acres of marshland in the Bayou Sauvage NWR over

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Air National Guard announces 2017 Outstanding Airmen of the Year

Around The State, Featured News, Louisiana Air National Guard / By Louisiana National Guard / March 16, 2018

By Tech. Sgt. John E. Hillier, National Guard Bureau Public Affairs JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. — The Air National Guard command chief master sergeant announced the Air National Guard’s 2017 Outstanding Airmen of the Year. This year’s honorees, selected from the more than 91,000 enlisted women and men in the ANG, and represent the very best

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