Ceremony – Page 27 – Louisiana National Guard

La. National Guard’s ‘Steel Lightning’ welcomes new leader

Ceremony, Command, Featured News, Louisiana Army National Guard / By Louisiana National Guard / November 9, 2016

By Sgt. Noshoba Davis, 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team Public Affairs Representative ERATH, La. –The Louisiana National Guard’s 2nd Battalion, 156th Infantry Regiment, 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team welcomed Lt. Col. Scott Desormeaux as their new commander during an official change of command ceremony at Erath High School in Erath, Nov. 6. Desormeaux, a resident […]

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‘Shoulder to Shoulder’

Ceremony, Featured News, Louisiana Air National Guard, Louisiana Army National Guard, State Partnership Program / By Louisiana National Guard / November 4, 2016

By MSgt. Sgt. Toby Valadie, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Specialist NEW ORLEANS – For 20 years now, the Louisiana National Guard and the Belize Defence Force have trained together and learned from each other as part of a program administered by the National Guard Bureau called the State Partnership Program. On Nov. 4, Maj.

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La. National Guard honors a servant to state, country

Ceremony, Featured News, Louisiana Army National Guard, Retirement / By Louisiana National Guard / September 30, 2016

By Sgt. Renee Seruntine, 241st Mobile Public Affairs Detachment NEW ORLEANS – A long-serving Louisiana National Guard officer was honored for his distinguished service during a retirement ceremony witnessed by family, friends and fellow service members at Jackson Barracks in New Orleans, Aug. 6. Col. Douglas Mouton enlisted in the LANG in 1983, at age

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La. Guard’s infantry brigade gains engineer assets

Ceremony, Featured News, Louisiana Army National Guard / By Louisiana National Guard / September 28, 2016

By Spc. Garrett L. Dipuma, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office NEW ORLEANS – In an official ceremony at the Armed Forces Reserve Center in Baton Rouge, the Louisiana National Guard’s 256th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (IBCT) was deactivated. In the same ceremony, the 769th Engineer Battalion, 225th Engineer Brigade transformed

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La. Guard opens new readiness center

Ceremony, Featured News, Louisiana Army National Guard / By Louisiana National Guard / September 27, 2016

Spc. Garrett Dipuma, Louisiana National Guard NEW ORLEANS – The Louisiana National Guard held an official ribbon cutting ceremony for a new readiness center in Franklinton, Sept. 23. The new state-of-the art center was completed July 15. It covers more than 30,000 square feet and cost roughly $13.5 million to build. The readiness center will

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Louisiana National Guard honors former adjutant general

Ceremony, Featured News, Funeral, Louisiana Army National Guard / By Louisiana National Guard / July 7, 2016

By 1st Lt. Rebekah Malone and Sgt. Noshoba Davis, LANG Public Affairs Office SHREVEPORT, La. – Retired Maj. Gen. Ansel ‘Buddy’ M. Stroud Jr., former adjutant general of the Louisiana National Guard, was laid to rest with military honors at the Forest Park Cemetery in Shreveport, July 7. Stroud passed away at the age of

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