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NGB vice chief participates in LANG YCP graduation

By Spc. Joshua Barnett, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office ALEXANDRIA, La. – Lt. Gen. Joseph L. Lengyel, vice chief of the National Guard Bureau, travelled to Louisiana for a graduation ceremony for the Camp Beauregard Youth Challenge Program in Alexandria, Saturday, June 14, 2014. The Louisiana National Guard Youth Challenge Program includes a 5-month residential […]

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La. Guard welcomes home Soldiers from overseas

NEW ORLEANS – The Louisiana National Guard’s 844th Engineer Company and 1021st Engineer Company returned home to family and friends during welcome-home events throughout the state,June 18. The 844th, based in Pineville, La., with two detachment locations in Ruston, La., and Monroe, La., deployed more than 160 Soldiers to Kuwait in support of Operation Enduring

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La. Guard’s 528th Engineer Battalion deploys to Kuwait

Family and friends bid farewell to deploying Soldiers By Spc. Joshua Barnett, 241st Mobile Public Affairs Detachment   NEW ORLEANS – Family and friends gathered at the University of Monroe’s Fant-Ewing Coliseum in Monroe, La., to say farewell to more than 150 members of the Louisiana National Guard’s 528th Engineer Battalion, June 3. The Soldiers

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La. Air National Guard promotes three enlisted leaders

By the 159th Fighter Wing Public Affairs Office NEW ORLEANS – The Louisiana National Guard’s 159th Fighter Wing promoted three Airmen to the rank of Chief Master Sergeant during ceremonies, May 17-18, at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans in Belle Chasse, Louisiana. Chief Master Sgts. Daryl Herty, vehicle maintenance superintendent; Stacey

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La. National Guard pins top Air Guard general officer

NEW ORLEANS – The Louisiana National Guard held a promotion ceremony for its La. Air National Guard (LAANG) top leader at the Jackson Barracks Museum in New Orleans, May 4.   Col. Charles Chappuis, the LANG’s assistant adjutant general-Air, was formally promoted to the rank of brigadier general and “pinned” the one-star insignia on his

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La. National Guard welcomes home Soldiers from overseas

BATON ROUGE, La. –Soldiers of the Louisiana National Guard’s 2228th Military Police Company, 773rd Military Police Battalion, returned to family and friends during a welcome-home event in Baton Rouge, La., May 2. The 2228th, based at Camp Beauregard in Pineville, La., returned from a 365-day deployment, with more than 130 Soldiers, from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,

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