Louisiana Air National Guard

Youth ChalleNGe Program provides more than just discipline

La. National Guard graduates earn 1,158 college credit hours in 22 weeks By 1st Lt. Rebekah Malone Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office PINEVILLE, La. – The partnership between the Louisiana National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program and Bossier Parish Community College, allowing cadets to receive credit for college classes taken during their enrollment at YCP, […]

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La. Guard YCP graduate receives $20,000 scholarship

Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office   NEW ORLEANS – Preston Ponder received a $20,000 scholarship from the National Youth Foundation at the Louisiana National Guard’s Youth ChalleNGe Program Gala in New Orleans, June 28.   Ponder is a graduate of the LANG’s Camp Minden YCP in Minden, La., and currently attends Louisiana Tech University

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La. Guardsman returns from deployment, surprises daughter at Kids’ AT

  NEW ORLEANS – Louisiana National Guardsman Staff Sgt. Jeremy Marks of the 844th Engineer Company, surprised his daughter, Leona, during this year’s Kids’ Annual Training Camp in Bunkie, La., June 19, 2014. “It just feels great to be home,” said Marks. “I just can’t wait to see my little girl again.” Marks, and others

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Louisiana provides a common link to Puerto Rico and Mississippi

By: Master Sgt. Toby M. Valadie 159th Fighter Wing Public Affairs Office AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico – The Louisiana Air National Guard’s 236th Combat Communications Squadron (CBCS) held their 2014 annual training in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico (formerly Ramey Air Force Base) this month. The unit’s mission was to provide satellite communication links between the Puerto Rico

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La. Guard Youth Leadership Camp trains tomorrow’s leaders

By 1st Sgt. Paul Meeker, Louisiana National Guard Reintegration Office BUNKIE, La. – This year’s Louisiana National Guard Youth Leadership Camp held June 11-15 at the Cecil J. Picard Educational and Recreational Center in Bunkie marks the tenth year of the LANG’s commitment to training young men and women for leadership roles in their communities,

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La. Air National Guard conducts Operation Coronet Blue exercise

Bayou Militia deploys 700 Airmen to Mississippi for annual training   By Air Force 2nd Lt Larissa Lambert 159th Fighter Wing Public Affairs Office   More than 700 Airmen from the Louisiana Air National Guard’s 159th Fighter Wing completed annual training at the Combat Readiness Training Center in Gulfport, Miss., June 6. This is the

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