By Sgt. Rebekah Malone Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office PINEVILLE, La. – Two additional convoys of Louisiana National Guard trucks hauling 14 additional water trailers and another water tanker arrived in Ferriday to help combat the city’s severe water disruption, Aug. 29-30. The LANG resources, which now total 28 M149 Water Trailers and two […]
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La. Guardsmen depart for year-long deployment By Sgt. Robin Perry Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office WEST MONROE, La. – The Louisiana National Guard’s 1022nd Vertical Engineer Company, 527th Engineer Battalion, flew out of the Monroe Regional Airport for the first leg of their journey to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Aug. 18.
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By Sgt. 1st Class Paul Meeker, Task Force Bon Voizen Public Affairs, Louisiana Army National Guard NEW ORLEANS – “They are just like you and me, willing to do what it takes to make the world a better place.” This is how Louisiana Army National Guardsman Col. Kenneth Donnelly described the character of the Soldiers,
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By Sgt. Aaron LeBlanc Louisiana National Guard, Public Affairs Office NEW ORLEANS – Aviators from the Louisiana National Guard led the first overseas humanitarian training relief mission involving the Army’s newly fielded UH-72A Lakota helicopters during Task Force Bon Voizen – New Horizons Haiti 2011 from April through June. The new aircraft performed medical evacuations,
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La. National Guard provides top cover for law enforcement By Sgt. Rebekah Malone Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office HOUMA, La. – In the pre-dawn hours of July 27, helicopter pilots and crew chiefs from the Louisiana National Guard’s Counterdrug Task Force readied their equipment at the Army Aviation Support Facility in Pineville. The mission:
By Staff Sgt. Denis B. Ricou Louisiana National Guard, Public Affairs Office NEW ORLEANS Army Brig. Gen. Thomas E. Beron of Metairie said farewell to the Louisiana National Guard and military service during a retirement ceremony at The Orleans Club in New Orleans, May 26. Commissioned in 1984, Beron has served in numerous commands
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