Training

Louisiana Guard cyber warriors train tirelessly to defend U.S. on the web

By Sgt. Garrett L. Dipuma, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office NEW ORLEANS – Louisiana Guardsman, Sgt. Austin Rome, looks down at a row of laptops arranged in front of him during Exercise Cyber Shield 17, a training exercise that involves 850 Soldiers and Airmen from more than 42 states and territories, several state and […]

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Louisiana National Guard’s cyber team travels to Utah for exercise

By Sgt. Garrett L. Dipuma, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office BLUFFDALE, Utah – The Louisiana National Guard’s Cyber Defense Incident Response Team and Defense Cyber Operations Element are training in support of Cyber Shield 17 at Camp W.G. Williams in Bluffdale, to hone their cyber defense skills, April 23 – May 6. Cyber Shield

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Deployed La. Air National Guardsmen participate in Frisian Flag exercise

By Senior Airman Cindy Au, 159th Fighter Wing Public Affairs Office BELLE CHASSE, La. — Nearly 300 Airmen and 12 F15C Eagles from the Louisiana Air National Guard’s 159th Fighter Wing that are deployed to Leeuwarden Air Base, Netherlands in their role as a Theater Security Package, recently participated in exercise Frisian Flag in support

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La. National Guard practices disaster readiness

By Sgt. 1st Class Sharon Mock, 241st Mobile Public Affairs Detachment NEW ORLEANS – Soldiers and Airmen with the Louisiana National Guard and nearly 200 civilian partners participated in an annual statewide disaster response exercise (DRX) designed to test and reinforce the capabilities and cohesive action between various local, state, federal and non-governmental agencies, April

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La. Guard’s special disaster team ready to respond

By Staff Sgt. David C. Kirtland, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office          NEW ORLEANS – The Louisiana National Guard’s special disaster-response team concluded three days of training with a final evaluation exercise to maintain its Department of Defense certification at the Joint Emergency Services Training Center in Zachary, Jan 4-7. More than 200 LANG Soldiers

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La. Guard Soldiers support Orient Shield 2016

By Sgt. Noshoba Davis, LANG Public Affairs Specialist AIBANO TRAINING AREA, Japan – The Louisiana National Guard sent 22 Soldiers with the 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team to participate in Orient Shield 2016 at the Aibano Training Area in Japan to support 10th Support Group (Regional), Aug. 30 – Sept. 23. This was the 31st

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