BATON ROUGE – Today, Governor Bobby Jindal announced the retirement of Adjutant General Maj. Gen. Bennett C. Landreneau from the Louisiana National Guard, and the appointment of Brig. Gen. Glenn Curtis as adjutant general. Landreneau will retire as the longest, current serving adjutant general in the nation with nearly fourteen years of service as head […]
La. National Guard top general to retire, new leader appointed Read More »
By Sgt. Rebekah Malone Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office PINEVILLE, La. –The Louisiana National Guard recently upgraded two UH-72 Lakota helicopters with the Security and Support Mission Equipment Package designed to better support law enforcement and assist during state responses. Louisiana is one of the first four states to receive this package. “These capabilities
La. Guard’s helicopters receive high-tech upgrades Read More »
NEW ORLEANS – Family and friends welcomed home 13 members of the Louisiana Air National Guard’s 214th Engineering Installation Squadron from a six-month deployment to Afghanistan and Iraq at the Louis Armstrong International Airport, Oct. 25. “It’s great to be back,” said Master Sgt. Joe Cagnolatti, cable installer from Lafayette. “It was a good deployment
La. National Guard Airmen return home Read More »
By Tech. Sgt. Sienna M. Schehr 159th Fighter Wing Public Affairs Office BELLE CHASSE, La. – The Louisiana Air National Guard’s 159th Fighter Wing hosted 40 foreign ambassadors, their spouses, and State Department staff members at the Naval Air Station, Joint Reserve Base, New Orleans for a day of briefings and aerial tour of the
La. Guard gives foreign ambassadors tour over Gulf south Read More »
By Pfc. Joshua L. Barnett 241st Mobile Public Affairs Detachment NEW ORLEANS – The Louisiana National Guard’s 1-141st Field Artillery Battalion (Washington Artillery) paid tribute to its fallen Soldiers during a wreath-laying ceremony near the unit’s monument at Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans, Oct. 15, 2011. “It is a great honor to be here to
Washington Artillery remembers their fallen Read More »
111014-F-VU198-322 BATON ROUGE, La. – Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal honors members of the Louisiana National Guard’s 1022nd Engineer Company who are currently deployed to Afghanistan by flying a unit signed Engineer Flag over the Governor’s Mansion in Baton Rouge, La., Oct. 14, 2011. The primary missions during this deployment consist of constructing base camps, providing
Gov. Bobby Jindal honors Guard’s 1022nd Engineers Read More »
