Louisiana Army National Guard

Update on Recovery Operations of helicopter crash

  By Team Eglin Public Affairs Resolve Marine Group, out of Mobile, Ala., has been contracted to complete the recovery of the UH-60 aircraft from the Santa Rosa Sound. The operation is expected to take approximately eight hours, weather pending. An Army and Coast Guard dive team will also be on site to assist in […]

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Two La. Guardsmen confirmed killed in crash

  Search moves into recovery operations NEW ORLEANS – The Louisiana National Guard has confirmed two Soldiers involved in the UH-60M Black Hawk training accident crash are dead and have been recovered, March 12. What was a search and rescue operation, has moved into recovery operations for the remaining two Guardsmen. “At this point, we’re

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La. National Guard audio, quotes from press conference

NEW ORLEANS – The Louisiana National Guard held a press conference Wednesday afternoon to update the public on the helicopter accident that occurred last night in Florida at the Army Aviation Support Facility #1 in Hammond, Louisiana. Audio from the event can be found here: http://geauxguard.com/louisiana-national-guard-helicopter-accident-media-advisory/7183/ “Today, as you can imagine, is a tough day

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Louisiana National Guard helicopter accident

  NEW ORLEANS – Two UH-60 BlackHawk aircraft assigned to the Hammond, Louisiana Army National Guard were participating in a training exercise over night. One aircraft with four aircrew and seven Marines assigned to Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, was involved in an accident near Eglin range site A-17, east of the Navarre Bridge in Florida.

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La. Guard trains Cyber Defense Incident Response Team

  By Sgt. Scott D. Longstreet, 241st Mobile Public Affairs Detachment BATON ROUGE, La. – Approximately 40 Louisiana National Guard Soldiers and Airmen with the state’s new Cyber Defense Incident Response Team (CDIRT) participated in a two-day training event at a newly constructed “Cyber Range” in Baton Rouge last month. The team was created to

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LANG makes history with new air traffic control tower

­­ By Spc. Joshua Barnett, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office NEW ORLEANS — The Louisiana National Guard recently made history when they began providing air traffic control services at the Hammond Northshore Regional Airport. “Standing up a tower in the national airspace is something that hasn’t been done in many, many, many years,” said

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