By Sgt. Rebekah Malone Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office PINEVILLE, La. – Members of the Louisiana Air National Guard’s 259th Air Traffic Control Squadron flipped the switch on the new ground control approach system at the Alexandria International Airport in Alexandria, Aug. 10. In 1997 the LANG’s 259th ATCS took over operations of the […]
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Five additional Black Hawks join the fight BATON ROUGE, La. – At the direction of the Governor, the Louisiana National Guard continued assisting the city of New Orleans with aerial firefighting and saw a significant impact in the marshes of the Bayou Sauvage area, Aug. 31. As of this evening, the LANG dropped more than
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BATON ROUGE, La.—At the direction of the Governor, the Louisiana National Guard began assisting the city of New Orleans with aerial firefighting in the marshes of the Bayou Sauvage area, Aug. 30. By sunset Tuesday, Guard helicopters dropped more than 116,000 gallons of water over small fires just north of Highway 90 and east of
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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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PINEVILLE, La. – The Louisiana National Guard’s 199th Leadership Regiment held a graduation ceremony to commission 33 new officers at Tioga High School in Ball, Aug. 27. Louisiana’s officer candidate school is designed to commission the future leaders of the Army National Guard. On August 3, the 199th Leadership Regiment was awarded the highest accreditation
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Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office PINEVILLE, La. – Under the authority of Gov. Bobby Jindal, the Louisiana National Guard has forward deployed eight Guardsmen and two UH-60 Blackhawks with hoist capability as part of a National Guard force package, prepared to respond to Hurricane Irene. Staged in South Carolina, the LANG Guardsmen are prepared
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