BATON ROUGE, La. - The Louisiana Army National Guard’s 769th Engineer Battalion and the State Aviation Command completed sandbag drop operations filling a 115-foot area in the vicinity of Trinity Island on May 27.
“I feel great about helping the Parish and helping protect this marshy area,” said Capt. Jeffrey L. Giering, commander of the 928th Sapper Company.
Their mission was to emplace 115 feet of 2,000 pound sandbags in the vicinity of Trinity Island in order to fill in a low lying area critical to oil spill mitigation efforts along Louisiana’s shoreline.
Inclement weather impacted their progress, but the Guardsmen were able to complete the project in less than two days.
“Our Soldiers, with the support of Aviation Command, stepped it up and protected the area,” said Giering.