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Louisiana National Guard responds to hurricane, COVID-19
September 14, 2020
Louisiana National Guard Pfc. Reion Jones with the 1-141st Field Artillery Battalion, 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, hauls ice to a citizen's vehicle while working at a distribution site following Hurricane Laura in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Sept. 4, 2020.

Louisiana Guard provides water to Hurricane Laura volunteers
September 4, 2020
Louisiana National Guard members with A Company, 199th Brigade Support Battalion, 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, are providing and maintaining clean, potable water Sept. 2, 2020, to volunteers in Lake Charles, Louisiana, who are helping clean up damage caused by Hurricane Laura.

Louisiana National Guard continues Hurricane Laura response
August 31, 2020
More than 6,200 members of the Louisiana National Guard are helping civilian authorities respond to the aftermath of Hurricane Laura, which made landfall in southwest Louisiana Aug. 27, 2020.

Louisiana National Guard responds to Hurricane Laura
August 26, 2020
As the sun rises over Southwest Louisiana Aug. 27, 2020, members of the Louisiana National Guard clear roadways in Lake Charles and begin to assess the damage from Hurricane Laura.

La. Guard assists at new Baton Rouge COVID-19 testing sites
July 9, 2020
Louisiana National Guard Soldiers assist state authorities at four new COVID-19 testing sites, like this one at LSU’s Alex Box Stadium, to better assist communities where there has been an increase in cases and hospitalizations, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, July 7, 2020.

Louisiana National Guard preps for Cristobal
June 8, 2020
Members of the Louisiana National Guard load 50,000 masks and 2,000 gloves aboard two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters in Baton Rouge June 6, 2020, ahead of Tropical Storm Cristobal, for use if search-and-rescue missions are necessary.

La. Guard supports tornado, COVID-19 response in Ouachita
April 25, 2020
Louisiana National Guard members with the 225th Engineer Brigade help haul debris from tornadoes in Monroe, Louisiana, April 18, 2020, while also assisting with the COVID-19 response.

Louisiana National Guard distributes food to elderly
April 23, 2020
Louisiana National Guard Spc. Nicholas Campbell, with the 1022nd Engineer Company, 225th Engineer Brigade, carries boxes of food to put in an elderly person’s car in Colfax, Louisiana, April 22, 2020.

National Guard chief: More Guard members to be called up
April 10, 2020
Louisiana National Guard Soldiers and Airmen collect nasal swabs from patients during a drive-through, community-based COVID-19 testing site in New Orleans March 20, 2020. More than 28,000 National Guard members have been mobilized throughout the country as part of COVID-19 response efforts, with additional Soldiers and Airmen expected to come on duty in the coming weeks.

La. Guard increases response force, mission support
April 10, 2020
Members of the Louisiana National Guard, 205th Engineer Battalion, help distribute food for the Great Baton Rouge Food Bank in Walker, Louisiana, April 9, 2020. Guard members have helped package and distribute over 580,540 pounds of food while assisting five food banks throughout the state.

Growing Louisiana Guard presence supports COVID-19 response
March 27, 2020
Pvt. Pat Dawsonhassell, a 20-year-old Lake Charles resident with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion,156th Infantry Regiment, 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, screens patients at a COVID-19 mobile testing site at Burton Coliseum in Lake Charles, Louisiana, March 26, 2020.

La. Guard assists New Orleans drive-through testing sites
March 20, 2020
Louisiana National Guard Soldiers and Airmen test first responders for COVID-19 infections at Louis Armstrong Park, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 20, 2020. The testing site is one of three across New Orleans and Jefferson Parishes and will soon open to the general public.