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England Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force base in Louisiana, located 5 miles (8.0 km) northwest of Alexandria and about 170 miles (270 km) northwest of New Orleans. Originally known as Alexandria Army Air Base, on 23 June 1955 the facility was renamed England Air Force Base in honor of Lt Col John Brooke England (1923–1954). [1]
The Louisiana Army National Guard was originally formed in the "18th Century when a militia was formed from among the civilian inhabitants of Colonial Louisiana to assist Royal French and Spanish troops in protecting the colony and preserving the peace" [2] The Militia Act of 1903 organized the various state militias into the present National Guard system.
The Louisiana Air National Guard (LA ANG) (French: Garde Nationale Aérienne de Louisiane; Spanish: Guardia Nacional Aérea de Luisiana) is the aerial militia of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is a reserve of the United States Air Force and along with the Louisiana Army National Guard , an element of the Louisiana National Guard of the much ...
[2] [3] It is located 10 nautical miles (12 statute miles, 19 kilometres) northeast of the central business district of Alexandria, Louisiana, [1] The airfield is owned by the Louisiana Army National Guard [1] and is the home of Army Aviation Support Facility #2 (AASF#2).
The 256th Brigade was activated from November 1990 through May 1991, and conducted training at Fort Hood, TX, but never deployed. [4] Some controversy arose over this activation of three round out brigades (the 256th; the 48th Infantry Brigade, Georgia Army National Guard; and the 155th Armor Brigade, Mississippi Army National Guard).
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry speaks during the Tennessee Republican Party's Statesmen's Dinner at Music City Center in Nashville, Tenn., Saturday, June 15, 2024.
Allocations for subsequent storms that caused major damage in Louisiana — Gustav and Ike in 2008, Isaac in 2012, the great floods of 2016, Laura and Delta in 2020, and Ida in 2021 — brought ...
Fort George G. Meade [1] is a United States Army installation located in Maryland, that includes the Defense Information School, the Defense Media Activity, the United States Army Field Band, and the headquarters of United States Cyber Command, the National Security Agency, the Defense Courier Service, Defense Information Systems Agency headquarters, and the U.S. Navy's Cryptologic Warfare ...