Story by Sgt. Rebekah Malone | Louisiana National Guard | 05.14.2011
More than 25 Louisiana National Guard members from the 769th Engineer Battalion have spent the last nine days walking portions of the 72-miles of levee that protect Concordia Parish residents from the brimming Mississippi River in search of sand boils and seepage, May 14. ...
Story by Sgt. Michael Owens | Louisiana National Guard | 05.11.2011
Soldiers of the Louisiana National Guard’s 769th Engineer Battalion are constructing sand-filled basket barriers in Morgan City, beginning May 9, as a precautionary measure to the rising Mississippi River....