La. Guard mobilizes ahead of Hurricane Milton to offer support
Soldiers from the Louisiana National Guard’s 205th Engineer Battalion prepare equipment that will be used during their deployment to staging sites in Florida ahead of Hurricane Milton’s imminent landfall.
At the direction of the Governor Jeff Landry, Maj. Gen. Thomas C. Friloux, adjutant general of Louisiana, has ordered the mobilization and deployment of over 500 Louisiana National Guard Soldiers to Florida through the Emergency Management Assistance Compact as Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall on late Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024.
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