By DEBRA LEMOINE HAMMOND - The $111 million Louisiana Army National Guard complex under construction in Hammond should be completed by summer 2009, Guard officials said Tuesday.

By DEBRA LEMOINE HAMMOND - The Louisiana Army National Guard's new home base at Hammond North Shore Regional Airport still operates out of temporary trailers and big tents used as hangars.

The chief of staff for the Louisiana National Guard said Thursday that now is not the time to critique the operations that occurred before and after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the state. That said, Col.

BATON ROUGE -- Maj. Patrick Bossetta has been to Iraq and back, but the helicopter pilot with the Louisiana National Guard still has difficulty believing that the devastation spread below him on countless rescue missions is his beloved New Orleans.