BATON ROUGE. – The Louisiana National Guard completed the construction of a 5 3/4 mile long Tiger Dam shoreline protection system near Venice, in the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River Delta.
The 1023rd, headquartered in Oak Grove., constructed the barrier across a beach in the Southwest pass as a secondary line of defense to the boom line, to protect the natural marshlands from the encroaching oil.
The 1st Battalion of the 244th Aviation Regiment based in Hammond, airlifted Soldiers in and out of the worksite daily due to its remote location.
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