Parish Councilman Clouatre’s son to deploy with National Guard

GONZALES – Ascension Parish Councilman Randy Clouatre (left) and his son, Staff Sergeant Daniel Clouatre with the Louisiana Army National Guard’s 922^nd Horizontal Engineer Company, are shown answering questions Thursday from WAFB-TV reporter Cheryl Mercedes while video photographer James deGraauw filmed the interview. Clouatre and his father were attending the company’s Deployment Ceremony at the Trade Mart building of Lamar-Dixon Expo Center. More than 150 soldiers from the Gonzales unit will be deploying this weekend for their first stop at Fort Bliss, Texas for training before continuing a yearlong deployment to include operations in Kuwait.