overwhelming feeling, certainly that fear is there. but we're here to assure all the citizens of louisiana and the visitors to our state, you know, we're going to work it hard each and every day, 24/7 till the mission is over to make sure we can resume some semblance of normalcy hopefully sooner rather than later. >> major general, you've got some great people helping there, and you are one of them. we thank you for what you're doing. thank you for your service and thank you for keeping the people of my home state safe and making life better for them under these circumstances. i appreciate you. thanks. >> you bet, don. hey, can i give a shout-out to our soldiers and airmen that are deployed overseas right now? >> you think i'm going to say no to that? are you kidding me? absolutely. >> we have 2,400 guardsmen that are currently deployed overseas in the middle east, and we have some on the southwest border mission, and we're super proud of their service overseas and on the southwest border. please know your teammates back home along with all the states and active component service members that are supporting us