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Louisiana National Guard Training Center Pineville (previously Camp Beauregard) is a Louisiana National Guard installation located northeast of Pineville, Louisiana, primarily in Rapides Parish, but also extending northward into Grant Parish. It is operated and owned by the Louisiana National Guard as one of their main training areas.
Upon transfer to Camp Beauregard, all National Guard units were stripped of their state designations and re-numbered under a new federal system. [5] At this time the division of troops from Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi was re-designated the 39th Division.
The Louisiana Army National Guard (LANG) announced in March 2023 that Camp Beauregard would be renamed as Louisiana National Guard Training Center-Pineville. The WMA was renamed Esler Field Wildlife Management Area. [1]
The Louisiana National Guard hosted a town hall meeting Thursday to discuss renaming Camp Beauregard, which honors a Confederate general. Most at meeting oppose renaming Camp Beauregard but name ...
Camp Beauregard is named after Pierre Gustav Toutant Beauregard, a Confederate general from Louisiana.
The 225th Engineer Brigade is a combat heavy engineer brigade of the Louisiana Army National Guard. It is one of the largest engineer formations in the United States Army National Guard. The 225th Engineer Brigade is headquartered at Camp Beauregard near Pineville, Louisiana in Rapides Parish. The brigade conducts missions of mobility, counter ...
Camp Beauregard, near Pineville, Louisiana, a Louisiana National Guard installation named for Louisiana native and Confederate General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard. [24] In September 2022, the State of Louisiana started the process of renaming this facility. [25]
But the abandoned Esler presented the Louisiana National Guard with a golden opportunity to expand the area available to conduct its training. On June 1, 2001, the Rapides Parish Police Jury transferred the airport's management to the Louisiana Army National Guard in a 99-year lease. Today, Esler is the site of numerous training exercises.