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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.
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 ...
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 biggest news from the bill for Louisiana is the money appropriated for four bases, totaling $276 million in funds for construction. ... — The U.S. fiscal 2025 national defense budget ...
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 was originally formed in the "18th Century when a militia was formed from among the civilian inhabitants of Colonial Louisiana to assist Royal French and Spanish troops in protecting the colony and preserving the peace" [2] The Militia Act of 1903 organized the various state militias into the present National Guard system.
The 156th Infantry arrived at the port of Newport News, Virginia, on 31 December 1918 on the USS Princess Matoika, and was demobilized on 23 January 1919 at Camp Beauregard, Louisiana. Per the terms of the National Defense Act of 1920, the 156th Infantry was reconstituted in the National Guard in 1921, assigned to the 39th Division, and ...
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.