BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. -- The Army Joint Readiness Training Center is conducting unconventional warfare training using helicopters Feb. 19 and 20 on the east side of Barksdale Air Force Base.
Other military services’ units occasionally use Barksdale’s range areas for readiness, sustainment, and pre-deployment training.
Barksdale does have a wild boar population control program but does not use heavy weapons, helicopters or other aerial forces to implement the program.
Please contact 2nd Bomb Wing Public Affairs by e-mail at 2bw.pa@us.af.mil or by phone at 318-456-1015 for more information.