Story by Chuck Cannon | Fort Polk Public Affairs Office | 07.15.2020
FORT POLK, La. — Elements of the 1st Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division and 46th Engineer Battalion spent July 15 and 16 at the Joint Readiness Training Center and Fort Polk’s Peason Ridge training area learning a new way to employ abatises. An abatis is a field fortification used to slow the advance of an enemy, typically by felling trees......
Courtesy Story | Fort Polk Public Affairs Office | 06.12.2020
By JEAN CLAVETTE GRAVES Editor’s note: This week I had the opportunity to talk to some amazing Soldiers stationed at Fort Polk to highlight the Army's greatest resource —our people. There are so many wonderful service members; I was privileged to talk to a few. I am humbled by their dedication, their motivation and their service — happy 245th birthday to the Army. FORT POLK, La.......
Story by Chuck Cannon | Fort Polk Public Affairs Office | 02.14.2020
FORT POLK, La. — When three Fort Polk Soldiers headed to Baton Rouge to catch an up and coming country music band Midland at the Texas Club Feb. 8, little did they think their military training would help save a man’s life. Pfc. Justin Pfeiffer, a 91B wheeled mechanic from Sonora California, Pfc. Mark Rivington, a 12N horizontal construction engineer from Panama, Oklahoma, both with the......
