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......
