Originally named after Confederate general Leonidas Polk, Fort Polk became Fort Johnson during a re-designation ceremony on June 13, 2023 in honor of Sgt. William Henry Johnson, a World War I Medal of Honor recipient from North Carolina who served in …

In 1955, Camp Polk – now called Fort Polk – reopened in preparation for Exercise Sagebrush. America’s biggest peacetime exercise since the 1941 Louisiana Maneuvers, some 85,000 troops...

Tiger Village was the large training village on Peason Ridge where thousands of infantry recruits took Advanced Infantry Training (AIT) at Fort Polk, La. during the Vietnam War. It was a fortified village that trainees had to attack and capture during training.

The Fort Polk Museum exhibits artifacts and interprets the historic contributions of the Army at Fort Polk from 1940 to present day. Fort Polk's storyline emphasizes the training...

May 18, 2021 · – In 1941, with World War II in full swing, Army leadership chose the wooded, sandy hills area of central Louisiana to conduct maneuvers involving more than 400,000 troops to evaluate training,...

In 1955, Camp Polk – now called Fort Polk – reopened in preparation for Exercise Sagebrush. America’s biggest peacetime exercise since the 1941 Louisiana Maneuvers, some 85,000 troops participated, significantly fewer than the 400,000 involved 14 years earlier.

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Fort Polk was established in 1941 and named for the Right Reverend Leonidas Polk, first Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Louisiana and a Confederate General. The fort trained thousands of soldiers for World War II in what was called the Louisiana Maneuvers.

Camp Polk, named for Confederate Lieutenant General and Episcopal Bishop Leonides Polk, was officially completed August 1, 1941. Soldiers of the World War II and Vietnam eras would scarcely recognize the new Fort Polk.

Fort Polk began as a base for the Louisiana Maneuvers in the 1940s. It served the 1st Armored Division in the 1950s, and became a basic training post during Vietnam War years of the 1960s and '70s. It hosted the 5th Infantry Division (Mechanized) in the 1970s-1980s, and the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment in the 1990s.