Throughout June 2025, over 4,000 Soldiers from the Iowa Army National Guard trained at Fort Polk, Louisiana, undergoing one ...

Fort Polk was home to Tigerland, an advanced infantry training center during the Vietnam War, from 1962-1973. This period of Fort Polk's history was recounted in the 2004 movie .

In 1959, Fort Polk closed for the third time in less than 15 years. It would be the final time the base shut its doors. In 1963, the fort reopened permanently as an infantry training center.

Tiger Land and JRTC Established as Camp Polk in 1941, Fort Johnson has long been a training hub, most of it remembered with little affection by generations of soldiers.

VERNON PARISH, La. (KALB) - Fort Johnson in Vernon Paris h has restored its name to Fort Polk, following comments delivered by President Donald Trump at Fort Bragg in North Carolina on June 10. The ...

Ft. Polk, LA - On the Fort Polk Army Post, the 162nd Infantry- known as the 'Tiger Brigade'- hosted the first ever 'Return to Tiger Land' on Saturday, allowing veterans and their families to be ...

The story is set at Fort Polk, Louisiana, in September of 1971. The platoon's men, mostly unwilling and hapless draftees, have completed boot camp and are now being sent here for Advanced Infantry ...

Fort Polk was rebranded as Fort Johnson in honor of William Henry Johnson -- who received the Medal of Honor nearly a century after serving on the front lines of France.

“My first stop was Fort Polk Louisiana, which went through basic training there, infantry. And, then I went on to AIT and Tigerland at Fort Polk Louisiana, which was training the troops for Vietnam.

One soldier was killed and three were injured when a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed during a medevac mission early Thursday morning at Fort Polk, Louisiana.. The base has not released the ...

In 1959, Fort Polk closed for the third time in less than 15 years. It would be the final time the base shut its doors. In 1963, the fort reopened permanently as an infantry training center.

Louisiana's Fort Polk became Fort Johnson, the latest Army base to replace its Confederate name. It now honors a soldier who earned a Medal of Honor a century after the night that made him a hero.