Fort Polk

noun

1. a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in W central Louisiana, SW of Alexandria.

Example Sentences

Louisiana’s Fort Polk later this month will be renamed Fort Johnson in honor of Sgt.

From Washington Times

Fort Polk in Louisiana will be the next installation to change its name June 13 to Fort Johnson, in honor of Sgt.

From Seattle Times

Fort Polk in west-central Louisiana was established in 1941, its name recommended by the Army War College’s Historical Section.

From New York Times

By proposing that Fort Polk in Louisiana take Johnson’s name, the commission highlights the extremes to which the Jim Crow-era United States sometimes went to deny even the possibility of Black American heroism.

From Seattle Times

Fort Polk in Louisiana would be called Fort Johnson in honor of William Henry Johnson of the “Harlem Hellfighters.”

From Washington Post