Fort Polk News

A Louisiana-based soldier killed in action is memorialized in Afghanistan. Officials at Fort Polk said Tuesday that friends and fellow soldiers of Sgt.

Staff Sgt. Sean Samaroo was inspired to join the military nine years ago by the Army's "be all you can be" TV commercial.

The renowned U.S. Army 82nd Airborne, stationed at Ft. Bragg, N.C., will be appearing at a reenactment of Custera s Last Stand on Sunday, June 28, at 1 p.m. Approximately 60 paratroopers will drop out of the sky onto a spot adjacent to the Real Bird reenactment site on the Little Bighorn River east of Garryowen, MT.

Everybody knew him as "Mojo." But officially, he was known as U.S. Army Sgt. Ricky Dewayne Jones.

Clint Black will headline FreedomFest, an Independence Day Celebration July 4, on Headquarters Field.

As he was climbing a muddy hill on a training mission to save fellow soldiers, the slick ground gave way.

When John McGibny called me about two old maps he had copied and wished to donate to the Harlingen Library, I was excited.

Ritter signed into law House Bill 1317, effectively eliminating access to approximately 20 percent of the 100,000 acres the Army had targeted for acquisition.

" A 12 month deployment that started in Iraq has come to an end for 15 U.S. engineers, as they pack their gear to head for Afghanistan.

An occasional series featuring stories of military men and women far from home and their loved ones here.

The recent tragedy last week involving a soldier in Iraq who murdered five of his comrades serves as a highly unfortunate reminder of the serious mental health challenges that America's war fighters will surely face for the indefinite future.

A flag with four blue stars hangs on a wall in the home of Scott and Patty Rataczak.

Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter said Saturday he will sign a bill to prevent the Army from buying or leasing land in southeast Colorado for a military training site.

PRIDE Industries announced Thursday that it has expanded its employment services for people with disabilities to central Louisiana.

The U.S. Army will not expand its Pinon Canyon training site in Colorado, deciding instead to work on a Louisiana project, Army sources said.

The Army has given up attempts to acquire land for expanding the Pion Canyon training site in the next year, shifting the money that had been allocated for the purpose to other uses, according to congressional and Army sources.

Georgene Louise Giltner Hill Thomas died peacefully surrounded by her family at the Eureka Springs Hospital on Tuesday, May 5, 2009.

Deployment lengths will drop from 12 months to nine months in about two years, said Army Chief of Staff Gen.

'Lakota jump marks new era' Photo credit Chuck Cannon, Fort Polk Guardian staff writer A Fort Polk Soldier jumps from a Lakota LUH 72A helicopter during high altitude, low open airborne operations April 8, while another Soldier prepares to jump.

When U.S. soldiers rolled into an Afghan security force base in their Humvee vehicles at dawn one cold morning, they came not to lead but to listen.