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Fort Johnson, formerly Fort Polk, is a United States Army installation located in Vernon Parish, Louisiana, about 10 miles (15 km) east of Leesville and 30 miles (50 km) north of DeRidder in Beauregard Parish.
The 15th Field Hospital ("Warrior Medics") [1] is a field hospital of the United States Army formed in 1917 and perpetuated until today. The hospital has participated in World War I, World War II, Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan).
Leesville is a city in, and the parish seat of, Vernon Parish, Louisiana, United States. [3] The population was 5,649 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Fort Johnson South micropolitan area and is additionally served by the Leesville Airport.
Vernon Parish map, 1895. [8] Old First National Bank Building in downtown Leesville, LA, now the Courthouse Annex building. In the late 1890s the timber industry, which was the dominant industry in the parish from its creation, began to boom with the construction of the Kansas City Southern Railway in 1897. It increased access to markets.
Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) is hosting Freedom Fest early this year for the first time. The event will happen from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday, June 29, at the Cowan and Memorial stadiums.
Miami-Dade opened applications for Section 8 waiting in February, and more than 70,000 people signed up on the first day alone, hoping to get 5,000 spots available on the federal rent-subsidized ...
The camp, and several tens of thousands of acres of surrounding land, including Camp Claiborne, Camp Livingston, Camp Cook, Fort Polk and what is now Esler Regional Airport were used for the Louisiana Maneuvers, a training exercise involving almost 500,000 men, preparing for the battles of World War II. Two-thirds of the U.S. military rotated ...
The average attendance at America's Freedom Fest is 20,000-25,000 people. ... Jul. 10—GOSHEN — America's Freedom Fest returns to the Goshen Municipal Airport this Saturday, featuring Rotors 'N ...