Bush to visit Fort Polk Tuesday

Associated Press | Feb 13, 2004

[FireTrack]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush plans a visit next week to Fort Polk, home to a regiment due to return soon from a year of service in Iraq.

Bush will speak to military personnel at the base on Tuesday, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Friday.

The 4,000-strong 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, in Iraq since last March, is due to return sometime in March or April. It is to be replaced by a brigade from the 1st Cavalry Division in Fort Hood, Texas, as part of a larger troop rotation announced earlier by the Pentagon.

The 2nd Armored, the oldest serving regiment on continuous active duty in the United States, is a lighter force than traditional armored cavalry regiments, and it has no tanks. Its heaviest vehicles are gun-mounted Humvee utility vehicles. The unit also has an aviation squadron.

[FireTrack]

I plan to be there!

[DrDeb]

Thank you for posting this information -- I will repost it on the DOSE tonight!!!

Since you plan to attend this event, you must give us a full report upon your return!!!

[deport]

You maybe should post this on the Lousiana State message board...... I spent a couple of months marching through those hills many years ago.... Hope you enjoy the opportunity to see the President.

[DWC]

There are five poisonous snakes in the USA and four are in FT. Polk. They are the water moccasin, the rattle, the coral, the copperhead,poisonous snakes that is.

[FireTrack]

Will try to take some photos and post as well!

[FireTrack]

Ok, how do you do that? Be my guest if you wish to!

[deport]

Go to your profile page and click on My Locale..... that should give you the LA State Message Board....

In the blank space provided post the message and post it. That way other LA posters will see it if they visit the Message board.......

[deport]

What is the fifth?

[strongbow]

Good old Fort Puke. My second daughter was born there and my first wife was from Diseaseville (Leesville), home of the good Fort. Glad that the President is going and not me. BTW I can say this honestly and without prejudice since I am a native Louisiana boy.

[hershey]

I wonder if C-Span will tape his speech and then show it at two A.M. after eight straight hours of Kerry stump appearances.

[W04Man]

Bump from a transplanted cajun! Wish I could be there.

ANY VETS OUT THERE? PLEASE ADD YOUR NAME TO OUR LIST:

http://W-04.com

[JustAnAmerican]

It's amazing that Fort Polk is still around. Back during the later part of Nam, talk was the post would be closed down. Guess it was too much of a good thing to let go :)

[sonofatpatcher2]

Re: There are five poisonous snakes in the USA and four are in FT. Polk. They are the water moccasin, the rattle, the coral, the copperhead,poisonous snakes that is.

The fifth? DemocRATS. Yes, they are some of those at Fort Polk also...

[DWC]

I like that.

[DWC]

I didn't want to know.

[NEPA]

The 2nd ACR is my nephew's unit. At Christmas he said they're leaving Baghdad in March for Kuwait and should be stateside in April.

If there's a chance he'll be home early (in PA on leave) I better get going on having his car worked on. I put it in storage for him and when I drove it to the garage it was making some really bad noise in the engine somewhere. He'll be driving it back to LA.

[deport]

LOL.... but I did..... You said there were five posionious snakes in the USA and you named four. I was curious which was the fifth? I looked but only found references to four... Thanks anyway......

[JavaTheHutt]

I was there today. My voice is kinda hoarse right now from hooahing. Now I'm back on North Fort, waiting for the OpFor to attack when we go hot at midnight tonight

[FireTrack]

You guys did great with all the hooahs! Can you believe the press said Fort Polk was a NG base? Why JRTC trains some of the best SOG in the world. I guess that was part of their scheme to make this look like he was kissing up to the guard and trying to dispel their AWOL claims...

Sheez...

[JavaTheHutt]

Unfortunately, I didn't get to see the news coverage of it. My unit's on North Fort, doing a JRTC rotation as our last bit of training before heading off to Iraq. No TV to watch, we only brought a couple of duffle bags of gear with us.