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However, Ft. Polk is no longer a TO&E duty station, its now a training base. I really can't think of any reason an active duty unit army unit would deploy from there.

I was with the 5th ID at Ft Polk in 86-87. We did have a LA National Guard roundout brigade. I would guess that even though 5ID is no more the LA brigade still exists. Perhaps that is what flew out of Alexandria.

No kidding! its a small world! i was in 1/61 inf for a while. how about you?

No way the army is going to deploy a NG brigade (the 256 as I recall) untill they have trained and are up to speed. that means a long time at NTC. You might recall this is what happened with the 48th (i think) bde, of the Texas NG during desert storm. They went on intensive training, not sure about NTC, but were never deployed because the war was over so quickly. The mobilization that is going on is for combat support and css, mostly from the reserves i would guess. the exception is aviators.