- The Naming Fee has really useful Fort Polk be renamed Fort Johnson in honor of William Henry Johnson, a black Medal of Honor recipient who served within the Army throughout World Warfare I. (Particular to the American Press)
U.S. Authorities officers imagine the method to take away and change Fort Polk’s identify throughout the set up and surrounding areas may price $1.4 million, based on the Naming Fee’s last report.
The Naming Fee launched its last report on really useful new Army base names to Congress on Monday, which included a price estimate for every set up and a 17-page record of belongings at every set up that can must be changed.
That record consists of all the things from signage to 300 recycling bins at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, to an indication over a softball subject at Fort Hood, Texas.
At Fort Polk, the Fee included a prolonged record of indicators alongside state highways and on the Toledo Bend leisure heart, in addition to the elimination of two work of Leonidas Polk contained in the set up’s museum and a show concerning the naming of Fort Polk.
The whole price for all renaming efforts is estimated to be $21 million.
Fort Polk’s renaming, and its bills, aren’t restricted to the set up. Chairman of the previously named Fort Polk Progress group Rick Allen stated the group has paid $30,000 to vary its personal identify forward of the set up’s renaming.
The group serves to boost consciousness of the optimistic impacts the Vernon Parish set up has on native communities, and foyer for funding and higher alternatives for the army households who stay there. With the information of Fort Polk’s impending identify change, the group made the transfer to vary its identify to the Louisiana Armed Forces Alliance (LAFA) and to give attention to army models throughout the state.
“We used the chance to department out to a state-wide effort, and we’re enthusiastic about not solely defending the army belongings throughout the state however seeing them flourish,” Allen stated.
The Naming Fee has really useful Fort Polk be renamed Fort Johnson in honor of William Henry Johnson, a black Medal of Honor recipient who served within the Army throughout World Warfare I.
In accordance with the Naming Fee’s report, Fort Polk obtained the second-lowest variety of identify options through its web site, with solely 848 options obtained. The bottom was Fort Pickett in Virginia, with 674 steered names and the biggest variety of new identify options have been submitted for Fort Bragg, at over 4,000.
The brand new names are anticipated to be carried out no later than Jan. 2024.
