We're in Louisiana. We're in the box. We're in the box.What's so special about the box and what's happening here right now. Well, we use this is one of our combat training centers. And what we have, we immerse our units in the training um that's here.We have a professional opposing force that also has the latest technology. And this is where we learn, adapt, and transform. And that's what we're using.And this is our fourth brigade that we have basically brought through here. and we are completely changing t ...

In western Louisiana, a Black Hawk helicopter ride away from the Fort Johnson military base, sits a vast complex of wilderness that the U.S. Army uses to train soldiers for combat. The expanse, what the Joint Readiness Training Center's calls the "Box," stretches 242,000 acres. It was there that the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division recently completed a two-week rotation and that the service's top military official, U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George, paid servicemembers a visit."We immerse ...

As the US Army rings in its 250th birthday this weekend, a seismic shift is underway for how the service operates, how it buys weapons, and how it prepares for the future of war. I recently traveled to the Army's top military official to Fort Johnson in the Joint Readiness Training Cent's Box. It's a massive combat training site in the Louisiana Wilderness to see how that shift is taking shape.In western Louisiana, this transformation and contact brigade is training for the battlefield. An all-new military ...