Leesville Louisiana - Home of Ft. Polk & JRTC

Video showing historic downtown Leesville including The Museum of West La., Veterans Park, Post office, The old and new Courthouses, other historic buildings, as well as high altitude footage from north Leesville south to New Llano. Filmed in high definition using a DJI Phantom 2 Plus quadcopter. Songs Dont give up, New Theory, and Paracosm preformed by Washed Out.

[@markanthonymarla]

HI WE WERE STATIONED AT FT. POLK IN THE EARLY 80IES .. I USE TO VOLUNTEER FOR THE NEW Llano Fire dept. .. .. And I live in New Llano Vernon Parish My daughter Jocqleen was born at Bain memorial on Base .... I miss all the great people of Louisiana Then we moved on base to 1844 Clyburn Loop ....

[@2098elk]

Lot different than from 65 to 67 when stationed at Fort Polk. Fond memories of the Red Wood Room. Perhaps things have changed in 50 years.

[@eileenweidman9148]

Born in Fort Polk and raised in Leesville. Love this beautiful video and the music! Thank you Cenla Aerial Imagery!

[@urturn24]

WOW... .Amazing!!! Thanks for the bird's eye view of my hometown... no matter how far we roam, this is the only place that will ever by "home"

[@marksteele4235]

Was at Ft. Polk from June 74 to November 74.

[@notfbiofficial4023]

3:34 what is on the top of the sheriffs office? I’ve seen the picture of the flag hanging at Bailey’s bakery did you take that picture?

[@cenlaaerialimagery6291]

Hello, that's the clock tower top and AC units. I did take the flag pic years ago

[@notfbiofficial4023]

Cenla Aerial Imagery it is a beautiful picture you probably know my dad David Lewis

[@davevoss5519]

Wow not what I remember from 1970

[@savannawestfall3364]

I can't believe it. it's actually Leesville .I recognize everything

[@thegator5000]

Thats not the Leesville I remember in 72 !!!!

[@dennisholiday1868]

The only things I remember is Tiger Land and The Casino and leaving that place and to never return!

[@jumbo9053]

I was one of the vfirst people on the base when it reopened in 1962. Our unit was the first unit on the base to reopen the hospital. Was stationed there for 18 mo . Lesville was a very small town then , just a few streets. Diridder was 20 miles in the opposite direction, and just a little bigger. We did not have a px on the base for 6 mo. We no facilities at all for 6mo.exec a barracks a mess hall and the hospital unit to set up.. once that was done , then they began to set the rest of the base up.when we left only the south base was fully operational, north base was still being set up, part was functional, it was still several years before the entire base was fully operational

[@ursulasmith6402]

The train should be only a passenger train.

[@mrnobody5381]

I remember living in leesville next to the highschool. Moved my family on base after a man was murdered at the gas station a block away from me. This town has a nasty hood side to it.

[@ursulasmith6402]

Most likely the killer came from a large city.

[@mrnobody5381]

@@ursulasmith6402 there was violence there all the time, at that gas station.

[@mrnobody5381]

@@ursulasmith6402 No, i lived there. I am a combat vet who enjoyed working the LPOP. I am very good at that job. I can see what the problem here is. It is like a 80 percent chance it is local.

[@reyrecinos]

Very nice! I love it

[@ursulasmith6402]

awsome

[@melodybrown382]

Hello to anyone that reads this. I have been looking for my birth mother for majority of my life. Her name is Dorothy Lovell(maiden name), She was married to my father for a short time while he was in the Army stationed in Louisiana in 1978. Her last name would have been Brown, I was born in March 1978. Something happened and my father when I was about 2 weeks old, took me to Indiana to stay with family on his side, while he finished his time in Army. My family only knows her name, that she had red hair, small build, very pretty, and she also had a daughter alittle older than me, they think her older daughters name is Lucretia (not sure of spelling). I have tried everything that I can, but have had no progress finding any information. So if anyone could please help, it would mean the world to me. Thank you 😊

[@stephenevelyn1571]

Well produced video. Are the streets in that town normally that deserted?

[@cenlaaerialimagery6291]

Thank you! No, that was a early Sunday morning. Intentionally planned it so as not to draw attention.

[@huntersmall6162]

What kind of drone do you have

[@2098elk]

Sure a lot different than when I was there in 1985-67. Sleezeville! Ripping off service personnel. Black and wite sections in movies, bus stations, bars, etc. Down town was arcades and bars. What an education for a kid from Los Angeles!

[@shermanmiles2347]

I was there in 1967 and I did not go into Leersville