S'pore unveils new rocket artillery system in Exercise Forging Sabre Nov 18, 2009
HIMARS is participating in the ongoing Exercise Forging Sabre in Fort Sill, which has been touted as the SAF's most complex integrated strike exercise ever. It involves integrated live-firing by multiple air and land sensor, and shooter assets. (Channelnewsasia.com)
Arizona Guard to deploy 250 to Iraq Oct 5, 2009
The soldiers will train at Fort Sill, Okla. before heading to Iraq. (AZCentral -- News)
Geronimo, Freedom Fighter of the Ap... Sep 12, 2009
Geronimo died in 1909, still a prisoner of war, and was buried far from home at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The copyright of the article Geronimo, Freedom Fighter of the Apache in is owned by. (Suite101.com)
80 Guard members to deploy Sep 11, 2009
Hemmert says Bravo Company will receive mission-specific training next month at Fort Sill, where they will team up with other elements of the 285th Aviation Regiment coming in from Arizona, Utah and North Dakota. . (FOX 11, AZ)
Debating the Constitution Sep 8, 2009
He is a PFC of the U.S. Army Reserves, having spent much of his summer at Fort Sill and Fort Jackson. Following graduation from NWOSU, Evans plans to attend the University of Oklahoma Law School and become an attorney. (Alva Review Courier, OK)
Coaching from a distance Aug 9, 2009
Lien, a 13-year member of the National Guard, spent most of his spring and summer working on becoming a 2nd Lieutenant, first for two months at Fort Sill in Oklahoma and later for three months at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. Now that Lien is an officer, he s turning his attention back to his duties as a coach, but only after taking some time to be a father and husband first. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Fort Sill Apaches file to keep NM casino open Jul 31, 2009
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) -- The Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma has filed a federal court motion aimed at forcing the National Indian Gaming Commission to recognize it has a legal basis for operating a casino in southern New Mexico ... Members of the Fort Sill Apache Tribe are descended from the Chiricahua and Warm Springs Apaches, who lived in parts of New Mexico, Arizona and northern Mexico ... Hogen said the Fort Sill Apaches met none of them. (FOX 11, AZ)
Marines charged in rape of girl, 12 Jul 25, 2009
The Marines were attending the U.S. Marine Battery at Fort Sill, Okla ... The newspaper added that authorities believe several more Marines sexually assaulted the girl over several months, and they are working on tracking them down since they are no longer at Fort Sill ... The Marines were attending the U.S. Marine Battery at Fort Sill, Okla. (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
Alva student completes a week with Youth Leadership Oklahoma Jul 10, 2009
The group met for orientation at the Oklahoma History Center, spent time on base at Fort Sill, completed a ropes course and rode the AMTRAK from Ardmore to Norman. Lieutenant Governor Jari Askins addressed the group at the Oklahoma State Capitol. (Alva Review Courier, OK)
* Army challenges older recruits, and vice versa Jun 20, 2009
By James Dao NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE, FORT SILL, OKLAHOMA Saturday, Jun 20, 2009, Page 16 ... Staff Sergeant Arron Barnes, Fort Sills drill sergeant of the year in 2009, said the older recruits tended to bring technical skills and maturity, were easier to instruct and were often more committed than teenage soldiers ... Despite years as a dedicated beer drinker and smoker, Butts made it through basic here at Fort Sill and is now training with an artillery unit that may head to South Korea this... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Iowa soldiers are welcomed home Jun 2, 2009
Company B of the Iowa National Guard was deployed to Fort Sill, OK June 5, 2008 for post mobilization training. The Unit moved into the Iraq theater in Mid-August 2008. (Ogden Reporter, IA)
2 groups of Apache descendants fight over remains May 7, 2009
Phillip Thompson, an attorney for the Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, says his group and 18 members of the family of a man claiming to be a great-grandson of Geronimo filed motions Tuesday to request that the remains be undisturbed ... He wants to ship the remains from Fort Sill where Geronimo died in 1909 to southwestern New Mexico's Gila Wilderness. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
Reporter's Notebook: Oklahoma looks pretty darn good after plane makes difficult landing Apr 17, 2009
A fellow reporter and I were accompanying the top brass from the Montana National Guard as they visited Fort Sill to see off 63 of their fellow Montana guardsmen who had been called up to The Show. We didn't notice much else because we were just happy to be alive and back on the ground in one piece. (Montana Standard, MT)
10- to 12-month stint Apr 12, 2009
Reynolds said this final training stint at Fort Sill was tougher and more stringent than his last. Four years ago, they were given time to wander into town and have fun. (Montana Standard, MT)
U.S. Honors Apache Chief Geronimo for Bravery Feb 25, 2009
Geronimo - known as Goyathlay in the language of his Chiricahua Apache - died in 1909 at nearly 90 years of age at Fort Sill, Oklahoma ... On Febuary 17, twenty of Geronimo's descendants filed suit in a US federal court seeking "to free Geronimo, his remains, funerary objects and spirit from 100 years of imprisonment at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, the Yale University campus at New Haven, Connecticut and wherever else they may be found.". (Newsmax)
Geronimo's descendants accuse Yale society of skulduggery Feb 20, 2009
Their legal action, filed this week in a federal district court in Washington DC on the 100th anniversary of his death, will seek to determine the truth of rumours that Geronimo's burial at Fort Sill in Oklahoma was not his final resting place. Three Bonesmen, including the grandfather of former US president George W. Bush, Prescott Bush, served at Fort Sill during World War I. The trio were rumoured to have dug up Geronimo's remains in 1918 and taken some of them back to Yale where they are... (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
