FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Fort Sill, Oklahoma ~ 07 NOV 2017

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Road Trip: Fort Sill, Oklahoma

Fort Sill, Oklahoma is a United States Army post north of Lawton, Oklahoma, about 85 miles southwest of Oklahoma City.

Today, Fort Sill remains the only active Army installation of all the forts on the Southern Plains built during the Indian Wars. It is designated as a National Historic Landmark and serves as home of the United States Army Field Artillery School as well as the Marine Corps site for Field Artillery MOS school, United States Army Air Defense Artillery School, the 31st Air Defense Artillery Brigade, and the 75th Fires Brigade.

Fort Sill is also one of the four locations for Army Basic Combat Training. It has played a significant role in every major American conflict since 1869.

 

A detachment of the United States Marine Corps, consisting of a firing battery and commanded by a colonel, is stationed at Fort Sill. Referred to as the MARDET, the detachment works with the Field Artillery School to train Marine artillerymen.

Marines also serve as gunnery and fire support instructors at the Field Artillery Officer Basic Course, and as small group leaders at the Field Artillery Captains' Career Course. All Marine artillery officers attend the Field Artillery School and are trained alongside their Army Counterparts.

The 77th Army Band (Special designation: "The Pride of Fort Sill") is part of the Fires Center of Excellence. It was originally organized on 1 March 1907 at Fort Du Pont, Delaware as the 13th Band, Coast Artillery.

Another special detachment is the Field Artillery Half Section, an eight-man group representative of the "flying artillery" which was drawn by a team of horses (the Half Section has eight horses – all named after former commanding generals of Fort Sill) around the turn of the 20th century.

The Half Section was established in 1969 to celebrate Fort Sill's Centennial. The Soldiers are volunteers for the show group, while the horses, their equipment and transportation are provided through charitable donations. The popular Half Section has appeared in regional parades, local festivities, change of command ceremonies and a presidential inauguration parade.

Learn More About Fort Sill HERE!!

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[radu]

Must not have found a TV show to get engrossed in tonight, huh? LOL

I’ve gotten a bit engrossed in news. Didn’t get to check any out this afternoon and am catching up on the day’s happenings.

[ConorMacNessa]

Ace walking Sir Winston – 4 November 2017

"I am an American fighting man. I serve in the forces guarding our country and our way of life.
I am prepared to give my life in their defense."

[radu]

I had the feeling he was growling based on his body language. Ghost seemed to be thoroughly enjoying the episode. LOL

Nope. No rain for us tonight. It’s all going north of us, dang it. But it’ll cool off before much longer and we’ll have to close the windows.

[radu]

ROTFL!! That is SO CUTE!!

[luvie]

Not yet, but I do need to go check to see if there’s anything worth watching. LOL! Glad I waited though! :)

[luvie]

LOL! I love that picture!

[radu]

I ran across “Rodan” on TV and am watching it now. It scared me so badly when I was a little kid but it’s a hoot to watch it now. I love watching these cheesy old movies.

[luvie]

Ghost doesn’t get rattled easily. He has a really bad wound on his ear...2nd one in a month! Someone, not sure if dog or cat, doesn’t like him. I watch to see if it’s healing. There’s nothing I can do. I can’t catch him. :(

Bummer you’re getting no rain. It sure would feel good. We need some badly, too.

it’s 68 here but we can’t open the windows. Peaches is really, REALLY bad at tearing up screens. Like on both door screens. LOL!

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Good evening everyone!
Hey Sis, is Ghost a new kitty?
Where’d he come from?

[radu]

He doesn’t seem to get rattled at all from the pix you’ve posted of him. He seems to feel he’s the king of the neighborhood.

I hope his wound will heal ok on its own. I wish you were able to catch him. It takes time and patience to do it but it can be done. We had two feral males that took almost two years each to tame but once they let me touch them, they turned into the biggest mush buckets. LOL! They LIKED that lovin’.

We needed some rain but it looks like we’ll miss out this time around. Hubby’s mowing last night and today didn’t work. It usually rains like crazy when he mows.

We only have one window with a screen on it and it’s an old metal one. The cats aren’t too bad about messing with it. No screens on the others so they’re just cracked open a little bit. It’s 66 degrees now and the house is cooling off a little bit now. Can’t turn on the A/Cs because we already covered them for the winter.

[luvie]

Hey, Sis! (((hugs)))

He is a stray that has been hanging around for a long time. I finally just gave in and started feeding him. Isn’t he a beauty? Those ice-blue eyes!

But my kitties are not impressed. LOL!

[radu]

Howdy there, MS.B!
Good to see ya tonight!

Ghost is a mighty handsome feller, isn’t he?

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Ghost is beautiful!
I had a kitteh once that looked just like him,
only he had half a tail.
My STOOPID ex-SIL let him out and he was hit by a car.
I could have throttled her!

[luvie]

Ghost does have an attitude all right. LOL! It’s really a wonder that having food out there for him hasn’t attracted other strays. Guess he doesn’t let it linger and then I have two others that will clean up the leftovers. :)

[radu]

We have a little girlie who has similar markings and coloring as well as the blue eyes. Ghost’s markings are prettier though.

So sad your kitteh got hit by a car. :-(

How’s that handsome Tigermaus doing? Has he made his “big boy” trip to the vet yet?

[radu]

Ghost probably doesn’t allow any other strays to go into your yard. LOL! He has to tolerate Peaches and Ginger because he knows it was their yard first but anyone else ..... :-)

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Yeah, I was heartbroken when he died.
Both kitties must have Siamese in their blood to
have markings like that!

Tigermaus is doing fine, and I will make an appt.
tomorrow for his “big boy” trip to the Vets.

He’s a sweet kitteh, but he is becoming aggressive
and I’m not liking that at all. I think having him
“snipped” will take care of that attitude!

[luvie]

Oh, no! Your sweet kitty! Some people should not be allowed to come near animals...or probably kids!

How is your current fuzzball doing?

[luvie]

That could be. Maybe that’s a good reason for having him around. Keeping out the stray strays. LOL!

I don’t know if he has another family or not. He’s always here in the morning and evening when it’s time to eat. I guess I will never know. I will worry about him in the winter, even though I have a cat carrier on the front porch with a thich fuzzy throw in it. Which, by the way, needs to be washed. Another thing to add to the list.

[radu]

Easy to understand being heartbroken. Such a senseless death for the poor guy.
They could have Siamese in them but I’m not sure about Piper. A friend had a cat who had a couple of kittens like her and there was no Siamese involved. I don’t know if it’s a gene mutation or what. They’re pretty, whatever turned them out that way.

Having Tigermaus “snipped” might calm him down, might not. We have a couple who are still a bit aggressive after neutering. Shags, our most recent, is one of them. A couple pf the females are aggressive too. It seems to be more personality rather than hormones.

Pixie’s lil girlies are old enough now for their “big girl” trips to the vet and I’ll make appointments soon. They’re so small it’s hard to believe they’re old enough already.