Fort Sill

Star House Photo courtesy of Comanche National Museum and Cultural Center.

Star House Photo courtesy of Comanche National Museum and Cultural Center.

IF WALLS COULD TALK

Debi DeSilver Managing Editor
Friday, November 26, 2021
One of the most prominent visitors to Comanche Chief Quanah Parker’s Fort Sill home, known as the Star House, was President Theodore Roosevelt.
Matthew Priest, center, assistant manager of the Fort Sill and Fort Gibson National Cemeteries, stands with cemetery volunteers following a ceremony remembering the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. KYLETTA RAY/LEDGER PHOTO

Matthew Priest, center, assistant manager of the Fort Sill and Fort Gibson National Cemeteries, stands with cemetery volunteers following a ceremony remembering the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. KYLETTA RAY/LEDGER PHOTO

Fort Sill National Cemetery director remembers Sept. 11 attacks

Eric Swanson
Thursday, September 16, 2021
FORT SILL NATIONAL CEMETERY — A small group of people listened Friday as Matthew Priest recounted his memories of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.   Priest, who serves as assistant manager of the Fort Sill and Fort Gibson National Cemeteries, was a fifth-grader 20 years ago.
U.S. Army Photo By Marion Jo Nederhoed The joint Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office is heading an effort to develop training for soldiers to counter drone threats, which includes establishment of a school at Fort. Sill

U.S. Army Photo By Marion Jo Nederhoed The joint Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office is heading an effort to develop training for soldiers to counter drone threats, which includes establishment of a school at Fort. Sill

Fort Sill academy to train soldiers how to defeat threats from drones

Mike W. Ray Staff Writer
Thursday, July 15, 2021
FORT SILL – Training soldiers how to defeat threats from unmanned aerial vehicles – drones – is being developed under the oversight of the Fires Center of Excellence at Fort Sill, in conjunction with the Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-sUAS) Academy at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona.
Country music singer Trace Adkins will headline Fort Sill's Armed Forces Day Concert Saturday on Polo Field.

Country music singer Trace Adkins will headline Fort Sill's Armed Forces Day Concert Saturday on Polo Field.

Adkins to headline Fort Sill concert; Freedom Festival to return June 26

Staff Reports
Thursday, May 13, 2021
Country music singer Trace Adkins will headline Fort Sill’s Armed Forces Day Concert this Saturday on Polo Field. The concert will be free and open to the public, and gates will open at 6 p.m. The 77th Army Band will play at 6:30 p.m., followed by special guest The Powell Brothers and Adkins.
Col Overby & Marija Fine

Col Overby & Marija Fine

Fort Sill Remembrance

Tim Farley
Monday, April 19, 2021
Marija Fine was an infant in March 1944 when Nazi soldiers wrestled her from her mother’s arms and shipped the baby to orphanages in Latvia and Germany. She would never see her biological mother again.
LEDGER PHOTO BY KYLETTA RAY - Comanche Station southeast of Lawton is Public Service Co. of Oklahoma’s natural gas-fired 248-megawatt electric generation plant.

LEDGER PHOTO BY KYLETTA RAY - Comanche Station southeast of Lawton is Public Service Co. of Oklahoma’s natural gas-fired 248-megawatt electric generation plant.

Corp Comm holds hearing on Ft. Sill project

Mike W. Ray Staff Writer
Thursday, April 8, 2021
OKLAHOMA CITY – The electric “resiliency” project that Public Service Co. of Oklahoma proposes to build at Fort Sill in collaboration with the U.S. Army encountered some resistance at the state Corporation Commission recently.
Comanche Station southeast of Lawton is PSO’s natural-gas fired 248-megawatt electric generation plant. Photo courtesy PSO

Comanche Station southeast of Lawton is PSO’s natural-gas fired 248-megawatt electric generation plant. Photo courtesy PSO

Hearing held on PSO ‘resiliency’ project at Fort Sill

Mike W. Ray Staff Writer
Friday, April 2, 2021
OKLAHOMA CITY – The electric “resiliency” project that the Public Service Co. of Oklahoma proposes to build at Fort Sill in collaboration with the U.S. Army encountered some resistance at the state Corporation Commission recently.
Ledger photo by Mike W. Ray Traci Carter, director of the School Age Center, inspects some of the items that had to be moved during cleanup from flooding after a pipe burst in the building last Thursday. The items included toys, games, office supplies, a 3D printer and a conventional desktop printer, computer disks, carts for computer tablets and laptops, accreditation files, soccer balls and footballs, sewing machines, paint, Valentine’s Day and Christmas decorations, and numerous other things.

Ledger photo by Mike W. Ray Traci Carter, director of the School Age Center, inspects some of the items that had to be moved during cleanup from flooding after a pipe burst in the building last Thursday. The items included toys, games, office supplies, a 3D printer and a conventional desktop printer, computer disks, carts for computer tablets and laptops, accreditation files, soccer balls and footballs, sewing machines, paint, Valentine’s Day and Christmas decorations, and numerous other things.

Ft. Sill recovering from freeze damage

Mike W. Ray Staff Writer
Thursday, February 25, 2021
FORT SILL – Several buildings and more than 300 homes at Fort Sill were damaged in last week’s Arctic weather, but recovery was relatively swift, Garrison Command Sgt. Maj. Russell R. Blackwell said Tuesday.

RAHC enters first phase of vaccinations

From Staff Reports
Saturday, February 6, 2021
FORT SILL – Reynolds Army Health Clinic has transitioned into the first tier of Phase 1C in the COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan, which opens the vaccine eligibility to TRICARE beneficiaries age 65 and older, the clinic reported.
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