The Mighty Ninth

Strive To Reach The Summit


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SR-8.jpgReunion Photos - Stu Royle116 viewsReady - Set - Mingle.
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SR-9.jpgReunion Photos - Stu Royle116 viewsNew weapon. Lee Dixon takes a close look at the weapon now used in training.
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JO-4.JPGReunion Photos - Jerry Orr116 viewsMike Kurtgis objects! "But wait a minute, Drill Sergeant! What if I don't want to get up at 0500?"
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Carol_Crochet.jpgThe Waldman Collection - Miscellaneous116 viewsOur ladies have a chat at the reunion.
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Key_Gate.JPGGuarding The Gate115 viewsWell, Gents, the 105mm howitzer, M101A1, has remained here as the "gate guardian" at Ft. Sill for over 50 years!

Welcome Home, Brothers! It's been a long, long time.
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DF-17.JPGReunion Photos - Danny "Cowboy" Fort115 viewsWell, maybe veterans Geary Burrows and Jim Connolly didn't care for the food, but Terry Stuber is ready to go back for more. Featured dessert item was soft-serve ice cream in both vanilla and chocolate flavors.
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DF-15.JPGReunion Photos - Danny "Cowboy" Fort115 viewsWe observe the basic trainees undergoing the hand grenade toss for record scoring. We even got a chance to toss some grenades ourselves!
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DY-12.jpgReunion Photos - Danny Yates115 viewsFt Sill's warfare training includes urban-warfare based scenarios as our Instructor guides through a mock-up building. This whole training format used highly technical Hollywood-like sound stages with several technicians behind the scenes to manipulate the settings.
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DY-13.jpgReunion Photos - Danny Yates115 viewsGiving it the ol' "heave-ho". During our basic training orientation of new soldiers on the record hand-grenade course on Thursday morning, the "old soldiers" were invited to try their hand at it. The tennis-ball size training grenades contained a primer only and usually rolled a few feet after tossing...then you heard a "pop".
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SR-10.jpgReunion Photos - Stu Royle115 viewsField Firing Demo: these are our replacements, guys! Do they look good or what?
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SR-11.jpgReunion Photos - Stu Royle115 viewsA close examination of the 155mm breech. If you value your fingers, they will not go anywhere near the breech.
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JO-1.JPGReunion Photos - Jerry Orr115 viewsWe old "war vets" relive the days of our basic training...from the ancient 60's to the year 2013.
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