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Study would be needed before ending C-130 program in Oklahoma City Published: Thu, May 10, 2012 The U.S. House Armed Services Committee has approved a defense funding bill that would delay efforts to end a program in Oklahoma City to upgrade the cockpits of U.S. Air Force C-130 transport planes. Read More
Military salutes Ellington Field renewal Published: Tue, Oct 26, 2010 In its 93-year history, Houston's Ellington Field has survived one planned closure after another. Ellington is in the midst of the largest construction project the former World War I military base has seen in more than three decades. Read More
Defending Europe Updated: Wed, Feb 24, 2010 We are standing in the Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, looking up at four heroically sized statues of a soldier, sailor, airman and a Coast Guardsman. Behind them on a 472-foot-long Wall of the Missing are the words "All who shall here after live in freedom will be reminded that to these men and their... Read More
Free topo GPS maps Updated: Mon, Oct 12, 2009 A GPS receiver is great, but software can add sharply to the cost, especially if you want detailed topographic maps. However, some web sites offer free topo map downloads. One good source is GPSFileDepot.com. Savings can be $100 or more. Read More
Base closures bring construction Updated: Thu, Apr 23, 2009 WASHINGTON — For Oklahoma, the 2005 round of base closures was a stimulus package. Fort Sill, the Army post adjacent to Lawton, is in the midst of a construction boom to accommodate the Air Defense Artillery school moving from Fort Bliss, Texas. Tinker Air Force Base also has some new facilities because of the... Read More
U.S. Army plans to train soliders in electronic warfare at Fort Sill Published: Wed, Feb 25, 2009 FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — The Army plans to train 1,500 soldiers and officers in electronic warfare at Fort Sill, Okla., by September 2010, giving the military its largest electronic warfare cadre. These plans are in support of a new 112-page Army doctrine on electronic warfare, a copy of which was obtained... Read More
Hard sell: Detroit links bailout, national defense Published: Wed, Nov 19, 2008 WASHINGTON - In an increasingly anxious campaign for a $25 billion government rescue, Detroit's Big Three car makers and their allies in Washington are warning the demise of the auto industry will damage U.S. national security. That argument is a hard sell. General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC... Read More
Students flying high over records Updated: Tue, Jul 11, 2006 STILLWATER - An aircraft designed and built by two Oklahoma State University undergraduate students set a second world record this summer and is expected to break another this fall. Thomas Hays and Dustin Gamble, aerospace engineering students at OSU, flew their 11-pound craft named Dragonfly for 12 hours, 21... Read More
Cellular chaperone offered for children Updated: Tue, Jun 13, 2006 Attention parents: Do you know where your children are? Beginning Monday, Verizon Wireless subscribers can know exactly where their children are at any moment. The company said it has launched a child tracking service called Chaperone. Chaperone will be joined this summer by a similar service from Disney... Read More
Measure allows global tracking Updated: Wed, May 24, 2006 Legislation allowing judges to put a global tracking device on accused domestic abusers passed the House on Tuesday. House Bill 2609, by Rep. Bill Case, R-Midwest City, would place a global positioning system on those who have victim protection orders filed against them. The system would alert authorities and the... Read More
Air National Guard planes return Updated: Tue, May 9, 2006 Two Oklahoma Air National Guard planes have returned from overseas for what could be the last time. The C-130 transport planes ferried about 50 Guard personnel back from Afghanistan over the weekend, Col. Pat Scully said. It was the last scheduled deployment for members of the 137th Tactical Airlift Wing. Eight... Read More
President sends BRAC report to Congress Updated: Fri, Sep 16, 2005 WASHINGTON -- President Bush announced Thursday that he has accepted the report of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission, which calls for strengthening some of Oklahoma's active duty installations and a major reorganization of the state's National Guard and Reserve centers. The president forwarded the... Read More
Fort Bliss training unit would move to Lawton, bringing about 3,500 jobs Updated: Thu, Aug 25, 2005 WASHINGTON The base-closure commission voted unanimously Wednesday that Fort Sill should get the Air Defense Artillery school now in Texas, a move that would transfer thousands of military positions to the Lawton area post and prompt a construction boom. Lawton readies for real estate boom Read More
BRAC commission votes to move accounting positions from Fort Sill Updated: Thu, Aug 25, 2005 Fort Sill, which will gain an estimated 3,600 military and civilian jobs in the latest round of military consolidations, suffered a setback Thursday when the Base Closure and Realignment Commission voted to send 233 accounting jobs to other states. Commissioners voted to accept the Pentagon's recommendation that... Read More
Officials debate relocation plan Updated: Tue, Jul 12, 2005 WASHINGTON - Oklahoma and Texas officials offered competing opinions Monday to the base closure commission on whether Fort Sill could accommodate thousands of new troops and air defense artillery training now being conducted at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. At a hearing in San Antonio held by members of the... Read More
State contingent to attend hearing Updated: Sun, Jul 10, 2005 WASHINGTON - A contingent of Oklahomans is scheduled to speak Monday at a base realignment and closure commission hearing in San Antonio, where some Texans might argue against the Pentagon proposal that would send thousands of jobs to Fort Sill. At home on the range? Read More
At home on the range? Updated: Sun, Jul 10, 2005 FORT BLISS, Texas Three U.S. Marines stand side-byside, silhouetted against a domed movie screen of a landscape that looks eerily similar to those found in Iraq or Afghanistan. Each shoulders a mock Stinger missile. State contingent to attend hearing Read More
Businesses near Fort Bliss leery of proposed changes Updated: Sun, Jul 10, 2005 EL PASO, Texas - Blanca Arevalo doesn't need to spend much time calculating the importance of the U.S. Army's Air Defense Artillery School to her dry cleaning shop. At home on the range? State contingent to attend hearing The solid row of green camouflage uniforms hanging behind her says all she needs to... Read More
Fort Sill scenario ominous Updated: Mon, Jun 20, 2005 WASHINGTON - Last month, the Lawton area celebrated the Defense Department's recommendation to give Fort Sill a major training mission from another fort, along with more than 3,600 jobs. But just a few months before, key Pentagon officials meeting in the Army secretary's office were looking at a scenario that... Read More
Air Force rates bases by mission Updated: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 WASHINGTON - In evaluating its installations for the base closure process, the Air Force judged "military value" in eight categories, all considering how a base could host a specific kind of mission. Oklahoma's three Air Force bases did well in some categories but not as well in others. Military value is, by law,... Read More
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