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Lawton Constitution - Mitch Meador
The sun popped out at Fort Sill on Thursday after Army officials announced where the 40,000 cuts to its active force would be.
Fort Sill will have zero job cuts, according to Joe Gallagher, deputy to the commanding general of the Fires Center of Excellence and Fort Sill.
It’s one of only four installations that will see gains from the Army’s force structure decisions and stationing plan — and the only one seeing triple-digit growth, he added.
The Oklahoma - Chris Casteel
Fort Sill, the U.S. Army artillery post in southwestern Oklahoma, will gain more than 200 positions over the next two years while other bases are hit with deep personnel cuts.
The Army, which must reduce its active duty ranks by 40,000 and its civilian workforce by 17,000, released its specific base-by-base changes on Thursday. While bases in Texas, Georgia, Alaska and other states are absorbing thousands of lost positions, Fort Sill will gain 219 active duty slots.
Indian Country Today - Harlan McKosato
The campaign to bring the remains of legendary Native athlete Jim Thorpe home is gathering support after lawyers representing Thorpe’s two remaining sons, Bill and Richard Thorpe, along with the Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma, filed a writ of certiorari to petition the Court to hear their case after losing in U.S Appeals Court last October.
KGOU - Brian Hardzinski
Former U.S. Rep. Brad Carson has been formally nominated for the position of Under Secretary for Personnel and Readiness at the U.S. Department of Defense.
Carson has been serving in that role as the acting under secretary since April. He previously worked as Under Secretary of the Army, which is the branch's second-highest civilian position, and before that as the Army's general counsel.
The Oklahoman - Editorial Board
President Barack Obama said last week, on the day a deadline passed to reach an agreement with Iran on nuclear weapons, that, “I will walk away from the negotiations if in fact it’s a bad deal.” If only he truly meant that.
Instead, Obama has given the impression that he wants to reach a deal — any deal — with Iran, despite the country’s bad acts and its mullahs’ long history of saying one thing and doing another.