CLIENT STORY U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa DistrictSUMMARY Fort Sill, Oklahoma is a United States Army post north of Lawton, Oklahoma with a long and storied history. Best known as a major cavalry base for the U.S. Army during the era of the Indian wars, in the 1890s its mission shifted from cavalry to artillery units. The fort’s vast size (approximately 94,000 acres) made it a perfect location for the practice and study of artillery and other explosives, and in 1911 Fort Sill became home to the School of Fire for the Field Artillery , a world-renowned artillery school that continues to operate today as the U.S. Army Field Artillery School. Hundreds of thousands of artillerymen from all over the world have trained at Fort Sill in the last 100 years, firing their artille

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