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The 45th Infantry Division gained its nickname, “Thunderbird” division, from the gold thunderbird. This Native American symbol became the division’s insignia in 1939. It replaced another previously used Native American symbol, a swastika, that was withdrawn when it became closely associated with the Nazi party.
Read moreFor most Oklahomans, as for most Americans, the Korean War provoked a strange mix of deep concern and growing indifference between 1950 and 1953. The unprovoked invasion of South Korea by communist North Korean forces seemed clear proof of the threat posed to the United States and its allies by the Soviet Union and its own client states and seemed an unsettling harbinger of the growing danger of open, possibly nuclear, warfare between East and West.
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Two local military personnel, one that has served and one that is new to the military, have a special bond.
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(Previously ran in Producer on 11-11-09)
Read moreCommunity News by Damon Scott February 3, 2020
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INTERESTING ENGINEERING - The US Army has conducted a combined live-fire exercise at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, integrating high-energy laser systems with kinetic air-defense assets.
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FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghan-istan— U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Steven C. Staley, an information network analyst for the 580th Signal Company, is known for his selfless volunteerism and his sense of hu-mor.
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