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Standing out amongst his peers in outstanding marksmanship and leadership qualities, PFC Franks was selected to attend the Artillery and Missile Officer Candidate School, Fort Sill, Oklahoma and was commissioned a second lieutenant in 1967.
After an initial tour as a battery Assistant Executive Officer at Fort Sill, he was assigned to the US 9th Infantry Division, Republic of Vietnam, where he served as Forward observer, Aerial observer, and Assistant S-3 with 2nd Battalion, 4th Field Artillery.
In 1968, Franks returned to Fort Sill, where he commanded a cannon battery in the Artillery Training Center.
During 1991-1992, he was assigned as Assistant Commandant of the Field Artillery School at Fort Sill.
In 1876, Grant's reputation was damaged by his White House deposition defending his personal secretary Orville Babcock, indicted in the Whiskey Ring graft trials, and his Secretary of War William W. Belknap's resignation, impeachment by the House, and trial in the Senate over receiving profit money from the Fort Sill tradership.
Also in this session, Garfield and John Coburn uncovered corruption in the Post Tradership Office at Fort Sill — control of supplies had been monopolized, with overpricing occurring.
* Fort Sill, a United States Army post near Lawton, Oklahoma, named for Joshua W. Sill
Today two branches of the tribe are federally recognized as independent units: the Fort Sill Apache Tribe, located near Apache, Oklahoma ; and the Chiricahua tribe located on the Mescalero Apache reservation near Ruidoso, New Mexico.
After a number of deaths of Chiricahua at the Fort Marion prison near St. Augustine, Florida, the survivors were moved, first to Alabama, and later to Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
Eventually, the surviving Chiricahua prisoners were moved to the Fort Sill military reservation in Oklahoma.
Although promised land at Fort Sill, they met resistance from local non-Apache.
They were given the choice to remain at Fort Sill or to relocate to the Mescalero reservation near Ruidoso, New Mexico.
The Chiricahua-Warm Springs Fort Sill Apache tribe in Oklahoma say they have four bands in Fort Sill:
* Mildred Cleghorn, first tribal chairperson at the Fort Sill Reservation, elected in 1976
The prototype SPH vehicle is on display at the cannon park at Fort Sill.
Today, the Comanche Nation Comanche tribal enrollment numbers 15, 191 with approximately 7, 763 members residing in the Lawton – Fort Sill and surrounding areas of Southwest Oklahoma.
In 1875, the last free band of Comanches, led by Quahada warrior Quanah Parker, surrendered and moved to the Fort Sill reservation in Oklahoma.
The 1890 Census showed 1, 598 Comanche at the Fort Sill reservation, which they shared with 1, 140 Kiowa and 326 Kiowa Apache.
In 1875, the last free band of Comanches, led by Quanah Parker, surrendered and moved to the Fort Sill reservation in Oklahoma.

Fort and Apache
The 1981 film Fort Apache, The Bronx is another film that used the Bronx's gritty image for its storyline.
The movie's title is from the nickname for the 41st Police Precinct in the South Bronx which was nicknamed " Fort Apache ".
While the Pixies were playing a concert with Throwing Muses, they were noticed by producer Gary Smith, manager of Fort Apache Studios.
" The band produced a 17-track demo at Fort Apache soon afterwards, known to fans as " The Purple Tape " because of the tape cover's purple background.
The US established a Chiricahua Apache Reservation with Jeffords as US Agent, near Fort Bowie, Arizona Territory.
From Bowie Station, Arizona, they were entrained, along with most of the other remaining Chiricahua ( as well as the Army's Apache scouts ), and exiled to Fort Marion, Florida.
( 2007 ) Apache, Spanish, and Protohistoric Archaeology on Fort Bliss.
Fonda played Wyatt Earp in John Ford's My Darling Clementine ( 1946 ) and appeared in the film Fort Apache ( 1948 ) as a rigid Army colonel, along with John Wayne and Shirley Temple in her first adult role.
His next posting was to Fort Apache, Arizona.
Jerry Gonzalez founded the jazz group the Fort Apache Band, which included his brother Andy and established a new standard for Latin jazz.
Apache County contains parts of the Navajo Indian Reservation, the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, and Petrified Forest National Park.
The reservations are, in descending order of area within the county, the Navajo Indian Reservation, the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, and the Zuni Indian Reservation, all of which are partly located within the county.
Gila County contains parts of Fort Apache Indian Reservation and San Carlos Indian Reservation.
Navajo County contains parts of the Hopi Indian reservation, the Navajo Nation and Fort Apache Indian Reservation.
In descending order of territory within the county, the reservations are the Navajo Indian Reservation, Hopi Indian Reservation, and Fort Apache Indian Reservation, all of which are partly located within Navajo County.
Two decades later, Sterling became a U. S. Marshal in Arizona and was killed in an Apache ambush near Fort Apache.

Fort and Tribal
* Fort Yuma-Quechan Tribe, Inter Tribal Council of Arizona
Timothy Williams, tribal chairman for the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe, shakes hands with President Barack Obama during the 2011 Tribal Nations Conference in Washington, D. C. There were 5, 217 households out of which 29. 6 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59. 4 % were married couples living together, 9. 1 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 26. 2 % were non-families.
The town hosts the Aaniiih Nakoda College, as well as other facilities such as the Fort Belknap Hospital, an office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Fort Belknap Tribal Council and Tribal Police, and a highway rest area.

Fort and Chairman
He retired in 1965 and moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he was Founding Chairman of the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
Then in 1948 – 1949, he spent a year as the Chairman of the Army Advisory Board for Amphibious Operations, at Fort Monroe, Virginia.
While serving as Vice Chairman of Enron Energy Services White had actively pursued military contracts for the company and in 1999 had secured a prototype deal at Fort Hamilton for privatising the power supply of army bases.
Additionally, he held the Distinguished Chair of Environmental Acoustics, was a Research Associate at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Chairman of Membership of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, served on the University & College Accreditation Board, and was President of the Fort Trumbull Federal Credit Union.
* Joe Plumeri, Chairman & CEO of Willis Group Holdings, and owner of the Trenton Thunder, was in the Army Reserves at Fort Jackson in 1968.

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