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    Four-legged 'artilleryman' honored during retirement ceremony

    Four-legged 'artilleryman' honored

    Photo By Jason Kelly | Spc. Kyle Sheridan, 3rd Battalion, 13th Field Artillery Regiment, 75th Fires Brigade,...... read more read more

    FORT SILL, OKLAHOMA, UNITED STATES

    08.17.2010

    Story by Jason Kelly 

    Office of Strategic Communications, U.S. Army Fires Center of Excellence

    FORT SILL, Okla. - A four-legged member of the Fort Sill, Okla., community will continue to serve even after his retirement.

    Fort Sill Field Artillery Half Section personnel gathered to publicly recognize and honor one of the half section’s horses, Dinges, during a brief ceremony at Fort Sill, Aug. 17.

    Dinges joined the half section in 1989. Fort Sill’s Field Artillery Half Section is the only horse-drawn artillery unit in the U.S. Army and one of only seven Army equestrian special ceremonial units. It is an authentic representation of half of an artillery section of the late 1920s. After 21 years of service, Dinges will retire to the Spirit Horse Chisholm Trail Therapy Center in Comanche, Okla.

    At the age of 28, he will continue to serve the community through service with special needs children in the southwest Oklahoma area.

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    Date Taken: 08.17.2010
    Date Posted: 08.17.2010 18:46
    Story ID: 54734
    Location: FORT SILL, OKLAHOMA, US

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