The Lawton Constitution:

The U.S. Army’s Air Defense Artillery celebrated the soft opening of its new Air Defense Artillery Training Support Facility at Fort Sill, on Thursday, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Lt. Gen. Daniel Karbler, commander of the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command and Joint Functional Component Command for Integrated Missile Defense, was on hand to give remarks about the history of Air Defense Artillery, and the branch’s efforts to relocate its museum and artifacts to Fort Sill from Fort Bliss, Texas.

“Today we are afforded the opportunity to install the Air Defense Training Support Facility, where we will house all our air defense artifacts dating all the way back to World War I, from Vietnam to Desert Storm,” Karbler said. “We’ll have training classrooms so our classes of future air defense leaders, whether they’re lieutenants, captains, young AIT soldiers, or noncommissioned officers will be able to come up, train, study, and learn about the air defense history.”

Karbler said that the facility would also house a library for students conducting research for papers or articles about air defense. Students also will have access to the history and information through the research library…

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