The girls and I attended the annual tree lighting ceremony last night here at Fort Sill.
The Big Deuce Battalion sang Big Deuces 12 days of Christmas. Each verse ends in “and a salute for Reveille. A cannon fires! (It is after all a field artillery post)
Then Santa arrives with the Fort Sill Half Section. This equine unit is for ceremonial purposes only and is the last in existance in todays army. The Half Section is “ A horse-drawn field artillery section had one six-horse team pulling a cannon and another six-horse team hitched to a ammunition carrier caisson. Fort Sill’s unit is called a half section because it includes only the gun team.” For the tree lighting there were only 4 horses pulling.
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