Court stops Sill expansion disputed by tribe
The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Aug 21, 2008 13:02:04 EDT
LAWTON, Okla. — A federal court order has stopped work on an expansion project at Fort Sill that the Comanche Nation claims would be built on sacred ground.
U.S. District Judge Timothy D. DeGiusti granted the temporary restraining order Monday that stops construction of a warehouse intended to be the new home of the post’s Training Service Center.
Col. Robert Bridgford, the Fort Sill garrison commander, held a news conference Aug. 14 claiming that the warehouse was about one-third of a mile from the Medicine Bluff National Historic Feature and that discussions with the tribe were ongoing.
The Comanche Nation filed a lawsuit in Oklahoma City federal court the next day to stop the warehouse construction, which is part of an expansion ordered by the Army’s Base Closure and Realignment Commission in 2005. The BRAC changes could add as many as 10,000 active-duty personnel, students and family members at the post.
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