SSG Private RallyPoint Member 6055347 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Been requesting an assignment on the east coast for the last 2 months and now I just received an email saying that I&#39;m going to Fort Sill. I have a baby due in January and my wife has job connections in the NC, TN, VA area (family lives in NC). Definitely wasn&#39;t expecting to end up in the midwest. I&#39;m just trying to figure out what I&#39;m in for and if anyone has had experience requesting a change in duty assignment. Up until now I&#39;ve lined up my PCS with my reenlistments so I&#39;ve never had this issue. 2020-06-29T21:27:24-04:00 SSG Private RallyPoint Member 6055347

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Been requesting an assignment on the east coast for the last 2 months and now I just received an email saying that I&#39;m going to Fort Sill. I have a baby due in January and my wife has job connections in the NC, TN, VA area (family lives in NC). Definitely wasn&#39;t expecting to end up in the midwest. I&#39;m just trying to figure out what I&#39;m in for and if anyone has had experience requesting a change in duty assignment. Up until now I&#39;ve lined up my PCS with my reenlistments so I&#39;ve never had this issue.

2020-06-29T21:27:24-04:00 2020-06-29T21:27:24-04:00 SGT Steve McFarland 6055370

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I&#39;m sure Lawton and Fort Sill have changed a lot since 1977, but both were pretty nice when I was there. (2/75 - 6/77).

2020-06-29T21:39:12-04:00 2020-06-29T21:39:12-04:00 SGT Robert Pryor 6055392

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Set your watch back twenty years.

2020-06-29T21:47:50-04:00 2020-06-29T21:47:50-04:00 SGT Justin Brothen 6055394

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>How many years in? Are you making a career? I ask because a buddy pcs&#39;d from germany to hood hated it, reenlisted with choice of station. He went back to Germany

2020-06-29T21:48:30-04:00 2020-06-29T21:48:30-04:00 MAJ Byron Oyler 6055427

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>It is all that you make of it. FT Bliss was the last place I wanted to go and is my second best assignment. FT Sill is not far from OKC and Dallas.

2020-06-29T22:02:40-04:00 2020-06-29T22:02:40-04:00 SGT Private RallyPoint Member 6055698

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Hour and a half from OKC, 3 hours from Dallas, everything is empty during the week (px, gyms, commissary) obviously a bunch of artillery dudes both Field and Air Defense... a lot of history there.... I made the best of my time there reclassing ... best of luck

2020-06-29T23:57:35-04:00 2020-06-29T23:57:35-04:00 MAJ Private RallyPoint Member 6055881

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Got assigned to Sill right out of Army Anesthesia school. Was there Jan 2012 - Jun 2015. The post was ok with normal Army facilities. The hospital shut down all inpatient stuff a few years back. No ER, surgeries, OB, floor stuff. Elgin is close by and seemed to me an ideal place to live with easy access to OKC, Lawton, and post. Lots of stuff to do in OKC area. Lawton is OK and has enough stuff like restaurants, shopping, auto dealers, etc for most stuff. My wife ended up driving about a hour one-way for work in OKC (she’s a nurse). Wasn’t bad place just not enough to want to go back, look for work, live there again.

2020-06-30T01:16:23-04:00 2020-06-30T01:16:23-04:00 CW2 Private RallyPoint Member 6057157

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I would call your branch manager and explain the situation. I have done this before and it worked for me. The worst they can say is sorry I don’t have anything else.

2020-06-30T11:00:59-04:00 2020-06-30T11:00:59-04:00 LCpl Michelle Williams 6058621

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I say request a change the worst that can happen is they say no, another way is to see who is heading to the duty station you want and contact them for a trade if possible.

2020-06-30T16:37:54-04:00 2020-06-30T16:37:54-04:00 MSG Private RallyPoint Member 6066681

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>It all depends on what unit you are going to. If it’s the Health clinic then should be fine. If it’s Basic training side then you know long hours. If it’s 75th FA or the ADA bde then you will probably deploy soon. For family either live on post or make sure you look really good around Lawton or out in Cache or Elgin area. Hope that helps.

2020-07-03T00:16:51-04:00 2020-07-03T00:16:51-04:00 1SG John V. 6080585

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Sill isn&#39;t a bad place. Its about 75 minutes from Oklahoma City and 2.5 hours from Dallas. Lots of new housing developments in recent years. Gets real hot in the summer, and real cold (with ice storms) in the winter. I&#39;ve been out of uniform for a few years so can&#39;t really comment on the various units.

2020-07-07T19:47:39-04:00 2020-07-07T19:47:39-04:00 SGT Andrew West 6089780

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>All im ganna say is have fun and stay far away from the city of lawton even tho thats were its at!! Its very dull there but super cheap. Alot of hiking if you like desert type landscaping! Also if you like to drink youll do fine haha

2020-07-10T18:25:35-04:00 2020-07-10T18:25:35-04:00 SPC John Lebiecki 6426569

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>It’s what you make of it. While I didn’t enjoy it, my daughter was born there plus my wife and I spent many 4 day weekends in Dallas. OKC is nice every once in a while. Just get away when you can because there is nothing in Lawton

2020-10-22T00:08:35-04:00 2020-10-22T00:08:35-04:00 SFC Private RallyPoint Member 6621502

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Welcome to the Army

2020-12-31T18:44:41-05:00 2020-12-31T18:44:41-05:00 2020-06-29T21:27:24-04:00