Echo Battery, 1-19th Field Artillery

08/13/2022

Echo Battery!

We wish you all the best. Ship-Ops (the process of your Trainee travelling from Fort Sill to their Advanced Individual Training unit) is well underway. You may consider printing out some of these posts that have been useful and putting them in a binder. The information shared in ITW should come in handy as your Trainee moves on to AIT and especially once they get to their first duty station.

1LT Blodgett, Ian
Warrior 5
“Wreak Havoc”

08/12/2022

Congratulations Class 61-22 on your graduation today. Good on with the rest of your future careers.

08/12/2022

Echo Battery!

Today’s ITW is titled, “Hurry-up and wait”. If you have not heard your Trainee, use the phrase, we are confident you will soon. Before moving on to AIT we wanted to make sure you had perspective regarding schedules and military life. Change is a constant in military life. So, whether it is the return date from a deployment or when your Soldier will receive orders, be prepared for schedules to change and remember Operational Security (never post dates of movement or numbers of Soldiers involved online.)

1LT Blodgett, Ian
Warrior 5
“Wreak Havoc”

08/11/2022

Echo Battery!

Our goal with, “Inside the Wire” was to provide you with daily informational posts. Do you feel better prepared for Army life?
Which post(s) was most helpful? What questions do you still have? We will pick up a new class in a few weeks and we know the new Families coming after you will appreciate your input. Thank you in advance.

1LT Blodgett, Ian
Warrior 5
“Wreak Havoc”

08/11/2022

Good evening Family and Friends of Class 61-22. Family day is finally upon us. We will do a promotion and distinguished graduates ceremony tomorrow morning at 0845. All Trainees will be released to their parents at 0900. I know they can’t wait to see you. They’ve put in a lot of hard work over the past 9 weeks. Follow the blue line on the road and the signs for the Echo Battery, 1-19 family day to reach the correct location for your Trainee.

1LT Shelton
Warrior 6
“Wreak Havoc”

08/10/2022

Echo Battery!

As graduation quickly approaches, thank you for your feedback and for joining us on the journey from civilian to Soldier. There are over 60 different locations that Trainees may ship to for the Advanced Individual Training (AIT). Every unit has a different commander and its own command climate that will determine the frequency of communication on social media. So, do not be surprised if information is not provided daily.

Know that “no news is good news.” Many AIT units allow Trainees more
access to their phones and it is possible you may have more contact with your Trainee. Just like your Trainee, we know you are ready for this next phase of Army Life.

1LT Blodgett, Ian
Warrior 5
“Wreak Havoc”

08/09/2022

Echo Battery!

We hope you will join us for family day on 11 August 2022 from 09-2000 and graduation on 12 August 2022 at 09:30.
If you cannot make it to graduation, it will be live streamed at https://livestream.com/firescenter. Remember, if you cannot watch the graduation ceremony live it will be saved for future viewing. Also, neither Fort Sill nor the Battalion will ever ask you to pay to watch graduation. Should there be technical difficulties or poor weather it may not be possible for the ceremony to be live-streamed, in the event this occurs the ceremony will be recorded and posted later in the day.

1LT Blodgett, Ian
Warrior 5
“Wreak Havoc”

Livestream.com Follow Fort Sill’s profile on Livestream for updates on live events.

08/08/2022

Echo Battery!

We know all of you are excited for this week and next. So, we wanted to take a few moments to highlight the upcoming events. If you are not already following us on Facebook, please consider doing so. We post information on this site.
More info on upcoming events is below.

1LT Blodgett, Ian
Warrior 5
“Wreak Havoc”

08/08/2022

Good Morning Family and Friends of Class 61-22. Below is a copy of the Graduation Letter your Trainees should have sent out in case you never received it.

Family day is August 11 from 0900-2000
Graduation is August 12 at 0930

08/07/2022

Echo Battery!

Family and Friends check out this video developed by the Brigade to give you an insight on what is happening this week. Please note that these videos were pre-made. Therefore, our Trainees will not be seen in the video.

1LT Blodgett, Ian
Warrior 5
“Wreak Havoc”

08/06/2022

Echo Battery!

The Soldier Ceremony is the culminating event of The Forge when your Trainee earn the title of Soldier. They will put on their berets and the Army patch for the first time. In today’s ITW, we want to share some information to help you better understand the ceremony which is steeped in tradition and full of symbolism.

1LT Blodgett, Ian
Warrior 5
“Wreak Havoc”