Fort Sill
Lawton, Oklahoma · Nearest airport: LAW (12 min drive)
Most families fly into OKC (90 min) instead. The local airport isn’t a typical commercial hub.
Start here
What happens at Family Day
The Wednesday-morning ceremony, the pass that lets you walk on post together, what your Soldier can and can’t do until evening.
Graduation morning, step by step
Gate to use, when parking fills, where to sit at the ceremony field, how long the ceremony runs.
Hotels (6 recommended)
Drive times to the gate, whether breakfast is open before you leave, prices. Sorted by what matters on graduation morning, not by who pays us most.
Packing list
What to bring for the bleachers, what your Soldier wants when you arrive, the things families come back and say they wish they’d packed.
Specialty track at Sill
The Sill BCT route above is the primary surface most families use. The specialty OSUT page below is supplementary — useful if you specifically searched for it.
Where to find verified Sill info while we curate
Until we’ve fully populated Sill content here, these sources are authoritative. Each is the official place the garrison itself points families to.
- Garrison website
- home.army.mil/sill
- Visitor information
- home.army.mil/sill/my-fort/visitor-information
- Public Affairs phone
- 580-442-2052
- Public Affairs email
- usarmy.sill.fcoe.mbx.434-fa-bde-pao@army.mil
When a fact changes between our verification dates and your trip, the garrison source above is the authority — not us. We update from the same sources on a quarterly cadence (see docs/DATA_REFRESH_PLAYBOOK.md).