Seiling grad receives military promotion
Former Dewey County resident Robert Hedges was recently promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) in the Oklahoma Army National Guard during a ceremony at the Armed Forces Reserve Center in Mustang, OK. Hedges has more than 26 years of service in the Oklahoma National Guard and is a 1985 graduate of Seiling High School. He has made his home in the Lawton, OK area since graduating from Cameron University in 1989. He enlisted in the Oklahoma Army National Guard at Elk City in 1987 as a Private First Class (PFC) and completed Basic training and Advanced Individual Training as a Cannon Crewmember (13B) at Fort Sill, OK in December of that year. Hedges was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Field Artillery in 1989 after completing Army Reserve Officer’s Training Corps at Cameron University.
