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    Directions to Draft Weekend Cabin

    The good folks at Roberts Retreat Lodge say that Google's directions to the cabin are wrong. So following these instead: 

    HERE ARE THE DRIVING DIRECTIONS:

    Unfortunately, Google Maps and Mapquest do not take you to the correct location with the address. From wherever you are located, you can google "Vamoosa, OK" and the property is only 4 miles East from there, so this will give you an approximate driving time. So first look up directions to Vamoosa, OK and then follow these instructions ...

    •Off Hwy 377/99, turn EAST onto EW1400 Rd - there is a black sign with white letters “Vamoosa Baptist Church” where you turn (this road is directly on the N side of the Vamoosa Cemetery)

    •Continue straight past the church on your Right, through the 4-way stop, stay to the Right when the road V’s (by the mailboxes on the right), and continue past the “Dead End” sign

    •Turn Right into the Roberts Retreat gate entrance

    •Go for ¼ of a mile and make your FIRST LEFT

    •Continue on this road and take your FIRST RIGHT (do NOT go through the RED gates)

    •Go through the black gate and continue to the Lodge
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    Doc Stephens Added to Membership Waiting List

    Michael "Doc" Stephens has been added to the waiting list for OIL membership. Should a position open up, he's first in line. Doc Stephens spent the 2006 SECFOR mission with the 158 as head medic. 
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    2016 Draft Day Countdown

    The first draft (the PFC) will begin at 1000 on September 4, 2016 at Roberts Retreat Lodge in Konawa, Oklahoma. 
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    10 Years On: Remembering SGT Jeremy King

    Ten years ago today, SGT Jeremy King was killed by a sniper in Baghdad. He was not a part of the 158 or the Oklahoma Army National Guard, but he was a brother-in-arms. On August 24, 2006, he was killed in an area close to where my squad went most days. Needless to say, it affected me. I was an audio witness that day and eventually wrote about his death in a piece titled "The Radio." I share it today to keep the memory of SGT King alive. I didn't know him, but he had brothers-in-arms, friends, family, a wife, and a daughter who all loved him very much. He deserves to be remembered. "The Radio" is reproduced after the jump. 

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    REMINDER: 2016 Draft Orders

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    ​This was originally published January 28, 2016.

    AFC
    1. Rebel Alliance
    2. Steel Reign
    3. Brewmasters
    4. Doughboys
    5. Mutinous Apes
    6. War Pony 
    7. Vultures
    8. Sawtooths
    9. Redlegs
    10. Hooligans
    11. Warm Bodies
    12. Hillier
    13. Cocks
    14. Negligent Discharges
    NFC
    1. DARC NARCS
    2. Hard Targets
    3. Norman Nobodies
    4. Lucky Enuf
    5. AMMODOGS
    6. Arrogant Americans
    7. Roughnecks
    8. Dirty Hippies
    9. Hangovers
    10. Whackers
    11. Dead Again
    12. SoonerJack
    13. DominationStation
    14. Dogs of War 
    PFC
    1. Vandals
    2. The Xtreme
    3. Team Tadlock
    4. Great Plains Drifters
    5. Mechanics
    6. Blue Falcons
    7. Red Ball Express
    8. SECFOR Sixers
    9. Dirty Dogs
    10. Orangebloods
    11. Nightmares
    12. Enforcers
    13. FDC Chiefs
    14. Boomtown Brawlers
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    RateMyLeague.com to Again Preview the OIL

    Good news, folks. Back by popular demand, the folks at Rate My League will be previewing all three OIL conferences after their Labor Day weekend drafts. Here is what they had to say about the NFC and AFC last season.

    For reference, Rate My League ranked the contenders in the NFC, in order, to be:
    1. Hard Targets
    2. DARC NARCS
    3. DominationStation
    4. Hangovers
    5. Roughnecks
    6. Norman Nobodies
    7. Lucky Enuf
    8. SoonerJack
    9. AMMODOGS
    Only three of those teams failed to make the playoffs, so their analysis was pretty good considering it was not accounting for in-season roster management.

    The team they hated the most was the Whackers​, who did finish in last place in 2015. 

    In the AFC, they predicted the following teams would be playoff contenders, in no particular order:
    • Doughboys
    • Hillier FF
    • Rebel Alliance
    • Steel Reign
    • Warm Bodies
    • War Pony
    • Vultures
    • Redlegs
    Four of those teams did make the playoffs and RateMyTeam.com's preseason favorite, War Pony, won its second-straight championship.