Oklahoma Military Department Police

Happy Hump Day!!!!!!!

Day 2 of learning about the FAFO class of Oklahoma Law Enforcement.

Mary Horn was the Tulsa Police Department’s first African-American female officer. She was hired in 1939 at the age of 42 and served for 23 years. She patrolled some of the more dangerous areas in the city. She was awarded Officer of the Year in 1958 for her work in solving the sexual assault of a six-year-old child. Horn retired in 1962 and died in 1987 at the age of 89. Her survivors include her son Kermit, who was the first African American officer promoted to lieutenant; and a son Clifford, who was one of the Tulsa Fire Department’s first African American firefighters.

Day 1 of learning about Oklahoma's FAFO class of law enforcement
Bass Reeves

Deputy US Marshal Bass Reeves (deceased) was born as a slave in Arkansas Territory in 1838. He grew up in Texas where he took the surname of his master, George Reeves. As a young man he escaped into Indian Territory where he became friends with the Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole Indians.

After serving as a guide for US marshals for several years, Reeves was commissioned in 1875 as a deputy marshal, riding out of Ft. Smith Federal Judge Isaac Parker's court into Indian Territory, given his knowledge of the Indian Territory and ability to speak several Indian languages. Reeves worked thirty=two years as a federal peace officer before retiring from federal service in 1907.

During his tenure as a marshal he had arrested over 3,000 felons, admitted having to shoot and kill fourteen outlaws in defending his life while making arrests, and became one of the "most feared" US marshals in Indian Territory.

At the time of Oklahoma's statehood in 1907, Reeves, at the age of sixty-eight, became a member of the Muskogee Oklahoma Police Department. Reeves and his wife Nellie Jennie raised a family of ten children, five boys and five girls. In 1992 Reeves was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Center. In 2007 the US Route 62 Bridge crossing the Arkansas River, connecting Muskogee with Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, was named the Bass Reeves Memorial Bridge in his honor.

I like to think this is how OMD rolled back in the day.

Happy birthday to the Marine Corp. Thank you for your service to our Marine Corp OMDP Officers. James Nelson and Phillip Douglas.

About this time, 19 years ago 246 people went to sleep in preparation for their morning flights.

2,606 people went to sleep in preparation for work in the morning.

343 firefighters went to sleep in preparation for their morning shift.

60 police officers went to sleep in preparation for morning patrol.

8 paramedics went to sleep in preparation for the morning shift.

None of them lived past 10:28am Sept 11, 2001.

In one single moment life may never be the same. As you live and enjoy the breaths you take today and tonight before you go to sleep in preparation for your life tomorrow, kiss the ones you love, snuggle a little tighter, and never take one second of your life for granted.

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