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Army Reserve Firefighters Conduct Burn Scenario
July 20, 2021 — Smoke billowed from the house as firefighters put on their gear and prepared to enter the firefighter training complex at the Fort McCoy Fire Department’s Station #2, July 16, 2021. Only this time the firefighters were part of the Army Reserve’s 467th Engineer Company (Firefighter Headquarters) out of Des Moines, Iowa, who were here conducting annual training... MORE

393rd Psychological Operations Company trains at Fort McCoy
July 19, 2021 — Venturing into rolling green fields and lush summer foliage, this morning finds US Army Reserve Soldiers and leaders on a mission. Capt. Samuel Tunstall, operations officer of the 16th Psychological Operations Battalion, 2nd Psychological Group, United States Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command, identified one of his hardworking subject matter experts and professionals to share their story... MORE

Fort Hunter Liggett in White House Virtual Tour
July 19, 2021 — Fort Hunter Liggett was the only Army installation selected to participate in a Department of Defense-wide White House Virtual Tour, hosted by Andrew Mayock, Federal Chief Sustainability Officer for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, July 2, 2021... MORE

Fort Lee hosts IPPS-A training for personnel, pay professionals
July 19, 2021 — Human resource and financial management professionals from various installations around the country converged at Fort Lee July 6-16 to learn about the Army’s newest personnel and pay information management system... MORE

Army Reserve Couple Supports COVID-19 Federal Response
July 16, 2021 — The primary mission of the 4th Expeditionary Sustainment Command is to provide logistical support to combat units in a deployed environment. However, the command headquarters mobilized for a unique, state-side mission in 2020. Soldiers from the 4th ESC mobilized in March 2020 to provide logistical support to military medical service providers and aid in the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the mobilized 4th ESC Soldiers who supported this special mission was Capt. Paul Nitzsche. Paul is a mobility logistics officer. He mobilized with the 4th ESC’s Support Operation Section, where he planned, coordinated, tracked, and executed movements for medical personal supporting hospitals and community vaccination centers across the nation. His wife, Capt. Holli Nitzsche, also mobilized to support the federal response to COVID-19. She served as a Clinical Operations Nurse with the Joint Force Land Component Command Office of the Surgeon (JFLCC Surgeon)... MORE

PHOTOS: 472nd CBRN Battalion Soldiers complete weapons qualification
July 16, 2021 — Soldiers from the 472nd Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Battalion conduct Operation Rolling Thunder at Fort McCoy, Wis., April 12-13, 2021. The purpose of the training is to achieve the new individual weapons qualifications for the M9, M4 and M249 guns while simultaneously qualifying their crew-served weapon systems M249, M240B, and .50 caliber guns... MORE

Soldiers complete weapons qualification for M2 and M240 machine guns at Fort McCoy, WI - Total Force Training Center

Army Reserve Soldiers conduct a diagnostic ACFT ahead of roll out
July 15, 2021 — Soldiers assigned to the 85th U.S. Army Reserve Support Command and 84th Training Division conducted a diagnostic Army Combat Fitness Test during their battle assembly weekend training, in Arlington Heights, Illinois, July 10-11, 2021... MORE

Staff Sgt. Alyssa N. Fowler, center, Human Resources Non-commissioned Officer, 84th Training Division, pulls a 90-pound sled during the Sprint-Drag-Carry portion of the Army Combat Fitness Test.

Cali Army Reserve unit hits the road supporting Operation Patriot Press
July 15, 2021 — Soldiers from the U.S. Army Reserve’s 250th Transportation Company drove 5,000 miles across six states to transport vital munitions in support of Operation Patriot Press, making two stops at Tooele Army Depot (TEAD), Utah... MORE

Maj. Gen. Richard Staats relinquishes command of 75th Innovation Command
July 14, 2021 — Maj. Gen. Richard C. Staats relinquished command of the 75th Innovation Command, the senior military headquarters in the fourth-largest city in the U.S., as well as the surrounding region, July 10. Staats retires from the U.S. Army Reserve on July 15... MORE

Military family continues proud tradition of patriotism, service as officers
July 13, 2021 — James Ammons Jr. didn’t have to look for heroes as a little boy. Everyone he looked up to looked down at him from his grandmother’s ‘Wall of Heroes,’ as he strolled down the hallway. And they all share a family resemblance. Of his grandmother’s 16 children – 10 boys and six girls – every male (one son died before adulthood) would don a military uniform... MORE

Military proud family continues tradition of patriotism, service as officers

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