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Ordnance company trains at ammunition supply point
April 4, 2022 — A U.S. Army Reserve Ordnance Company chose the Ammunition Supply Point here as the site for part of its Annual Training’s collective training March 29 through April 1, 2022. This platoon training guided the Soldiers assigned to the 395th Ordnance Company, 103rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command, 377th Sustainment Command, Neenah, Wis., on several Mission Essential Tasks. They included, establish an ammunition storage area, employ general ammunition and explosives safety, challenge persons entering your area, perform surveillance without the aid of electronic devices, evaluate a casualty and react to indirect fire... MORE

Honoring women who served
March 31, 2022 — The stories of two Army Reserve women who served the nation with honor were presented during a Brown Bag by the 88th Readiness Division Historian Ward Zischke for Women's History Month... MORE

Women’s History Month: Women among thousands exceling at training at McCoy every year
March 25, 2022 — Every year, thousands of women complete some kind of training at Fort McCoy. Those women could be civil servants, or Soldiers, or even Marines, Airmen or Sailors, and they might be teaching a maintenance course or enduring cold-weather training... MORE

Photo Essay: 485th Engineer Company Prepares for Deployment
March 25, 2022 — U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers from the 485th Engineer Company out of Arlington Heights, Illinois, fought a late-winter snowstorm to conduct rail loading on Mar. 18, 2022, at Fort McCoy, Wis. The 485th was loading vehicles in preparation for their upcoming overseas deployment... MORE

Two 88th RD mechanics recall equipment volume, condition during Operation Desert Fix
March 10, 2022 — Many people are familiar with Operation Desert Shield/Storm and Operation Desert Fox. But not as many are aware of Operation Desert Fix where the heroes were the mechanics assigned to the Equipment Concentration Site 67 here... MORE

Theory of operations studied at Power Generation class
March 7, 2022 — The students in the first Fiscal Year 22’s Logistic Sustainment Training Power Generation class were the first to learn the theory of generators and extensive details on how each piece of equipment of a generator works at the 88th Readiness Division-operated Draw Yard here Feb. 26-March 3, 2022... MORE

Blue Devil Chief Paralegal NCO Joined Army Reserve to Help Family, Found a Career
February 28, 2022 — What began with a hearty belly laugh has turned into a 12-year, and counting, career in the Army Reserve for one 88th Readiness Division noncommissioned officer. Sergeant 1st Class Dexter A. Taylor, chief paralegal NCO, 88th RD, joined the Army Reserve in July 2009 after a conversation with a friend went from a laughing matter to something serious... MORE

512th Field Hospital trains at Fort McCoy
February 24, 2022 — Key leaders and staff of a U.S. Army field hospital based in Kaiserslautern, Germany, researched where their Soldiers could undergo training on how to set up a field hospital from the ground up. Regional Training Site-Medical here was chosen for the training from Feb. 7-11, 2022. The Soldiers with a variety of Military Occupational Specialties, ranging from doctors to mechanics, learned several of the means of setting up a field hospital in an austere environment... MORE

CH-47 crew, 89B students conduct sling-load training at Fort McCoy
February 18, 2022 — Students and staff with the 89B Ammunition Supply Course conducted sling-load training with a CH-47 Chinook crew at Sparta-Fort McCoy Airport on Feb. 7 at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin... MORE

After cold January, CWOC students cite Fort McCoy as ideal training location for course
February 16, 2022 — During January 2022 at Fort McCoy, weather data shows 18 of 31 days during the month had overnight temperatures in the below-zero range — one night as cold as minus 35 degrees Fahrenheit. And through those many cold nights, students in the Fort McCoy Cold-Weather Operations Course (CWOC) were training somewhere on the installation. Many of those students said they soon realized they were in for a challenge and later said that Fort McCoy was an ideal place for the cold-weather training... MORE

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