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2500th Digital Liaison Detachment participates in Avenger Triad 2024

The U.S. Army Reserve’s 2500th Digital Liaison Detachment, 7th Mission Support Command, participated in Exercise Avenger Triad...

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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

Schematics/electrical class taught at Fort McCoy Draw Yard
February 11, 2022 — For the first time, a schematics/electrical class was taught here Jan. 24-27, 2022. Gary Leamons, the logistic sustainment training coordinator/instructor for the Fort McCoy Draw Yard, taught the class three times before at the Fort Riley, Kansas, Equipment Concentration Site 33 and outlining Area Maintenance Support Activity (AMSA) shops. The class was among the LST curriculum... MORE

88th RD educator helps develop new Basic Skills Education Program course
February 4, 2022 — Last year more than 75 Soldiers in the 88th Readiness Division’s 19-state region geared up to raise their GT score by taking the AFCT, or Armed Forces Classification Test. Improving the General Technical number can lead the way to additional career opportunities... MORE

27 Soldiers, ROTC cadets, Airmen graduate Fort McCoy’s Cold-Weather Operations Course class 22-02
January 28, 2022 — Twenty-seven Soldiers, Airmen, and ROTC cadets completed training in 2022’s first session of the Fort McCoy Cold-Weather Operations Course (CWOC) after graduating from 14 days of training with class 22-02... MORE

Fast-forwarding event nudges priest to chaplaincy
January 28, 2022 — His friends and family members use words such as joyous, humorous, goofy, warm, spiritual and approachable to describe him. Add planner, organizer, administrator and dependable to that list. Those are the adjectives that Lt. Col. Paul Weberg hopes those who know him best use to define him. Weberg is the new 88th Readiness Division command chaplain... MORE

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