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U.S. Army Reserve officer and students donate school supplies
December 15, 2021 — Students from Ellsworth High School in Ellsworth, Wisconsin, and their social studies teacher, U.S. Army Reserve Soldier Lt. Col. Ryan Casper from the 7212th Medical Support Unit, Rochester, Minnesota, donated more than 1,050 backpacks full of school supplies to Fort McCoy, Wisconsin for Afghan evacuees here through Operation Allies Welcome on Dec. 13, 2021... MORE

Big investment, big payoff for Soldiers training in Warrior Exercise at Fort McCoy
September 22, 2021 — "Gas! Gas! Gas,” yell the Soldiers on a cool, cloudy morning in the woods of Wisconsin. Sgt. Christian Prado quickly looks to the left and sees Soldiers running out of their tents, which are still soggy from a night of heavy downpours and storms. While Soldiers scramble out of their tents, they grasp for their gas masks and dawn their chemical protection gear in a matter of seconds. In the distance he sees yellow smoke billowing from a green field. His voice is muffled by the gas mask covering his face, but Prado can still be heard yelling to his Soldiers their next objective... MORE

Guidry assumes 86th Training Division command
September 14, 2021 — Brig. Gen. Robert E. Guidry assumed command of the 86th Training Division in a ceremony at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, Sept. 11. Prior to accepting the 86th TD commanding general position, Guidry served in various positions including acting commanding general of the 75th Innovation Command; commander, Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Reserve Element; commander, 3rd Brigade, Gulf Division, 75th Training Command. Guidry also has five combat deployments as a Joint Special Operations Officer... MORE

Soldiers navigate with JLTV
September 7, 2021 — The U.S. Army has been rolling out its new tactical vehicle for some months now, and Soldiers are learning how to safely operate it. Much of that training is going on right here... MORE

Sgt. 1st Class Kristina Boettcher: "Army mom"
August 30, 2021 — “Caring.” “Dedicated.” “Motivating.” “My Army Mom.” These are just a few of the many words soldiers use to describe Sgt. 1st Class Kristina Boettcher, the noncommissioned officer in charge of the Effects and Enablers (E&E) for Global Medic... MORE

Global Medic tests new field hospital structure
August 30, 2021 — The first Global Medic exercise since conversion of the combat support hospital to a field hospital was conducted here the first three weeks of August 2021... MORE

Unit transformation requires Javelin Weapon System training
August 30, 2021 — More than a dozen Soldiers between the two Army Reserve Theater Engineer Commands trained on the Javelin Close Combat Weapon System over a three-day course in August... MORE

Chief of Staff of the Army makes ‘historic’ visit to Fort McCoy
August 26, 2021 — U.S. Army Soldiers were seeing stars, and lots of them, while conducting annual training at Fort McCoy when Gen. James C. McConville, the 40th Chief of Staff of the Army, visited the post for the first time Aug. 11... MORE

Bishop Spencer visits Fort McCoy, Wisconsin
August 25, 2021 — F. Richard Spencer, Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, celebrated Mass with U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers during Combat Support Training Exercise on Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, Aug. 14, 2021... MORE

Enabling the effects - MRTC Soldiers support Global Medic at Fort McCoy
August 23, 2021 — Providing timely life-saving measures can make all the difference in a real-life conflict, and the training to do so effectively takes a lot of help from behind the scenes. The effects and enablers (E&E) team from the U.S. Army Reserve’s Medical Readiness and Training Command (MRTC) is one of the prime motivators of what makes exercise Global Medic great... MORE

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