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Vietnam veteran reflects on war time service, more than 50 years later

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Culinary specialists with 238th Quartermaster (Field Feeding) Company led way during 2024 Philip A. Connelly Competition at Fort McCoy
June 4, 2024 — The Army Reserve’s 238th Quartermaster (Field Feeding) Company is a unit that thrives from the skills of the 92G culinary specialist Soldiers assigned to it, and those same Soldiers led a strong effort when the unit competed in the 2024 Philip A. Connelly Competition in the U.S. Army Reserve in mid-May at Fort McCoy... MORE

Army Reserve hosts 2024 Expert Soldier, Expert Infantry and Expert Field Medical Badge qualification
May 31, 2024 — The U.S. Army Reserve hosted its annual Expert Soldier Badge (ESB), Expert Infantry Badge (EIB), and Expert Field Medical Badge (EFMB) train-up and testing at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, from May 5 to 17, 2024. Active-duty and Army Reserve candidates pursued one of three badges, collectively referred to as E3B... MORE

Fort McCoy celebrates Army Reserve’s 116th birthday
May 3, 2024 — Fort McCoy celebrated the Army Reserve’s 116th birthday April 23 with a special celebration at McCoy’s Community Center in combination with the installation’s April Triad Nights event. ... MORE

Fort McCoy Garrison Soldiers hold simulations training effort at Engagement Skills Trainer
March 27, 2024 — Fort McCoy Garrison Soldiers completed training scenarios on the Engagement Skills Trainer (EST) II simulator March 15 at Fort McCoy... MORE

Soldiers gain unit armorer skills in unique course at Fort McCoy’s RTS-Maintenance
March 21, 2024 — Fifteen Soldiers who were students in the Regional Training Site (RTS)-Maintenance Unit Armorer Course in early March learned about how the different weapon systems work, about assembly and disassembly of those weapons, how to correct malfunctions, inspection, and more... MORE

Army Reserve Soldiers praise Fort McCoy Central Issue Facility exchange process; tests facility’s capabilities
March 21, 2024 — Numerous Soldiers with the Army Reserve’s 204th Army Band of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, were at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, on March 5 to exchange and turn in thousands of dollars worth of equipment to the Fort McCoy Central Issue Facility (CIF)... MORE

Fort McCoy’s brigade headquarters construction project reaches 96 percent complete as new year begins; work continues
February 2, 2024 — Mild winter conditions and more interior construction progress on the $11.96 million transient training brigade headquarters project at Fort McCoy has helped the project to reach 96 percent completion — up 2 percent from early December, according to a recent update from Ken Green with the Army Corps of Engineers Program Office at Fort McCoy. ... MORE

Fort McCoy NCO Academy students learn land navigation at post’s Virtual Battle Space simulations complex
February 2, 2024 — Students with the Fort McCoy Noncommissioned Officer Academy Basic Leader Course learned about land navigation Jan. 29 at the Fort McCoy Virtual Battle Space simulations facility... MORE

88th Readiness Division Soldiers embrace cold-weather training at Fort McCoy
January 23, 2024 — U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers from the 88th Readiness Division conducted cold weather snowshoe training during their battle assembly weekend at Fort McCoy, Wis., on Jan. 21, 2024. Despite the forecasted frigid temperatures in the negative double digits, members of HHD Company assembled at the installation's Whitetail Ridge Ski Area to train on the use and familiarization of snowshoes and proper wear of cold weather gear... MORE

Musician embraces opportunity with the U.S. Army Reserve Band
October 3, 2023 — Spc. Mindy Strahl’s military career began with an audition. Not the traditional statement someone in the service claims, but Strahl has a unique military skillset: she is an Army musician. More specifically, she is a trumpet player with the 338th Army Band out of Whitehall, Ohio... MORE

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