Photo Essay: Operation Cold Steel II Training Ops

Photo By Scott Sturkol | Soldiers participating in Operation Cold Steel II prepare for training in the exercise on April 18, 2018, at Fort McCoy, Wis. Operation Cold Steel II is the Army Reserve’s crew-served weapons qualification and validation exercise to ensure America’s Army Reserve units and Soldiers are trained and ready to deploy on short notice as part of Ready Force X. Cold Steel II's Task Force Triad, hosted by the 416th Theater Engineer Command, will conduct training at Fort McCoy through May 31. More than 3,000 Soldiers are attending this mounted crew-served weapons qualification training. (U.S. Army Photo by Scott T. Sturkol, Public Affairs Office, Fort McCoy, Wis.)  

FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, UNITED STATES

04.25.2018

Story by Scott Sturkol                                                                                                                  

Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office           

Soldiers participating in Operation Cold Steel II were busy all over the post on April 18, 2018, at Fort McCoy, Wis.

Operation Cold Steel II is the Army Reserve’s crew-served weapons qualification and validation exercise to ensure America’s Army Reserve units and Soldiers are trained and ready to deploy on short notice as part of Ready Force X.

Cold Steel II's Task Force Triad, hosted by the 416th Theater Engineer Command, will conduct training at Fort McCoy through May 31.

More than 3,000 Soldiers are attending this mounted crew-served weapons qualification training.

Learn more about Fort McCoy online at www.mccoy.army.mil, on Facebook by searching “ftmccoy,” and on Twitter by searching “usagmccoy.”

• Date Taken: 04.25.2018
• Date Posted: 04.25.2018 16:58
• Story ID: 274507
• Location: FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, US