Photo Essay: Getting muddy for training

Photo By Scott Sturkol | Students in the Regional Training Site (RTS)-Maintenance Tracked Vehicle Recovery Course prepare to hook an M88A1 Medium-Tracked Recovery Vehicle to another M88A1 during course operations July 19, 2018, at a training area on North Post at Fort McCoy, Wis. The course was the last of three sessions held during fiscal year 2018. The course provides the H8 additional skill identifier for 91-series Soldiers and consists of 134 hours of classroom, field, and hands-on training. The course focuses on determining recovery methods; operating metal-cutting equipment; tracked vehicle preventive maintenance checks and services and basic issue items; driving tracked recovery vehicles and operating the various winches on those vehicles; booms, hoists, and auxiliary equipment; recovering mired and overturned tracked vehicles; towing disabled tracked vehicles; and self-recovery of tracked vehicles. Each session of the course includes approximately 12 students. RTS-Maintenance at Fort McCoy trains Soldiers from both active- and reserve-component forces. (U.S. Army Photo by Scott T. Sturkol, Public Affairs Office, Fort McCoy, Wis.)  

FORT M, WI, UNITED STATES

07.31.2018

Story by Scott Sturkol                                                                                         

Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office           

Students in the Regional Training Site (RTS)-Maintenance Tracked Vehicle Recovery Course waded through hip-deep mud in a mire pit to hook an M88A1 Medium-Tracked Recovery Vehicle to another M88A1 during course training operations July 19, 2018, at a training area on North Post at Fort McCoy, Wis.

The training scenario to remove a tracked vehicle stuck in the mud was just one of several scenarios that students had to wade through.

The course provides the H8 additional skill identifier for 91-series Soldiers and consists of 134 hours of classroom, field, and hands-on training.

The course focuses on determining recovery methods; operating metal-cutting equipment; tracked vehicle preventive maintenance checks and services and basic issue items; driving tracked recovery vehicles and operating the various winches on those vehicles; booms, hoists, and auxiliary equipment; recovering mired and overturned tracked vehicles; towing disabled tracked vehicles; and self-recovery of tracked vehicles.

Each session of the course includes approximately 12 students. RTS-Maintenance at Fort McCoy trains Soldiers from both active- and reserve-component forces.

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

• Date Taken: 07.31.2018
• Date Posted: 07.31.2018 14:56
• Story ID: 286527
• Location: FORT M, WI, US