Photo Essay: Face painting during 2019 Fort McCoy Armed Forces Day Open House

Photo By Scott Sturkol | A volunteer paints a camouflage pattern on a child’s face May 18, 2019, during the 2019 Armed Forces Day Open House at Fort McCoy, Wis. Thousands of people attended the event that included bus tours of the installation, camouflage face painting, a display of native animals by the Fort McCoy Directorate of Public Works Environmental Division Natural Resources Branch, military vehicles and equipment, and unit and tenant organization displays. The post holds the open house every year on Armed Forces Day – the third Saturday of May. (U.S. Army Photo by Scott T. Sturkol, Public Affairs Office, Fort McCoy, Wis.)  

FORT MCCOY, WI, UNITED STATES

06.05.2019

Story by Scott Sturkol                                                                                          

Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office           

Volunteers painted a camouflage pattern on a children's faces May 18, 2019, during the 2019 Armed Forces Day Open House at Fort McCoy, Wis.

Thousands of people attended the event that included bus tours of the installation, camouflage face painting, a display of native animals by the Fort McCoy Directorate of Public Works Environmental Division Natural Resources Branch, military vehicles and equipment, and unit and tenant organization displays.

The post holds the open house every year on Armed Forces Day – the third Saturday of May.

Located in the heart of the upper Midwest, Fort McCoy is the only U.S. Army installation in Wisconsin.

The installation has provided support and facilities for the field and classroom training of more than 100,000 military personnel from all services each year since 1984.

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

• Date Taken: 06.05.2019
• Date Posted: 06.05.2019 16:49
• Story ID: 325593
• Location: FORT MCCOY, WI, US