Photo Essay: 2016 C-17 Globemaster III dirt airstrip ops at Fort McCoy

Photo By Scott Sturkol | A C-17 Globemaster III with the 437th Airlift Wing at Joint Base Charleston, S.C., takes off June 23, 2016, from Young Air Assault Strip on Fort McCoy’s South Post. The C-17 picked up service members with the Joint Communications Unit of Fort Bragg, N.C., who completed a 24-hour training event at Fort McCoy. (U.S. Army Photo by Scott T. Sturkol, Public Affairs Office, Fort McCoy, Wis.)  

FORT MCCOY, WI, UNITED STATES

09.16.2019

Story by Scott Sturkol                                                                                        

Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office           

A C-17 Globemaster III with the 437th Airlift Wing at Joint Base Charleston, S.C., landed and took off June 23, 2016, from Young Air Assault Strip on Fort McCoy’s South Post.

The C-17 picked up service members with the Joint Communications Unit of Fort Bragg, N.C., who completed a 24-hour training event at Fort McCoy.

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: 09.16.2019
• Date Posted: 09.16.2019 15:51
• Story ID: 341224
• Location: FORT MCCOY, WI, US