Photo Essay: Training look-back -- 661st Engineer Company training at Fort McCoy in 2016

Photo By Scott Sturkol | Soldiers with the 661st Engineer Company of the Illinois National Guard complete weapons qualification with the M249 rifle at Range 2 on Fort McCoy’s North Post on May 12, 2016. Range 2 is one of 31 live-fire ranges available at Fort McCoy to support training at the installation. (U.S. Army Photo by Scott T. Sturkol, Public Affairs Office, Fort McCoy, Wis.)  

FORT MCCOY, WI, UNITED STATES

10.30.2019

Story by Scott Sturkol                                                                                         

Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office           

Soldiers with the 661st Engineer Company of the Illinois National Guard completed weapons qualification with the M249 rifle at Range 2 on Fort McCoy’s North Post on May 12, 2016.

Range 2 is one of 31 live-fire ranges available at Fort McCoy to support training at the installation.

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: 10.30.2019
• Date Posted: 10.30.2019 11:00
• Story ID: 349879
• Location: FORT MCCOY, WI, US