Photo Essay: Fort McCoy NCO Academy Soldiers practice drill skills during training

Photo By Scott Sturkol | Students with the Basic Leader Course at the Fort McCoy Noncommissioned Officer Academy practice drill skills near the campus of the academy Sept. 13, 2021, at Fort McCoy, Wis. The academy was activated at Fort McCoy in 1988. It was dedicated and named after Staff Sgt. Todd R. Cornell, an Army Reserve Soldier from Menomonee Falls, Wis., who was killed while serving in Iraq in 2004. The academy trains hundreds of Soldiers each year in the Basic Leader Course and the Battle Staff Noncommissioned Officer Course. (U.S. Army Photo by Scott T. Sturkol, Public Affairs Office, Fort McCoy, Wis.)  

FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, UNITED STATES

09.22.2021

Story by Scott Sturkol                                                                                          

Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office           

Students with the Basic Leader Course at the Fort McCoy Noncommissioned Officer Academy practice drill skills near the campus of the academy Sept. 13, 2021, at Fort McCoy, Wis.

The academy was activated at Fort McCoy in 1988. It was dedicated and named after Staff Sgt. Todd R. Cornell, an Army Reserve Soldier from Menomonee Falls, Wis., who was killed while serving in Iraq in 2004.

The academy trains hundreds of Soldiers each year in the Basic Leader Course and the Battle Staff Noncommissioned Officer Course.

Fort McCoy’s motto is to be the “Total Force Training Center.” 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 nearly every 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.” Also try downloading the Digital Garrison app to your smartphone and set “Fort McCoy” or another installation as your preferred base.

• Date Taken: 09.22.2021
• Date Posted: 09.22.2021 17:10
• Story ID: 405814
• Location: FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, US