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Soldiers from across the Army completed more than 240 hours of training to become advanced leaders in the service’s “91-Lima” career field during training at the Regional Training Site (RTS)-Maintenance facility at Fort McCoy.
The Soldiers were students in RTS-Maintenance’s Construction Equipment Repairer Advanced Leadership Course (ALC) in January and February.
The class is taught in two phases of instruction, according to the RTS-Maintenance staff. The first block includes 141 hours of training, and the second block is 103 hours.
The course introduces students to subjects such as shop safety and management of operational, maintenance, and historical records and forms on construction-related equipment, the course description states. The students also learn about the Army Oil Analysis Program, tool-control procedures, and prescribed load-list operations.
The military occupational specialty-specific training they receive in the course includes troubleshooting electrical, diesel engine, hydraulic, brake, and power-train systems. The students also receive 40 hours of Global Combat Support System (GCSS)-Army training with actual live system-usage dispatching and ordering parts.
Staff Sgt. Aaron Grondin with the Maine Army National Guard, Sgt. Zach Kunz with the Montana National Guard, and Sgt. Nathan Reminder with the Michigan Army National Guard were among the students working on a project for the course on Feb. 2.
Kunz said he appreciated everything in the course. “This has been a great experience,” he said.
RTS-Maintenance at Fort McCoy trains Soldiers in both active- and reserve-component. Staff Sgt. Alicia Curtis serves as the lead RTS-Maintenance instructor.
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 the Defense Visual Information Distribution System at https://www.dvidshub.net/fmpao, 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: | 02.18.2022 |
| Date Posted: | 02.18.2022 17:14 |
| Story ID: | 414960 |
| Location: | FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, US |
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