Photo Essay: CWOC class 22-06 at Fort McCoy graduates 15 Soldiers, Part II

Photo By Scott Sturkol | Students in the Fort McCoy Cold-Weather Operations Course (CWOC) class 22-06 participate in training March 25, 2022, on South Post at Fort McCoy, Wis. Hundreds of service members from multiple services trained in the course from 2021-2022. During CWOC, students complete snowshoe and skiing in training areas throughout the post. Overall, students completed nearly 40 kilometers of marches during training. They also learn how to pack and use ahkio sleds to carry and move gear, and they practice extensively in building the Arctic 10-person cold-weather tent as well as improvised shelters from what’s available. Course objectives also include focusing on terrain and weather analysis, risk management, developing winter fighting positions, camouflage and concealment in a cold-weather environment, cold-water immersion reaction and treatment, and injury prevention. (U.S. Army Photo by Scott T. Sturkol, Public Affairs Office, Fort McCoy, Wis.)  

FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, UNITED STATES

04.28.2022

Story by Scott Sturkol                                                                                                      

Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office           

Students in the Fort McCoy Cold-Weather Operations Course (CWOC) class 22-06 participate in training March 25, 2022, on South Post at Fort McCoy, Wis.

Hundreds of service members from multiple services trained in the course from 2021-2022. During CWOC, students complete snowshoe and skiing in training areas throughout the post.

Overall, students completed nearly 40 kilometers of marches during training.

They also learn how to pack and use ahkio sleds to carry and move gear, and they practice extensively in building the Arctic 10-person cold-weather tent as well as improvised shelters from what’s available.

Course objectives also include focusing on terrain and weather analysis, risk management, developing winter fighting positions, camouflage and concealment in a cold-weather environment, cold-water immersion reaction and treatment, and injury prevention.

The Fort McCoy CWOC training is modeled after the Cold-Weather Leader Course taught by the Army Northern Warfare Training Center at Black Rapids, Alaska. For each class, students start off with classroom training in building 224 and then move into various aspects of field training over 14 days.

The 2022-23 CWOC training season will tentatively begin in December.

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: 04.28.2022
• Date Posted: 04.28.2022 16:26
• Story ID: 419564
• Location: FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, US