Photo Essay: Reenlistment Ceremony at Fort McCoy's Equipment Park

Photo By Scott Sturkol | Staff Sgt. Ryan Tatum with the 181st Multi-Functional Training Brigade completes a reenlistment in the Army on May 12, 2022, with Col. R.J. Hughes, 181st MFTB commander, at Equipment Park in the historic Commemorative Area at Fort McCoy, Wis. Tatum worked in the 181st's Public Affairs Office. The Equipment Park is an outdoor display of historic and present-day equipment representative of the types used on the installation. The design of the park allows for display of 70 pieces of equipment, ranging from helicopters and howitzers to trucks and trailers. The Commemorative Area also consists of five World War II-era buildings set aside to help tell Fort McCoy’s unique story. These facilities are representative of the types found in the cantonment area when it was constructed in 1942. (U.S. Army Photo by Scott T. Sturkol, Public Affairs Office, Fort McCoy, Wis.)  

FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, UNITED STATES

06.13.2022

Story by Scott Sturkol                                                                                                          

Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office           

Staff Sgt. Ryan Tatum with the 181st Multi-Functional Training Brigade completes a reenlistment in the Army on May 12, 2022, with Col. R.J. Hughes, 181st MFTB commander, at Equipment Park in the historic Commemorative Area at Fort McCoy, Wis.

Tatum worked in the 181st's Public Affairs Office.

The Equipment Park is an outdoor display of historic and present-day equipment representative of the types used on the installation. The design of the park allows for display of 70 pieces of equipment, ranging from helicopters and howitzers to trucks and trailers.

The Commemorative Area also consists of five World War II-era buildings set aside to help tell Fort McCoy’s unique story.

These facilities are representative of the types found in the cantonment area when it was constructed in 1942.

The 181st is a tenant organization at Fort McCoy.

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: 06.13.2022
• Date Posted: 06.13.2022 14:55
• Story ID: 422825
• Location: FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, US