Photo Story: Remembering Patriot Day 2024 at Fort McCoy

Photo By Scott Sturkol | Two police officers with the Fort McCoy Directorate of Emergency Services Police Department salute the U.S. flag Sept. 11, 2024, after setting it at half-staff in observance of Patriot Day 2024. The flag is set at half-staff to remember the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that America faced. On Sept. 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States, history shows. Two of the planes were flown into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon, and a fourth plane crashed in a field in Shanksville, Penn. Almost 3,000 people were killed during the 9-11 terrorist attacks. (U.S. Army Photo by Scott T. Sturkol, Public Affairs Office, Fort McCoy, Wis.)  

FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, UNITED STATES

09.13.2024

Story by Scott Sturkol                                                                                                  

Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office           

Two police officers with the Fort McCoy Directorate of Emergency Services Police Department salute the U.S. flag Sept. 11, 2024, after setting it at half-staff in observance of Patriot Day 2024.

The flag is set at half-staff to remember the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that America faced.

On Sept. 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States, history shows.

Two of the planes were flown into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon, and a fourth plane crashed in a field in Shanksville, Penn.

Almost 3,000 people were killed during the 9-11 terrorist attacks.

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,” on Flickr at https://www.flickr.com/photos/fortmccoywi, and on X (formerly Twitter) by searching “usagmccoy.”

Also try downloading the My Army Post app to your smartphone and set “Fort McCoy” or another installation as your preferred base. Fort McCoy is also part of Army’s Installation Management Command where “We Are The Army’s Home.”

• Date Taken: 09.13.2024
• Date Posted: 09.13.2024 16:39
• Story ID: 480863
• Location: FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, US