Soldiers with the 11th Field Hospital, based out of Fort Hood, Texas, successfully concluded a Collective Training Exercise at Regional Training Site (RTS)-Medical at Fort McCoy, Wis., which ran from March 4 to 12, 2026.
This training was supported by the 1st Medical Brigade from Fort Hood, Fort McCoy’s RTS – Medical and the Fort McCoy Medical Simulation Training Center.
Organizers said the exercise was structured to ensure medical personnel train as they fight. Participants engaged in a range of activities, including refining staff processes and enhancing medical skills through state-of-the-art simulation and cadaver-based training.
These efforts, organizers said, are crucial for strengthening overall medical readiness and preparing our teams for future missions. They also stated the event highlights the power of partnership between active-duty units and Reserve training assets. Such joint efforts, they say, foster a shared learning environment, ensuring that warfighters will receive the highest level of care through a cohesive and expertly trained medical force.
Maj. Toritsetimiyin M. E-Nunu with the 11th Field Hospital described the training.
“We’re here to do a culminating training event where we’re able to enhance our medical training as well as integrate our standard protocols,” E-Nunu said in an early March interview at https://www.dvidshub.net/video/1000528/11th-field-hospital-sharpens-medical-readiness-fort-mccoy-wis, who also noted there were close to 100 Soldiers in the training event.
“Those who are participating are actually active-duty Soldiers as well as active-duty nurses, doctors, and medics, and we do have Soldiers from outlying units that are serving as our role players,” E-Nunu said.
The major said the training Soldiers completed class work as well as simulated training on the human as well as veterinary simulators. They also held a live exercise in a field hospital.
“We are hoping to integrate all our critical medical, life-saving tasks as well as hone our surgical skills and life-saving emergency skills,” she said. “All while doing it under simulated pressure.”
E-Nunu also said, “So, it’s very beneficial to have hands-on training because repetition … during a stressful environment … allows for familiarity and with familiarity it allows people to excel in their skills.”
E-Nunu also said the training was a great opportunity for Soldiers who are deploying.
She said it helps them “to be able to enhance their medical training and be able to get high-fidelity training on state-of-the-art medical simulators (at RTS-Medical).”
RTS-Medical at Fort McCoy is one of three regional training sites of its type available to units in the Army Reserve.
The organization has been a tenant activity and training partner at Fort McCoy since 1991.
Fort McCoy’s motto beginning in 2026 is “Training the Total Force and Shaping the Future since 1909.”
The installation’s mission: “Fort McCoy strengthens Total Force Readiness by serving as a training center, Mobilization Force Generation Installation, and Strategic Support Area enabling warfighter lethality to deploy, fight, and win our nation’s wars.”
And Fort McCoy’s vision is, “To be the premier training center supporting the most capable, combat-ready, and lethal armed forces.”
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.”