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I'm Colonel Steve Messenger , garrison

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commander of Fort mccoy Wisconsin .

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When I was a kid , I love playing with

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trains . And when I had kids , my

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entire living room was full of Thomas ,

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the tank engine . Well , today we're

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here to check out our trains in the

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army reserves inventory with Terry

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Altman , our installation

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transportation officer . Come join us

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behind the triad .

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Terry , thanks for joining us and

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hosting us here on behind the triad .

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How long you been working here for ?

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I've been a for , for seven years ,

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seven years . You must like it if

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you've been here that long . What's

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your , what's your job here ? I'm the

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installation transportation officer

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responsible for all things ,

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transportation related regarding house

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security , passenger travel , rail

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operations , convoys , aircraft

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movements , anything transportation

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related . So trains is just one of your

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many specialties . Just one . How many

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trains do we have ? We have 220 ton

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diesel locomotive engines added Omar

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installation , uh the only ones in the

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army . And what do we do with these

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trains ? These trains support the MFG I

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mission here at Fort mccoy when

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inactive MFG I . So anytime the army

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has to deploy engineers transportation

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companies , large equipment . We're

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here to support that mission . Awesome .

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How often do we do this ? On average ?

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We do about two movements per year . So

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that's amazing . Any chance we can get

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in one of these suckers and ride it

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around . Sure . Hey , thanks Terry . I

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look forward to riding in one . Yes ,

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sir . Come on . This is Mr Peters

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Locomotive engineer Bill . It's great

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to meet you . How long have you been

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doing this for , uh , 41 years on the

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BNSF ? Oh , my goodness . What are we

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in right now ? This is an electric

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motive . It's called A , uh GP nine .

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So we take this their first venture .

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Let's go

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that nice . It was like the coolest

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thing ever .

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Oh , my goodness . Fort mccoy has so

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many cool things out here like this

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train and what Terry was talking about ?

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Land , sea air cyber . We talk about it

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all . We trained hundreds of thousands

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of soldiers a year . This place is

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incredible . If you have an interest in

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working on Fort mccoy , check out usa

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jobs . We'll see you next time behind

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the Triad .