Fort McCoy, United States of

America

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INTRODUCTION HISTORY CONSTRUCTION FACILITIES TRAINING POST

INTRODUCTION

Fort McCoy is an active army training post of the US Army. It is located between Sparta and Tomah, in Monroe County of Wisconsin, USA.

It is spread over 60,000 acres and is a total training centre for reserve and active military forces. It offers quality training facilities in more than 46,000 acres of land.

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HISTORY

The army post was built in 1909 on 14,000 acres of land. It was then known as Sparta Maneuver Tract.

It was renamed as Camp Bruce E. McCoy in 1910, after Robert Bruce McCoy, a prominent local resident.

The name was shortened to Camp McCoy in 1926. The camp underwent many changes between 1910 and 1919.

It was developed with the most reputed artillery site, storehouse, rifle ranges and many other office buildings.

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CONSTRUCTION

In the 1990s $140m was invested to construct a total force training centre at the post.

The training centre has the capacity to train more than 100,000 members every year.

The Child Development Centre at the post was constructed at a cost of $4.8m.

It provides full day child care services for children aged between six weeks and five years.

Construction of 55 family dwellings at South post was completed in a multiyear project, which was financed through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and Army Family Housing.

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FACILITIES

The garrison command at Fort McCoy includes the 11th Bt.

86th Training Division, 88th Regional Support Command HQ, 181st Infantry Brigade, Army Materiel Command, Corps of Engineers, Defence Commissary Agency, Mission and Installation Contracting Command, Wisconsin National Guard Maneuver Area Training Equipment Site, Naval Mobile Construction Battalion and NCO Academy.

Fort McCoy houses more than 1,082 military personnel, 1,732 civilians, 142,891 retirees and their families, along with 1,200 contractors.

It also has 1,432 buildings and facilities.

More than 100,000 military personnel are trained at the post each year.

Fort Mc Coy is facilitated with more than 29 live fire ranges.

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TRAINING POST The post has extensive urban training facilities, which include an urban

assault course, two live-fire shoot houses, a fully instrumented 20-building Mobile Urban Training Site and a 145-building container-constructed Mobile Urban Training Site.

It also includes fully functional home station training lanes (HSTL).

The two HSTLs, measuring eight kilometres long each, are facilitated with urban villages, overpasses, bridges, canals, divided roadways and traffic circles.

Fort McCoy is facilitated with a full-time medical clinic operated by a health-services contractor.

It serves the medical needs of active-duty military personnel at the post.

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REFERNCE

http://www.army-technology.com/projects/flyer-advanced-light-strike-

vehicle-alsv/

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