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Soldiers pose for a photo at a camp at present day

Soldiers pose for a photo at a camp at present day

Soldiers pose for a photo at a camp at present day Fort McCoy, Wis., in 1910. Prior to the U.S. involvement in World War I in 1917-18, Fort McCoy was a fledgling installation that was established in 1909. (U.S.... More

Remembering World War I: Fort McCoy's founder sends battlefield letter home

Remembering World War I: Fort McCoy's founder sends battlefield letter...

This is a photo of Army Col. Robert Bruce McCoy from 1918 during World War I. During the war, McCoy served in France. McCoy is the founder of Fort McCoy, Wis. (U.S. Army Historical Photograph)

This photo of a photo, shown Oct. 26, 2018, at the

This photo of a photo, shown Oct. 26, 2018, at the

This photo of a photo, shown Oct. 26, 2018, at the Fort McCoy, Wis., History Center, is of Col. Robert B. McCoy, Fort McCoy's founder, as he looked during World War I in 1918. (U.S. Army Photo by Scott T. Sturk... More

1920s training - A group of men riding on the backs of horses

1920s training - A group of men riding on the backs of horses

A group of Soldiers trains at Camp Robinson, a precursor of Fort McCoy, in the 1920s. (U.S. Army file photo)

Special World War II vet visited McCoy in 2016, recalled friends from famed 100th

Special World War II vet visited McCoy in 2016, recalled friends from ...

Thelma and Clarence Suzuki tour the Fort McCoy, Wis., Commemorative Area on Oct. 28, 2016. Clarence is a former Army sergeant and World War II veteran who served with the Military Intelligence Service in Japan ... More

Fort McCoy Archaeologist Ryan Howell with the Directorate

Fort McCoy Archaeologist Ryan Howell with the Directorate

Fort McCoy Archaeologist Ryan Howell with the Directorate of Public Works Environmental Division Natural Resources Branch looks over old installation real property records Jan. 22, 2021, in a conference room at... More

A conceptual sketch of a Japanese training village

A conceptual sketch of a Japanese training village

A conceptual sketch of a Japanese training village and buildings are shown on display in the Fort McCoy, Wis., History Center, building 902, on May 27, 2020. The village was built in the 1940s to help train U.S... More

Japanese POWs board train. Public domain, Post-war Japan.

Japanese POWs board train. Public domain, Post-war Japan.

Three hundred nineteen Japanese prisoners of war, carrying their belongings, board trains at then-Camp McCoy for California, where they will aid in harvest in the 1940s. According to the U.S. War Department in... More

Visitors look at displays June 7, 2019, in the Fort

Visitors look at displays June 7, 2019, in the Fort

Visitors look at displays June 7, 2019, in the Fort McCoy (Wis.) History Center during one of the public open days of the post's Commemorative Area. Public open days are coordinated by the Fort McCoy Public Aff... More

The sun sets Dec. 10, 2020, behind buildings on the

The sun sets Dec. 10, 2020, behind buildings on the

The sun sets Dec. 10, 2020, behind buildings on the cantonment area at Fort McCoy, Wis. The cantonment area has hundreds of buildings and was built at the installation in the 1940s during World War II. (U.S. Ar... More

1940s construction of Fort McCoy cantonment area

1940s construction of Fort McCoy cantonment area

Workers construct the frame of a building in the cantonment area in September 1942 at then-Camp McCoy, Wis., now Fort McCoy. The cantonment area was constructed in the 1940s to handle an influx of Soldiers and ... More

Sketch of Camp McCoy POW camp - A black and white drawing of a town

Sketch of Camp McCoy POW camp - A black and white drawing of a town

A scene from a sketchbook of a prisoner of war (POW) at Camp McCoy from the 1940s is shown. The scene shows the POW compound that was located on South Post and housed POWs from World War II.

Building 905 on the cantonment area is shown Nov. 30,

Building 905 on the cantonment area is shown Nov. 30,

Building 905 on the cantonment area is shown Nov. 30, 2020, at Fort McCoy. This building is a varied history like many built at Fort McCoy in the 1940s. The building has been am officer's club, a Reserve center... More

Tourist Attraction - Old Fort McCoy Chapel

Tourist Attraction - Old Fort McCoy Chapel

An old chapel building is shown on the cantonment area on Fort McCoy, Wis., on April 3, 2018, during a spring snow storm. Older chapels like this at the installation were built during the massive cantonment are... More

Fort McCoy ArtiFACT: Aspirin tin

Fort McCoy ArtiFACT: Aspirin tin

This aspirin tin from somewhere between the 1920s to 1940s was found during a past archaeological dig on post near the Sparta-Fort McCoy Airport. (Photo by Colorado State University’s Center for Environmental M... More

The History Center in the Commemorative Area is shown

The History Center in the Commemorative Area is shown

The History Center in the Commemorative Area is shown Sept. 20, 2019, at Fort McCoy, Wis. The 900 block of Fort McCoy and the 11-acre area surrounding it are at the hub of the fort's history-preservation effort... More

A visitor looks inside one of several historical buildings

A visitor looks inside one of several historical buildings

A visitor looks inside one of several historical buildings Sept. 20, 2018, at the historic Commemorative Area at Fort McCoy, Wis. The 900 block of the installation and the 11-acre area surrounding it are at the... More

This month in Fort McCoy history: August 2019

This month in Fort McCoy history: August 2019

A band concert by 330th Army Band, led by Master Sgt. Earnest Villas, director, is held at then-Camp McCoy, Wis., summer camp Aug. 24, 1949. (U.S. Army historical photo)

Members of the Camp McCoy, Wis., baseball team pose

Members of the Camp McCoy, Wis., baseball team pose

Members of the Camp McCoy, Wis., baseball team pose for a photo with a trophy in the 1950s at Camp McCoy (now Fort McCoy). Baseball was a popular pastime at the installation in the 1940s and 1950s. (U.S. Army file photo)

‘Garbage’ considered a treasure trove in Fort McCoy archaeological work

‘Garbage’ considered a treasure trove in Fort McCoy archaeological wor...

Pictured are beer cans found at Fort McCoy, Wis., during an archaeological dig in July 2015. They were found in a feature that dated to the 1960s. (Photo by Colorado State University Center for Environmental Ma... More

Soldiers drive a military truck out of the storage

Soldiers drive a military truck out of the storage

Soldiers drive a military truck out of the storage area for the Maneuver Area Training Equipment Site (MATES) on March 14, 2018, at Fort McCoy, Wis. The MATES facility belongs to Wisconsin Army National Guard a... More

Pafoua Her of Kaukauna, Wis., gives her presentation

Pafoua Her of Kaukauna, Wis., gives her presentation

Pafoua Her of Kaukauna, Wis., gives her presentation during the Fort McCoy, Wis., observance of Asian-American and Pacific Islander Month at McCoy’s Community Center on May 19, 2016. Her discussed her Hmong her... More

Mock mass casualty training in 1970 at Camp McCoy

Mock mass casualty training in 1970 at Camp McCoy

Members of the 830th Station Hospital, 88th Army Reserve Command, of Des Moines, Iowa, load a mock casualty into a helicopter during mock mass casualty training in 1970 at then-Camp McCoy. (U.S. Army file photo)

This Month in Fort McCoy History: July 2019

This Month in Fort McCoy History: July 2019

Building 1754, a former chapel, is shown set up for chaplain training in July 1969 at then-Camp McCoy, Wis. The post was renamed to Fort McCoy in the 1970s and chaplain training still takes place on post to the... More

Field bakery in 1974 at Camp McCoy

Field bakery in 1974 at Camp McCoy

Members of the bakery section of the 312th General Supply Company, Des Moines and Ames, Iowa, Iowa Army National Guard, prepare bread at a field training site July 2, 1974. The 312th was under the 103rd Support... More

September: This Month in History at Fort McCoy

September: This Month in History at Fort McCoy

Staff Sgt. James Schump, a tank commander from Fort Carson, Colo., puts an M-60 tank deep in water during a training exercise for the 2nd Brigade, 84th Division in the summer of 1978. During Annual Training 197... More

Cuban refugees from Mariel Boatlift in 1980

Cuban refugees from Mariel Boatlift in 1980

Cuban refugees step off a bus and into a holding area at Fort McCoy in 1980 after a ride from the La Crosse Municipal Airport. Fort McCoy served as a processing center for Cuban refugees from the Mariel Boatlif... More

Items with the “Lost Voices of Mariel” exhibit are

Items with the “Lost Voices of Mariel” exhibit are

Items with the “Lost Voices of Mariel” exhibit are shown Feb. 13, 2020, at the Monroe County Local History Room in Sparta, Wis. The exhibit recalls the 1980 Cuban Refugee Program at Fort McCoy, Wis. In 1980, th... More

1984 training at Fort McCoy - A couple of men sitting in the back of a jeep

1984 training at Fort McCoy - A couple of men sitting in the back of a...

Soldiers consult with one another during training in 1984 at a training range at Fort McCoy. (U.S. Army file photo)

Februrary 1986 winter training

Februrary 1986 winter training

Service members at Fort McCoy, Wis., for training complete winter training at a range area Feb. 11, 1986. Located in the heart of the upper Midwest, Fort McCoy is the only U.S. Army installation in Wisconsin. T... More

Service members participate in winter training at Fort

Service members participate in winter training at Fort

Service members participate in winter training at Fort McCoy in 1986 in this historical photo. Winter training returned to Fort McCoy on a regular basis in January 2017 with the start of the Cold-Weather Operat... More

Marines from Camp Le Jeune, N.C., participate in

Marines from Camp Le Jeune, N.C., participate in

Marines from Camp Le Jeune, N.C., participate in cold-weather training at Fort McCoy on Jan. 22, 1988. Hundreds of Marines participated in the training. (U.S. Army Photo by Mike Orrico)

Soldiers cross a river during training in 1989 at Fort

Soldiers cross a river during training in 1989 at Fort

Soldiers cross a river during training in 1989 at Fort McCoy.

Soldiers deploying to the Gulf War make their way to

Soldiers deploying to the Gulf War make their way to

Soldiers deploying to the Gulf War make their way to a plane in 1990 at Volk Field, Wis. (U.S. Army file photo)

M-935 5-ton expandable vans are shown parked in a staging

M-935 5-ton expandable vans are shown parked in a staging

M-935 5-ton expandable vans are shown parked in a staging area Jan. 29, 1991, for a XVIII Airborne Corps Main Command Post convoy movement from Dhahran, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia, to Rafha, Northern Provin... More

This is a left front quarter view of an M-2 Bradley

This is a left front quarter view of an M-2 Bradley

This is a left front quarter view of an M-2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle shown on Nov. 20, 1990, at the Theater Ammunition Supply Point outside Dhahran, Saudi Arabia in the Eastern Province while the Sold... More

Bridging operation at Fort McCoy (June 1998)

Bridging operation at Fort McCoy (June 1998)

Soldiers with the 652nd Engineer Company participate in bridging operations at Alderwood Lake on North Post in June 1998 at Fort McCoy, Wis. This photo was printed in the June 26, 1998, edition of the Fort McCo... More

Soldiers with the 355th Chemical Smoke Generator Company

Soldiers with the 355th Chemical Smoke Generator Company

Soldiers with the 355th Chemical Smoke Generator Company complete training with generators on Feb. 17, 1952, at then-Camp McCoy, Wis. (Photo by Maurice A. Van Coillie, St. Clair Shores, Mich.)

Soldiers operate a Humvee on Highway 21 on their way

Soldiers operate a Humvee on Highway 21 on their way

Soldiers operate a Humvee on Highway 21 on their way to Fort McCoy, Wis., for training April 5, 2018. During April 2018, thousands of service members trained at the installation for institutional training, exer... More

ROTC cadets at Camp McCoy

ROTC cadets at Camp McCoy

Four ROTC cadets from Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., are engaged in assembling and disassembling the Browning Automatic Rifle at Camp McCoy, Wis. They are being instructed by Sgt. 1st Class Walter Winborn of... More

Fort McCoy Fire Department supports National Fire Prevention Week event

Fort McCoy Fire Department supports National Fire Prevention Week even...

Fort McCoy Fire Inspector Curt Ladwig with the Directorate of Emergency Services Fire Department talks with students about fire prevention Oct. 10, 2019, at Miller Elementary School in Tomah, Wis. The visit by ... More

A scene at Improved Tactical Training Base Freedom

A scene at Improved Tactical Training Base Freedom

A scene at Improved Tactical Training Base Freedom is shown Aug. 24, 2018, at Fort McCoy, Wis. Training areas like this are set up across Fort McCoy for transient training operations. In fiscal year 2017, a rec... More

From an overlook on North Post at Fort McCoy, Wis.,

From an overlook on North Post at Fort McCoy, Wis.,

From an overlook on North Post at Fort McCoy, Wis., summer scenes of the impact area and training areas are shown June 18, 2020, on post. Training areas like these are set up across Fort McCoy for transient tra... More

Infiltration Course at Camp McCoy in 1950

Infiltration Course at Camp McCoy in 1950

During the Infiltration Course, exploding mines and overhead machine-gun fire make combat training realistic for the men of the 887th Field Artillery Battalion. The soldiers crawl for 15 to 20 minutes through ... More

This concrete storehouse, shown Feb. 25, 2020, is the

This concrete storehouse, shown Feb. 25, 2020, is the

This concrete storehouse, shown Feb. 25, 2020, is the oldest standing building at Fort McCoy, Wis. The building was built in 1911 and its location was once next to the southern spur of the joint Chicago and nor... More

Holocaust survivor Nathan Taffel shares his story during

Holocaust survivor Nathan Taffel shares his story during

Holocaust survivor Nathan Taffel shares his story during the Fort McCoy observance of the Holocaust Days of Remembrance on April 30, 2019, in building 905 at Fort McCoy, Wis. Taffel was born Naftali Taffel to a... More

An exterior view of an area of the Fort McCoy Combined

An exterior view of an area of the Fort McCoy Combined

An exterior view of an area of the Fort McCoy Combined Arms Collective Training Facility (CACTF) complex is shown Aug. 30, 2018, at Fort McCoy, Wis. The CACTF provides a wide variety of training environments. T... More

Amy Van Deuren, Ph.D., superintendent of the Sparta

Amy Van Deuren, Ph.D., superintendent of the Sparta

Amy Van Deuren, Ph.D., superintendent of the Sparta (Wis.) Area School District, gives her presentation Aug. 15, 2019, during the Fort McCoy (Wis.) observance of Women’s Equality Day in McCoy's Community Center... More

Visitors to the installation for a tour look over displays

Visitors to the installation for a tour look over displays

Visitors to the installation for a tour look over displays in the Fort McCoy History Center on Groundhog Day, Feb. 2, 2018. The tour for more than 100 people from Sun Prairie, Wis., was coordinated by the Fort ... More

Range 18 is shown Nov. 26, 2019, on North Post at Fort

Range 18 is shown Nov. 26, 2019, on North Post at Fort

Range 18 is shown Nov. 26, 2019, on North Post at Fort McCoy, Wis. Training areas like these are set up across Fort McCoy for transient training operations. Fort McCoy has supported America’s armed forces since... More

Officers Rich Hohensee and Matthew Brigson with the

Officers Rich Hohensee and Matthew Brigson with the

Officers Rich Hohensee and Matthew Brigson with the Fort McCoy (Wis.) Police Department read a Dr. Seuss book to children at the Child Development Center (CDC) on March 4, 2015. The storytime is part of an effo... More

1951 riot control squad

1951 riot control squad

The riot control squad, all members of the 115th Engineer Construction Battalion, advances on an unruly mob in a wedge formation designed to scatter the group. The full dress rehearsal was staged after several... More

This concrete storehouse, shown on Oct. 30, 2017, is

This concrete storehouse, shown on Oct. 30, 2017, is

This concrete storehouse, shown on Oct. 30, 2017, is the oldest standing building at Fort McCoy, Wis. The building was built in 1911 and its location was once next to the southern spur of the joint Chicago and ... More

A scene at a training area on South Post is shown Sept.

A scene at a training area on South Post is shown Sept.

A scene at a training area on South Post is shown Sept. 26, 2018, at Fort McCoy, Wis. Training areas like this are set up across Fort McCoy for transient training operations. In fiscal year 2017, a record 155,9... More

Service members at Fort McCoy, Wis., for training visit

Service members at Fort McCoy, Wis., for training visit

Service members at Fort McCoy, Wis., for training visit a mobile USO Wisconsin station/truck Feb. 14, 2018, on South Post at the installation. USO Wisconsin Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. It curren... More

Soldiers with the 2nd Battalion, 106th Cavalry (2nd,

Soldiers with the 2nd Battalion, 106th Cavalry (2nd,

Soldiers with the 2nd Battalion, 106th Cavalry (2nd, 106th) of the Illinois National Guard's 33rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team complete training with Humvee-mounted M2 .50-caliber machine guns Oct. 18, 2018, on... More

Fort McCoy ArtiFACT: Head gasket

Fort McCoy ArtiFACT: Head gasket

A copper and asbestos head gasket, most likely used in the 1910s, is shown here. The gasket was found eroding out of a hillside at a Fort McCoy historic site that was occupied from circa 1856 to 1912. (Photo by... More

Display cards are set up Aug. 15, 2019, for the Fort

Display cards are set up Aug. 15, 2019, for the Fort

Display cards are set up Aug. 15, 2019, for the Fort McCoy (Wis.) observance of Women’s Equality Day in McCoy's Community Center. Dozens of people attended the event. Women’s Equality Day is observed annually o... More

Thanksgiving Dinner 1937 at Camp McCoy

Thanksgiving Dinner 1937 at Camp McCoy

Soldiers stop for a photo at then-Camp McCoy prior to a Thanksgiving dinner at the installation in November 1937. (U.S. Army photo)

Officer Randy Crook, from the Directorate of Emergency

Officer Randy Crook, from the Directorate of Emergency

Officer Randy Crook, from the Directorate of Emergency Services Law Enforcement Division, reads a Doctor Seuss book to children at the Child Development Center (CDC) on March 4, 2014, at Fort McCoy, Wis. The bo... More

Construction workers pour cement in 1942 at Camp McCoy,

Construction workers pour cement in 1942 at Camp McCoy,

Construction workers pour cement in 1942 at Camp McCoy, Wis. (U.S. Army file photo)

World War II veteran Donald Whitaker, who served in

World War II veteran Donald Whitaker, who served in

World War II veteran Donald Whitaker, who served in the Army from 1943 to 1946, holds a display case July 16, 2020, with the medals he earned during the war while visiting the Commemorative Area at Fort McCoy, ... More

Soldiers operate a military truck on Highway 21 on

Soldiers operate a military truck on Highway 21 on

Soldiers operate a military truck on Highway 21 on their way to Fort McCoy, Wis., for training April 12, 2018. During April 2018, thousands of service members trained at the installation for institutional train... More

This concrete storehouse, shown on Feb. 6, 2019, is

This concrete storehouse, shown on Feb. 6, 2019, is

This concrete storehouse, shown on Feb. 6, 2019, is the oldest standing building at Fort McCoy, Wis. The building was built in 1911 and its location was once next to the southern spur of the joint Chicago and n... More

This concrete storehouse, shown Jan. 15, 2021, is the

This concrete storehouse, shown Jan. 15, 2021, is the

This concrete storehouse, shown Jan. 15, 2021, is the oldest standing building at Fort McCoy, Wis. The building was built in 1911 and its location was once next to the southern spur of the joint Chicago and nor... More

This concrete storehouse, shown March 20, 2020, is

This concrete storehouse, shown March 20, 2020, is

This concrete storehouse, shown March 20, 2020, is the oldest standing building at Fort McCoy, Wis. The building was built in 1911 and its location was once next to the southern spur of the joint Chicago and no... More

Soldiers who are students in courses with the Staff

Soldiers who are students in courses with the Staff

Soldiers who are students in courses with the Staff Sgt. Todd R. Cornell Noncommissioned Officer Academy march near the academy complex April 23, 2018, as part of the academy’s observance of the Army Reserve bi... More

Fort McCoy ArtiFACT: Toy gun - A piece of metal sitting on top of a piece of paper

Fort McCoy ArtiFACT: Toy gun - A piece of metal sitting on top of a pi...

This toy gun is a Stevens cast-iron cap gun manufactured by J & E Stevens Company of Cromwell, Conn., in 1890 and was found on an archaeological dig at Fort McCoy. The company existed between 1843 and 1950. (Ph... More

Camp McCoy: Telephone operators in 1969

Camp McCoy: Telephone operators in 1969

Telephone operators are shown at their positions May 16, 1969, on the new six-position telephone board installed at then-Camp McCoy, Wis. Pictured (left to right) are: Dotti Kling, Alyce Wahl, Lorayne Denter, D... More

A gate section built by the Works Progress Administration

A gate section built by the Works Progress Administration

A gate section built by the Works Progress Administration in 1941 is shown on South Post near the housing area March 26, 2020, at Fort McCoy, Wis. From 1935-1941, the Works Progress Administration made signific... More

Veterans Memorial Plaza is shown Nov. 11, 2020, with

Veterans Memorial Plaza is shown Nov. 11, 2020, with

Veterans Memorial Plaza is shown Nov. 11, 2020, with fall colors starting at the Commemorative Area at Fort McCoy, Wis. The 900 block of the installation, the Commemorative Area, and the 11-acre area surroundin... More

A gate section built by the Works Progress Administration

A gate section built by the Works Progress Administration

A gate section built by the Works Progress Administration in 1941 is shown on South Post near the housing area Jan. 15, 2021, at Fort McCoy, Wis. From 1935-1941, the Works Progress Administration made significa... More

Fort McCoy ArtiFACT: Sauce bottle

Fort McCoy ArtiFACT: Sauce bottle

An A1 sauce bottle found in a past archaeological dig at Fort McCoy, Wis., is shown Oct. 27, 2015. This particular bottle was found in 2014 and was made between 1916 and 1929. (Photo by Colorado State Universit... More

The U.S. flag is shown on the garrison flagpole on

The U.S. flag is shown on the garrison flagpole on

The U.S. flag is shown on the garrison flagpole on Veterans Day on Nov. 11, 2020, as the sun rises at Fort McCoy, Wis. In 1918, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, an armistice was declared betw... More

Cold storage in December 1943 - A man standing in front of a bunch of meat hanging from a line

Cold storage in December 1943 - A man standing in front of a bunch of ...

A Soldier inspects meat at a cold storage area in December 1943 at then-Camp McCoy. (U.S. Army file photo)

A gate section built by the Works Progress Administration

A gate section built by the Works Progress Administration

A gate section built by the Works Progress Administration in 1941 is shown on South Post near Highway 16 on March 23, 2018, at Fort McCoy, Wis. From 1935-1941, the Works Progress Administration made significant... More

World War II-era letter donated to Fort McCoy History Center

World War II-era letter donated to Fort McCoy History Center

Lois (Schwanz) Munns of Rock Springs, Wis., presents Public Affairs Specialist Theresa Fitzgerald with a letter June 13, 2017, she received in 1944 from a Soldier who was stationed at then-Camp McCoy for donati... More

Camp McCoy May Day dance (1965)

Camp McCoy May Day dance (1965)

Soldiers stationed at Camp McCoy, Wis., attend a May Day Rock and Roll dance May 1, 1965, at Service Club No. 1 on post. The guests were female students attending Viterbo College in La Crosse, Wis. (U.S. Army ... More

Troops at Fort McCoy, Wis., for training operate a

Troops at Fort McCoy, Wis., for training operate a

Troops at Fort McCoy, Wis., for training operate a military vehicle on the cantonment area Oct. 18, 2018. During October, thousands of troops trained at the installation. Fort McCoy has supported America's arme... More

Archive photo: Post Engineers Office

Archive photo: Post Engineers Office

Cpl. Reyger of Glendale, Calif., works at the drafting table Jan. 24, 1951, in the Post Engineers Office at Camp McCoy, Wis.

Soldiers with the 2nd Battalion, 106th Cavalry (2nd,

Soldiers with the 2nd Battalion, 106th Cavalry (2nd,

Soldiers with the 2nd Battalion, 106th Cavalry (2nd, 106th) of the Illinois National Guard's 33rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team complete training with Humvee-mounted M2 .50-caliber machine guns Oct. 18, 2018, on... More

A gate section built by the Works Progress Administration

A gate section built by the Works Progress Administration

A gate section built by the Works Progress Administration in 1941 is shown on South Post near the housing area July 12, 2018, at Fort McCoy, Wis. From 1935-1941, the Works Progress Administration made significa... More

The Fort McCoy Garrison Headquarters and U.S. flag

The Fort McCoy Garrison Headquarters and U.S. flag

The Fort McCoy Garrison Headquarters and U.S. flag are shown July 6, 2017, at Fort McCoy, Wis. Fort McCoy has supported America’s armed forces since 1909. Today, Fort McCoy has become the Army’s premier Total F... More

Locomotive in December 1952 - A black and white photo of a train in front of a building

Locomotive in December 1952 - A black and white photo of a train in fr...

A locomotive and its round house are shown in December 1952 at then-Camp McCoy. (U.S. Army file photo)

An exterior view of one of the areas of the Fort McCoy

An exterior view of one of the areas of the Fort McCoy

An exterior view of one of the areas of the Fort McCoy Combined Arms Collective Training Facility (CACTF) complex is shown Sept. 27, 2019, at Fort McCoy, Wis. The CACTF provides a wide variety of training envir... More

Soldiers with the 181st Multi-Functional Training Brigade

Soldiers with the 181st Multi-Functional Training Brigade

Soldiers with the 181st Multi-Functional Training Brigade (MFTB), also called the “Eagle Brigade” complete weapons training at Range 34 on Sept. 20, 2017, on North Post at Fort McCoy, Wis. The Soldiers were com... More

Soldiers with the 5th Battalion, 108th Regiment (Civil

Soldiers with the 5th Battalion, 108th Regiment (Civil

Soldiers with the 5th Battalion, 108th Regiment (Civil Affairs) complete training March 19, 2019, at the Combined Arms Collective Training Facility (CACTF) at Fort McCoy, Wis. The CACTF provides a wide variety ... More

Employees with the Camp McCoy (Wis.) Quartermaster

Employees with the Camp McCoy (Wis.) Quartermaster

Employees with the Camp McCoy (Wis.) Quartermaster Laundry work in the facility in this April 1943 photo. The facility was judged the most efficient of any Army post laundry in the country during February 1943 ... More

October: This Month in History at Fort McCoy

October: This Month in History at Fort McCoy

Soldiers participate in the first class of the C.W. Radio School on Oct. 24, 1950, at then-Camp McCoy. Standing is Pfc. D.H. Oatlund, who served as the instructor for the class. (U.S. Army Photograph)

A gate section built by the Works Progress Administration

A gate section built by the Works Progress Administration

A gate section built by the Works Progress Administration in 1941 is shown on South Post near the housing area May 2, 2018, at Fort McCoy, Wis. From 1935-1941, the Works Progress Administration made significant... More

A worker with contractor Nuvo Construction of Milwaukee

A worker with contractor Nuvo Construction of Milwaukee

A worker with contractor Nuvo Construction of Milwaukee works on a barracks building in the 1900 block on June 15, 2017, on the cantonment area at Fort McCoy, Wis. Work us being completed to renovate six World ... More

A gate section built by the Works Progress Administration

A gate section built by the Works Progress Administration

A gate section built by the Works Progress Administration in 1941 is shown on South Post near Highway 16 on Aug. 2, 2020, at Fort McCoy, Wis. From 1935-1941, the Works Progress Administration made significant c... More

Parade field at Camp McCoy, 1959

Parade field at Camp McCoy, 1959

Maj. Gen. Smith and Brig. Gen. John Dunlap review troops on the parade field at Camp McCoy, Wis., in 1959. Cantonment area buildings are in the background. (U.S. Army file photo)

Budget Technician Karen Hanratty with the Resource

Budget Technician Karen Hanratty with the Resource

Budget Technician Karen Hanratty with the Resource Management Office works on a project Oct. 19, 2017, in building 1913 at Fort McCoy, Wis. (U.S. Army Photo by Aimee Malone, Public Affairs Office, Fort McCoy, Wis.)

An exterior view of an area of the Fort McCoy Combined

An exterior view of an area of the Fort McCoy Combined

An exterior view of an area of the Fort McCoy Combined Arms Collective Training Facility (CACTF) complex is shown Aug. 30, 2018, at Fort McCoy, Wis. The CACTF provides a wide variety of training environments. T... More

A view of the tower at Range 26 is shown on North Post

A view of the tower at Range 26 is shown on North Post

A view of the tower at Range 26 is shown on North Post on Sept. 28, 2018, at Fort McCoy, Wis. The tower is relatively new and was constructed in the past year on post as part of continued improvements to the in... More

Holocaust survivor Nathan Taffel shares his story during

Holocaust survivor Nathan Taffel shares his story during

Holocaust survivor Nathan Taffel shares his story during the Fort McCoy Days of Remembrance observance April 30, 2019, in building 905 at Fort McCoy, Wis. Taffel was born Naftali Taffel to a farming family in P... More

Soldiers await the start of the installation observance

Soldiers await the start of the installation observance

Soldiers await the start of the installation observance of the Army Reserve’s 110th birthday April 23, 2018, at the Staff Sgt. Todd R. Cornell Noncommissioned Officer Academy at Fort McCoy, Wis. Dozens of peopl... More

Pieces of a broken milk glass mustard dish shaped like

Pieces of a broken milk glass mustard dish shaped like

Pieces of a broken milk glass mustard dish shaped like a battleship are shown. The pieces were found during a 2015 archaeological excavation at Fort McCoy. The mustard dish dates to between 1898 and 1908 and we... More

Fort McCoy ArtiFACT: 28th Infantry insignia

Fort McCoy ArtiFACT: 28th Infantry insignia

An insignia pin for the 28th Infantry Regiment is shown Sept. 29, 2014, that was found at Fort McCoy, Wis., in 2013. The pin dates to around 1910 where Camp Emory Upton was once located at the installation. (Ph... More

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