Arctic tough 1st Sgt. Jonathan M. Emmett leads U.S. Army Alaska Aviation Task Force soldiers assigned to Headquarters Company, 1-52 Aviation Regiment, at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, as they conduct Cold Weather Indoctrination Course II (CWIC) training November 19, 2015. (Photos by Spc. Liliana S. Magers, U.S. Army Alaska Public Affairs.) As the unconventional conflicts in […]
Fort McCoy
Loadout Room photo of the day: Marines eat out cold-weather-style during training at Fort McCoy
FORT MCCOY, WI, UNITED STATES Students in the Fort McCoy Cold-Weather Operations Course 18-01 — all U.S. Marines with units associated with the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing — prepare lunch using cold-weather rations during a break in training Dec. 12, 2017, at Fort McCoy, Wis. During the course, students learn on a variety of cold-weather […]
Loadout Room photo of the day | Return of cold-weather training resonates with Fort McCoy’s past
FORT MCCOY, WI, UNITED STATES Service members build an improvised shelter during winter training at Fort McCoy in 1989. Fort McCoy has been a destination for winter training dating back to 1943. Winter training returned to Fort McCoy in 2017 with the start of the Cold-Weather Operations Course taught by the installation’s Directorate of Plans, […]