Photo Essay: Engineer unit loads railcars for deployment at Fort McCoy

Photo By Scott Sturkol | Military vehicles and equipment with the 389th Engineer Battalion is loaded on railcars Feb. 5, 2019, at the rail yard at Fort McCoy, Wis. The movement is for the 389th’s future involvement in Operation Resolute Castle 2019 in Poland. Unit Soldiers loaded 38 cars with vehicles and equipment after receiving training in a rail head operations class by representatives of Marine Corps Logistics Base-Barstow, Calif. Fort McCoy’s Logistics Readiness Center personnel assisted with the loading operations. (U.S. Army Photo by Scott T. Sturkol, Public Affairs Office, Fort McCoy, Wis.)  

FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, UNITED STATES

02.12.2019

Story by Scott Sturkol                                                                                               

Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office           

Military vehicles and equipment with the 389th Engineer Battalion were loaded on railcars Feb. 5, 2019, at the rail yard at Fort McCoy, Wis.

The movement is for the 389th’s future involvement in Operation Resolute Castle 2019 in Poland.

Unit Soldiers loaded 38 cars with vehicles and equipment after receiving training in a rail head operations class by representatives of Marine Corps Logistics Base-Barstow, Calif.

Fort McCoy’s Logistics Readiness Center personnel assisted with the loading operations.

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 each year since 1984.

Learn more about Fort McCoy online at https://home.army.mil/mccoy, on Facebook by searching “ftmccoy,” and on Twitter by searching “usagmccoy.

• Date Taken: 02.12.2019
• Date Posted: 02.12.2019 16:59
• Story ID: 310481
• Location: FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, US