Photo Essay: UH-72 Lakota operations for Patriot North 2019 exercise at Fort McCoy

Photo By Scott Sturkol | A UH-72 Lakota helicopter and crew with Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 376th Aviation Regiment (Security and Support) of the Nebraska National Guard at Lincoln airlift a simulated victim July 16, 2019, at Young Air Assault Strip on South Post at Fort McCoy, Wis., as part of Patriot North 2019 exercise operations. The National Guard Bureau exercise is designed for civilian emergency management and responders to work with military entities in the same manner they would during disasters. Patriot North provided Soldiers and Airmen with a chance to improve their skills to respond to a natural disaster and work with emergency management agencies. More than 700 civilians, volunteers, and National Guard Soldiers and Airmen from more than 20 states supported the 2019 exercise at Volk Field, Wis., and Fort McCoy. (U.S. Army Photo by Scott T. Sturkol, Public Affairs Office, Fort McCoy, Wis.)  

FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, UNITED STATES

08.01.2019

Story by Scott Sturkol                                                                                               

Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office           

A UH-72 Lakota helicopter and crew with Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 376th Aviation Regiment (Security and Support) of the Nebraska National Guard at Lincoln airlifted a simulated victim July 16, 2019, at Young Air Assault Strip on South Post at Fort McCoy, Wis., as part of Patriot North 2019 exercise operations.

The National Guard Bureau exercise is designed for civilian emergency management and responders to work with military entities in the same manner they would during disasters.

Patriot North provided Soldiers and Airmen with a chance to improve their skills to respond to a natural disaster and work with emergency management agencies.

More than 700 civilians, volunteers, and National Guard Soldiers and Airmen from more than 20 states supported the 2019 exercise at Volk Field, Wis., and Fort McCoy.

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: 08.01.2019
• Date Posted: 08.01.2019 14:04
• Story ID: 334108
• Location: FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, US