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The 86th Training Division, a tenant organization at Fort McCoy, held Combat Support Training Exercise (CSTX) 86-19-03 from July 13 to Aug. 2 at the installation where thousands of service members built their warrior skills.
The 86th held the exercise as part of the U.S. Army Reserve commanding general’s Combat Support Training Program (CSTP). Thousands of service members with the Army as well as other military services and foreign militaries are participating in the multinational exercise.
CSTX 86-19-03 was the first of two CSTXs by the 86th taking place at Fort McCoy this year. According to the 84th Training Command, CSTP exercises are large-scale training exercises where units experience tactical training scenarios specifically designed to replicate real-world missions.
“CSTP exercises prepare … Army Reserve units to be combat-ready by immersing them in realistic scenarios where they train as they would fight,” states an 84th document about the exercises. “These exercises are developed to improve … units’ training readiness and to assess how they perform in a dynamic operational environment.”
Fort McCoy Food Program Manager Andy Pisney with the Logistics Readiness Center (LRC) said the installation provided full food-service contract support, through DCT Inc., to operate dining facility 2674 for the cantonment-based CSTX units.
“We (fed) around 600 people per mealtime at breakfast and dinner,” Pisney said. “Lunch was a Meal, Ready-to-Eat (MRE).”
Fort McCoy's Directorate of Public Works Training Facility Support Branch (TFSB) also issued 357 post facilities to support the CSTX training, said Dustin Roberts with Integrated Logistics Services that supports the TFSB.
Issued facilities included two integrated tactical training base dining facilities (DFACs), six cantonment-area DFACs, six arms vaults, 110 basic officer quarters, 155 barracks, 19 classroom facilities, 35 administrative buildings, three brigade headquarter buildings, and 21 maintenance bays.
Troops deployed to the exercise also were supported by observer-coach/trainers from several units associated with the 181st Multi-Functional Training Brigade, also a Fort McCoy tenant organization. Plus, throughout North Post and South Post, exercise participants are utilizing training areas and ranges managed by the Fort McCoy Directorate of Plans, Training, Mobilization and Security.
The second CSTX planned by the 86th, CSTX 86-19-04, takes place in August and includes other subordinate exercises taking place with it, such as Global Medic, Patriot Warrior, Northern Strike, and Nationwide Move.
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: | 08.07.2019 |
| Date Posted: | 08.07.2019 11:28 |
| Story ID: | 334876 |
| Location: | FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, US |
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