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Fort McCoy’s total economic impact for fiscal year (FY) 2019 was an estimated $1.184 billion, slightly above the $1.135 billion reported for FY 2018, garrison officials announced.
The data was compiled by Fort McCoy’s Plans, Analysis and Integration Office.
Workforce payroll, operating costs, and other expenditures totaled $296 million for FY 2019 compared to $283.7 million for FY 2018.
A total of 2,622 personnel worked at Fort McCoy in FY 2019 — 1,538 civilians, 523 military, and 561 contract employees.
Approximately 74 percent of the workforce lives within Monroe County. The total FY 2019 workforce payroll for civilian and military personnel was $162.66 million.
FY 2019 operating costs of $120.56 million included utilities, physical plant maintenance, repair and improvements, new construction projects, purchases of supplies and services, as well as salaries for civilian contract personnel working at Fort McCoy.
Other expenditures accounted for $12.86 million and covered $346,778 in payments to local governments (including land permit agreements, school district impact aid, etc.) as well as $12.52 million in discretionary spending in local communities by service members training at Fort McCoy.
Other factors of economic impact for the fiscal year included $27.6 million in new construction of buildings and ranges; $28.1 million in facility maintenance and repair; and $39.7 million for contracts for construction, services, and supplies on post.
Fort McCoy supported training for 125,166 personnel in FY 2019, which ran from Oct. 1, 2018, to Sept. 30, 2019. The training population included reserve- and active-component personnel from throughout the military.
The Fort McCoy Executive Summary, available on the installation website, www.home.army.mil/mccoy, shows the installation makes continuous improvements to provide a training plethora of training capabilities for service members.
“Throughout the last decade, Fort McCoy experienced unprecedented facility modernization, training area development and expansion, increased training and customer support capability, and improved quality-of-life opportunities,” the summary states. “From unmanned aerial vehicles, to urban training facilities, to live-fire ranges and virtual-training environments, Fort McCoy is prepared to meet the training needs of the Army in the 21st century.”
Additionally, troops who have completed training at the installation have said Fort McCoy is among the best places in the Army for training for many reasons.
For example, from late March to early May 2019, hundreds of Army Reserve Soldiers completed training as members of Convoy Protection Platform gunnery crews during Operation Cold Steel III/Task Force Fortnite at Fort McCoy.
Task Force Fortnite Commander Lt. Col. Greg Derner said the installation worked well for the difficult training they completed.
“The ranges themselves are the best equipped, technologically, in the Army Reserve,” Derner said about Fort McCoy. “Of the locations where they have conducted Cold Steel, McCoy is the best. … Overall the installation is well set up to do this.”
Similarly, during six classes of the Fort McCoy Cold-Weather Operations Course (CWOC) held from December 2018 through March 2019, instructors received constant feedback from each class about how Fort McCoy was an ideal winter training location.
“Fort McCoy is always a good place for any kind of training I have done since joining the military,” said CWOC Class 19-06 student Sgt. Joshua Harvey with the 323rd Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Company of Sioux Falls, S.D. “I will definitely be encouraging Soldiers from my unit to attend this course because it is good training, and the instructors are full of endless knowledge.”
A gross multiplier index (GMI) of 4.0 was used to determine the overall effect of the expenditures in the local economy.
The GMI measures the number of times a dollar turns over within a region and was developed by the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
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.”
(Article prepared by the Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office.)
| Date Taken: | 02.25.2020 |
| Date Posted: | 02.25.2020 16:36 |
| Story ID: | 363883 |
| Location: | FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, US |
| Hometown: | SPARTA, WISCONSIN, US |
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