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FORT CARSON, Colo. - Oshkosh Corporation has been a pioneer in military vehicle systems and technologies since 1917. They have delivered and sustained more than 190,000 tactical wheeled vehicles to our military across the world.
It's critical for Soldiers who operate and maintain these vehicles to understand these vehicles for both safety and readiness. Therefore, Oshkosh personnel travel across installations like Fort Carson to train troops and help them complete their missions successfully.
Oshkosh Defense provides training for their light tactical vehicles, medium tactical vehicles, and heavy tactical vehicles. However, the focus of the current two-week course here is to provide the Ivy Division Soldiers with maintenance training on the Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck.
“We travel around bases all around the world and we teach maintenance,” said Dave Sattler, a product training specialist for Oshkosh Defense. “We’re teaching how to upkeep on the vehicles, how to troubleshoot them, and operate them correctly and safely to keep our military partners safe and in a good state of readiness.”
Oshkosh just signed a contract with Fort Carson to give training on HEMTT maintenance, Joint Light Tactical Vehicle maintenance, and JLTV operations on a more regular basis.
“This class is going to go a long way in keeping these vehicles ready for deployment and showing them basic maintenance is the most important thing on any vehicle,” said Sattler.
The trainers used their combined real-world mechanical and operational experience with factory training and first-hand vehicle knowledge and created an advanced learning experience for the Ivy Division Soldiers.
The Oshkosh trainers are certified experts on the technologies and vehicle platforms they support, therefore they equipped the mechanics with a level of new expertise on the HEMTTs.
“This training entails on how to service the HEMTTs,” said Sattler. “Change the oils, change the wheel bearings, and fix the normal wear and tear parts on the vehicles to keep them in a better state of readiness.”
During the training, the Soldiers pulled the front hubs off the HEMTTs, took off the tires, rotated the tires, drained the oil, cleaned the wheel bearings, greased all of the zerks on the trucks, and completed smaller tasks that needed to be done.
“This class provides the proper training and the proper resources to dive into the proper way of serving and maintaining the HEMTTs,” said Sgt. Jakob Benavides, a wheeled vehicle mechanic from 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Inf. Div.
Some Soldiers approached the tasks confidently while others required more assistance from the Oshkosh trainers.
However, the training gave the mechanics the ability to strengthen their unit's fighting capabilities and further advance the Army’s mission with the knowledge they gained from this course.
“I recommend this class because you have Oshkosh personnel that know a lot more about the trucks than we do and they worked on it longer,” said Benavides.
All in all, the training helped build the Wheeled Vehicle Mechanic Soldiers’ confidence and expertise in vehicle maintenance.
| Date Taken: | 10.19.2023 |
| Date Posted: | 10.19.2023 19:00 |
| Story ID: | 456139 |
| Location: | FORT CARSON, COLORADO, US |
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