Fort McCoy holds 2024 Meet and Greet event for deer hunters at installation

Photo By Scott Sturkol | People planning to deer hunt in the 2024 gun-deer season at Fort McCoy, Wis., attend a special Meet and Greet event Nov. 22, 2024, at Whitetail Ridge Ski Area at the installation. The event was organized by the Fort McCoy Directorate of Public Works Environmental Division Natural Resources Branch and included support from the Fort McCoy Permit Sales Office, Fort McCoy Directorate of Emergency Services, and the Fort McCoy Directorate of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation. The event gave hunters an opportunity to register firearms. get any permits needed, and talk with post officials about any concerns prior to the season. Dozens of people attended. (U.S. Army Photo by Scott T. Sturkol, Public Affairs Office, Fort McCoy, Wis.)  

FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, UNITED STATES

11.28.2024

Story by Scott Sturkol                                                                                                

Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office           

People planning to deer hunt in the 2024 gun-deer season at Fort McCoy, Wis., attend a special Meet and Greet event Nov. 22, 2024, at Whitetail Ridge Ski Area at the installation.

The event was organized by the Fort McCoy Directorate of Public Works Environmental Division Natural Resources Branch and included support from the Fort McCoy Permit Sales Office, Fort McCoy Directorate of Emergency Services, and the Fort McCoy Directorate of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation.

The event gave hunters an opportunity to register firearms. get any permits needed, and talk with post officials about any concerns prior to the season.

Dozens of people attended.

Fort McCoy’s motto is to be the “Total Force Training Center.” 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 nearly every year since 1984.

Learn more about Fort McCoy online at https://home.army.mil/mccoy, on Facebook by searching “ftmccoy,” on Flickr at https://www.flickr.com/photos/fortmccoywi, on X (formerly Twitter) by searching “usagmccoy,” on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/fortmccoywi, and on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@fortmccoy.

Also try downloading the My Army Post app to your smartphone and set “Fort McCoy” or another installation as your preferred base. Fort McCoy is also part of Army’s Installation Management Command where “We Are The Army’s Home.”

(Article prepared by the Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office.)

• Date Taken: 11.28.2024
• Date Posted: 01.02.2025 18:05
• Story ID: 488640
• Location: FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, US