Photo Essay: Getting muddy for training

By Scott SturkolAugust 3, 2018

Students build skills in tracked vehicle recovery during RTS-Maintenance course at Fort McCoy
1 / 16 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Students in the Regional Training Site (RTS)-Maintenance Tracked Vehicle Recovery Course prepare to hook an M88A1 Medium-Tracked Recovery Vehicle to another M88A1 during course operations July 19, 2018, at a training area on North Post at Fort McCoy,... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Students build skills in tracked vehicle recovery during RTS-Maintenance course at Fort McCoy
2 / 16 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Students in the Regional Training Site (RTS)-Maintenance Tracked Vehicle Recovery Course prepare to hook an M88A1 Medium-Tracked Recovery Vehicle to another M88A1 during course operations July 19, 2018, at a training area on North Post at Fort McCoy,... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Students build skills in tracked vehicle recovery during RTS-Maintenance course at Fort McCoy
3 / 16 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Students in the Regional Training Site (RTS)-Maintenance Tracked Vehicle Recovery Course prepare to hook an M88A1 Medium-Tracked Recovery Vehicle to another M88A1 during course operations July 19, 2018, at a training area on North Post at Fort McCoy,... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Students build skills in tracked vehicle recovery during RTS-Maintenance course at Fort McCoy
4 / 16 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Students in the Regional Training Site (RTS)-Maintenance Tracked Vehicle Recovery Course prepare to hook an M88A1 Medium-Tracked Recovery Vehicle to another M88A1 during course operations July 19, 2018, at a training area on North Post at Fort McCoy,... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Students build skills in tracked vehicle recovery during RTS-Maintenance course at Fort McCoy
5 / 16 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Students in the Regional Training Site (RTS)-Maintenance Tracked Vehicle Recovery Course prepare to hook an M88A1 Medium-Tracked Recovery Vehicle to another M88A1 during course operations July 19, 2018, at a training area on North Post at Fort McCoy,... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Students build skills in tracked vehicle recovery during RTS-Maintenance course at Fort McCoy
6 / 16 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Students in the Regional Training Site (RTS)-Maintenance Tracked Vehicle Recovery Course prepare to hook an M88A1 Medium-Tracked Recovery Vehicle to another M88A1 during course operations July 19, 2018, at a training area on North Post at Fort McCoy,... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Students build skills in tracked vehicle recovery during RTS-Maintenance course at Fort McCoy
7 / 16 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Students in the Regional Training Site (RTS)-Maintenance Tracked Vehicle Recovery Course prepare to hook an M88A1 Medium-Tracked Recovery Vehicle to another M88A1 during course operations July 19, 2018, at a training area on North Post at Fort McCoy,... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Students build skills in tracked vehicle recovery during RTS-Maintenance course at Fort McCoy
8 / 16 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Students in the Regional Training Site (RTS)-Maintenance Tracked Vehicle Recovery Course prepare to hook an M88A1 Medium-Tracked Recovery Vehicle to another M88A1 during course operations July 19, 2018, at a training area on North Post at Fort McCoy,... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Students build skills in tracked vehicle recovery during RTS-Maintenance course at Fort McCoy
9 / 16 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Students in the Regional Training Site (RTS)-Maintenance Tracked Vehicle Recovery Course prepare to hook an M88A1 Medium-Tracked Recovery Vehicle to another M88A1 during course operations July 19, 2018, at a training area on North Post at Fort McCoy,... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Students build skills in tracked vehicle recovery during RTS-Maintenance course at Fort McCoy
10 / 16 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Students in the Regional Training Site (RTS)-Maintenance Tracked Vehicle Recovery Course prepare to hook an M88A1 Medium-Tracked Recovery Vehicle to another M88A1 during course operations July 19, 2018, at a training area on North Post at Fort McCoy,... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Students build skills in tracked vehicle recovery during RTS-Maintenance course at Fort McCoy
11 / 16 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Students in the Regional Training Site (RTS)-Maintenance Tracked Vehicle Recovery Course prepare to hook an M88A1 Medium-Tracked Recovery Vehicle to another M88A1 during course operations July 19, 2018, at a training area on North Post at Fort McCoy,... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Students build skills in tracked vehicle recovery during RTS-Maintenance course at Fort McCoy
12 / 16 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Students in the Regional Training Site (RTS)-Maintenance Tracked Vehicle Recovery Course prepare to hook an M88A1 Medium-Tracked Recovery Vehicle to another M88A1 during course operations July 19, 2018, at a training area on North Post at Fort McCoy,... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Students build skills in tracked vehicle recovery during RTS-Maintenance course at Fort McCoy
13 / 16 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Students in the Regional Training Site (RTS)-Maintenance Tracked Vehicle Recovery Course prepare to hook an M88A1 Medium-Tracked Recovery Vehicle to another M88A1 during course operations July 19, 2018, at a training area on North Post at Fort McCoy,... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Students build skills in tracked vehicle recovery during RTS-Maintenance course at Fort McCoy
14 / 16 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Students in the Regional Training Site (RTS)-Maintenance Tracked Vehicle Recovery Course prepare to hook an M88A1 Medium-Tracked Recovery Vehicle to another M88A1 during course operations July 19, 2018, at a training area on North Post at Fort McCoy,... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Students build skills in tracked vehicle recovery during RTS-Maintenance course at Fort McCoy
15 / 16 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Students in the Regional Training Site (RTS)-Maintenance Tracked Vehicle Recovery Course prepare to hook an M88A1 Medium-Tracked Recovery Vehicle to another M88A1 during course operations July 19, 2018, at a training area on North Post at Fort McCoy,... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Students build skills in tracked vehicle recovery during RTS-Maintenance course at Fort McCoy
16 / 16 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Students in the Regional Training Site (RTS)-Maintenance Tracked Vehicle Recovery Course prepare to hook an M88A1 Medium-Tracked Recovery Vehicle to another M88A1 during course operations July 19, 2018, at a training area on North Post at Fort McCoy,... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL

Students in the Regional Training Site (RTS)-Maintenance Tracked Vehicle Recovery Course waded through hip-deep mud in a mire pit to hook an M88A1 Medium-Tracked Recovery Vehicle to another M88A1 during course training operations July 19, 2018, at a training area on North Post at Fort McCoy, Wis.

The training scenario to remove a tracked vehicle stuck in the mud was just one of several scenarios that students had to wade through.

The course provides the H8 additional skill identifier for 91-series Soldiers and consists of 134 hours of classroom, field, and hands-on training.

The course focuses on determining recovery methods; operating metal-cutting equipment; tracked vehicle preventive maintenance checks and services and basic issue items; driving tracked recovery vehicles and operating the various winches on those vehicles; booms, hoists, and auxiliary equipment; recovering mired and overturned tracked vehicles; towing disabled tracked vehicles; and self-recovery of tracked vehicles.

Each session of the course includes approximately 12 students. RTS-Maintenance at Fort McCoy trains Soldiers from both active- and reserve-component forces.

Learn more about Fort McCoy training, online at www.mccoy.army.mil, on Facebook by searching "ftmccoy," and on Twitter by searching "usagmccoy.