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{{Short description|US Army Reserve installation}}
{{Infobox military installation
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File:Bob Hope at LaCrosse 1990.jpg|Fort McCoy commander and [[Bob Hope]] at a 1990 show in La Crosse, Wisconsin<ref name=triad>{{cite web |title=McCoy rallied to support nation's call |newspaper=The Triad |location=Fort McCoy |url=http://www.mccoy.army.mil/vtriad_online/01262001/desert%20shield-storm.htm |access-date=2015-09-27 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304125920/http://www.mccoy.army.mil/vtriad_online/01262001/desert%20shield-storm.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
File:Headquarters, 2nd Battalion, 351st Regiment on Fort McCoy 1980s.jpg|2nd Battalion, [[351st Infantry Regiment (United States)|351st Regiment]]'s Headquarters at Fort McCoy in the 1980s during Annual Training
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==Exercises and training==
Fort McCoy hosts large-scale exercises multiple times each year: a WAREX (Warrior Exercise) focused on platoon level training, and a CSTX (Combat Support Training Exercise)<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=STAND-TO! |url=https://www.army.mil/standto/archive/2018
The installation also hosts Global Medic, an annual joint-field training exercise designed to replicate all aspects of theater combat medical support, and Operation Cold Steel, a major initiative to improve the Army Reserve's gunnery training, from February through May 2018.<ref>http://www.usar.army.mil/Featured/Training-Exercises/Cold-Steel/ Operation Cold Steel home page</ref><ref>http://www.usar.army.mil/News/Display/Article/1443400/staged-equipment-for-operation-cold-steel-ii-at-fort-mccoy/ Staged equipment for Operation Cold Steel II at Fort McCoy</ref> These exercises are organized by the [[86th Infantry Division (United States)|86th Training Division]] and facilitated by the Observer/Controller-Trainers of the [[181st Infantry Brigade (United States)|181st Infantry Brigade]].
Between December and March, the Cold Weather Operations Course (CWOC) trains personnel to operate specialized military equipment under winter conditions. This course is open to the regular Army, Army National Guard, and Army Reserve soldiers as well as Navy, Marine, and Air Force personnel.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Army Rangers complete training in cold-weather ops course at Fort McCoy |url=https://www.dvidshub.net/news/314891/army-rangers-complete-training-cold-weather-ops-course-fort-mccoy
== Prisoners of war ==
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Health was important factor to Fort McCoy. They had an on-site hospital that POWs could use if they were ill and had access to prescription medicines and the camp dentist.<ref name=":13" />
They were allowed to practice religion freely. Japanese POWs were given a chapel which was converted to a place of worship. Buddhist preaching was performed daily and in order to perform,
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