The first two crews to achieve a distinguished rating at mounted gunnery received an Army Achievement Medal and an excellence in marksmanship coin from the Army Reserve Marksmanship Program at Fort McCoy, Wis., March 20, 2017, during Operation Cold Steel. To achieve distinguished crews must score at least a combined total of 900 out of 1,000 points during day and night live-fire. Pictured left to right are: Sgt. Eric Wooden, Spc. Rank Crosley and Pfc. Chase Schoeller, 318th Tactical Psychological Operations Company, United States Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command, an


The first two crews to achieve a distinguished rating at mounted gunnery received an Army Achievement Medal and an excellence in marksmanship coin from the Army Reserve Marksmanship Program at Fort McCoy, Wis., March 20, 2017, during Operation Cold Steel. To achieve distinguished crews must score at least a combined total of 900 out of 1,000 points during day and night live-fire. Pictured left to right are: Sgt. Eric Wooden, Spc. Rank Crosley and Pfc. Chase Schoeller, 318th Tactical Psychological Operations Company, United States Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command, and Sgt. 1st Class Wesley Beck, Sgt. Chaz Harley and Spc. Shea Estep, 560th Movement Control Team, 79th Sustainment Support Command. Operation Cold Steel is the Army Reserve's crew-served weapons qualification and validation exercise to ensure that America's Army Reserve units and soldiers are trained and ready to deploy on short-notice and bring combat-ready and lethal firepower in support of the Army and our joint partners anywhere in the world.


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