Interview with Staff Sgt. Alicia Curtis

Interview with Staff Sgt. Alicia Curtis, senior instructor at Regional Training Site-Maintenance Fort McCoy on Wheeled-Vehicle Recovery Operations Course

Credit: Scott Sturkol | Date Taken: 07/24/2023
Staff Sgt. Alicia Curtis, senior instructor at Regional Training Site-Maintenance Fort McCoy, discusses how training is taking place July 24, 2023, during the Wheeled-Vehicle Recovery Operations Course at Fort McCoy, Wis. The 17-day course covers operation and maintenance of recovery vehicles and use of standard procedures to rig and recover wheeled vehicles. Related training tasks include oxygen and acetylene gas welding; boom and hoist operations; winch operations; and recovery of mired, overturned, and disabled vehicles. RTS-Maintenance holds several sessions of the Wheeled-Vehicle Operations Course each year and trains Soldiers from both active- and reserve-component forces. (U.S. Army Video by Scott T. Sturkol, Public Affairs Office, Fort McCoy, Wis.)