Sgt. 1st Class Timothy Phillips, senior instructor

Sgt. 1st Class Timothy Phillips, senior instructor and writer with Regional Training Site (RTS)-Maintenance, drives an M88A1 Medium-Tracked Recovery Vehicle during operations for the Tracked Vehicle Recovery Course on July 19, 2018, at a training area on North Post at Fort McCoy, Wis. The course was the last of three sessions held during fiscal year 2018. 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. (U.S. Army Photo by Scott T. Sturkol, Public Affairs Office, Fort McCoy, Wis.)