Soldiers with the Army Reserve’s 469th and 402nd Combat Engineer Companies carried out a major live-fire training exercise at Fort McCoy on August 3.
The event featured the detonation of a Mine Clearing Line Charge, or “MICLIC” — a rocket-propelled system that lays out more than 2,000 pounds of explosives to blast a safe lane through a minefield. Staff Sergeant Nathan Schulke said it’s rare to see the system fired during training, calling it “a pretty big deal.”
The explosion echoed well beyond the base’s borders, but officials say it went exactly as planned.
Both units were at Fort McCoy for two weeks of annual training. The Wisconsin installation hosts tens of thousands of service members each year and is known as The Total Force Training Center.
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