652nd Multi-Role Bridge Company. A northwest Wisconsin Army Resreve unit lays these types of bridges from interlocking pontoon elements for temporary tactical movements in combat zones.
Huge Army exercise planned at Fountain City
FOUNTAIN CITY, Wis. – An Army combat unit will practice building a collapsible pontoon bridge across the Army Corps dredging base at Fountain City in August. The exercise will be spectacle with heavy construction equipment, bridge erection boats, rafts and giant over-road bridge transporters. The Corps invited the public to watch albeit from a safe distance. The 652nd Multi-Role Bridge Company of Hammond, Wisconsin, will be conducting the exercise. The unit’s mission in combat is to overcome river and bog obstacles for friendly troops, tanks, heavy equipment and supply convoys where bridges have been destroyed or never existed. The exercise will run August 9 to 11. The public boat ramp in Fountain City will be closed.