FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri ~ 03 FEB 2026

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

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Road Trip: Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri

Fort Leonard Wood is a U.S. Army training installation located in the Missouri Ozarks. The main gate is located on the southern boundary of The City of St. Robert. The post was created in December 1940 and named in honor of General Leonard Wood (former Chief of Staff) in January 1941. Originally intended to train infantry troops, in 1941 it became an engineer training post with the creation of the Engineer Replacement Training Center.

The Maneuver Support Center of Excellence offers Basic Combat Training (BCT) for most non-combat arms soldiers, and Advanced Individual Training (AIT) for MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) 88M (motor transport operator) and MOS 74D (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear specialists).

It also provides non-combat engineer MOS training, OSUT (One-Station Unit Training) for combat engineers and bridging engineers (MOS 12B and 12C), and AIT for military police (31B, 31K & 31E). All training is gender integrated as is Fort Jackson.

Newly commissioned second lieutenants in the CBRN, Engineer, and Military Police branches attend the Basic Officer Leader Course Phase B at the Maneuver Support Center of Excellence.

The Maneuver Support Center of Excellence NCO Academy conducts the Senior and Advanced Leader Courses for the Chemical, Engineer, and Military Police branches, the Advanced Leader Course for Ordnance NCOs in MOS 62B, and the Warrior Leader Course for all Army NCO MOSs.

The CBRN, Engineer, and Military Police schools provide Professional Military Education and functional courses for soldiers, Non-commissioned Officers, Warrant Officers, and Commissioned Officers, including but not limited to the Captains Career Course and the Battalion and Brigade Pre-Command Courses.

The Chemical Corps conducts operations to protect the force and the nation from Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) / Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) threats and hazards.

Learn More About Fort Leonard Wood HERE!!

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[radu]

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[luvie]

~ Road Trip: Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri ~

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[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening SkyDancer, great to see ya!

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy and thank you radu!

[PROCON]

I spent 3 weeks there in early 1976, thanks Lauren!

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening to you luvie!

*HUGS*

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening PROCON!

Looks like a fascinating base!

[left that other site]

Hi Everybody!

(((HUGS)))

[luvie]

Hi there, lauren! Good to see you. Thanks for our road trip tonight!

I’m guessing it was nice and warm there like it was here. It got up to 68°...very nice indeed.

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening left that other site!

*HUGS*

[left that other site]

Staying in tonight....it’s COLD out there.

Supposed to go down to 4 degrees tonight.

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[laurenmarlowe]

Great to see you too luvie!

Yup, beautiful 70 degrees here, so nice today. I know we will get a few more cold days this month, but Spring for us is around the corner!

[radu]

Howdy, lauren. *Hugz*

How are y’all faring after the crazy weather lately? Getting a warm-up and some calm ...... well, not counting your workload? :-)

[laurenmarlowe]

YIKES! Stay warm and stay safe!

[laurenmarlowe]

Beautiful day here, YAY!

Kiddos sent me pictures of the 8 inches of snow they got over the weekend. Kinda glad I’m here and not there.

Workload? Crazy and getting crazier, glad some things happen only once a year!

[decal]

My father-in-law was an Army Engineer and spent time in Ft Lost-in-the-Wood.

Didn’t care for it much.

[left that other site]

I have to admit, I’m getting a little sick and tired of the failure of GloBull Warming!

[radu]

I heard there were some nice temps down there the past couple of days or so. Enjoy! A lot of us are jealous! LOL

It was fairly nice here today - at last - after being bitter cold for over a week. Not as nice as there though. Next week is looking to be wonderful though.

I was up all night watching what was happening in NC. I wondered how your family were faring. They got a good dumping of snow in them thar mountains.

You’d mentioned they were loading you up with work. Time to get the rocket pack and roller blades out. LOL