Rappelling Training Area, Fort Campbell

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville

Fort Campbell, KY

Mason & Hanger provided full discipline A/E design for this four-story fast rope sniper rappel tower at Fort Campbell, KY. The tower provides urban climbing and rappelling and all phases of fast-rope insertion/extraction training incorporating urban floor plans internal to the structure to provide realistic clearing of multi-story structures and facilitate elevated live-fire precision integrated shooting for Special Operations Forces. Features include a fast rope sniper rappelling tower, simulated helicopter airframe platforms, fast rope and rappelling positions, range control tower, operations/storage building, classroom building, after action review building, and ammunition breakdown.