Training Towers: Custom-Built Structures for Advanced Military and Law Enforcement Training

When standard ground-level training isn’t enough, a training tower can take your training environment to an entirely different level.

MGM Targets designs, fabricates, and installs custom training towers for military organizations, law enforcement agencies, federal agencies, and private training facilities. From rappel training and high-angle shooting to rescue operations and specialized tactical training, MGM can build a tower around your mission.

What Is a Training Tower?

A training tower is a specialized structural steel building designed to give personnel a controlled environment for practicing skills that can’t be effectively replicated at ground level.

Training towers can be configured for a wide range of applications, including:

• Rappel training
• High-angle shooting
• Rescue training
• Confined-space training
• Helicopter insertion training
• Tactical training
• Vertical access training
• Rope rescue
• Specialized military training

Because every organization has different requirements, MGM Targets approaches training towers as custom projects rather than one-size-fits-all products.

Custom Training Towers Built Around Your Mission

Every training facility has different requirements.

Some organizations need a straightforward tower for rappel training. Others may require a more complex structure incorporating multiple training components.

MGM Targets can build towers ranging from relatively simple, bare-bones structures to highly specialized facilities incorporating features such as confined-space rescue trainers and helicopter skids.

The objective is to create a structure that supports the actual training mission—not force the mission to fit a predetermined design.

Rappel Training Towers

Rappel training is one of the primary applications for MGM’s tower systems.

A properly designed rappel tower gives military, law enforcement, rescue, and other professional organizations a controlled environment for practicing vertical movement and rope-based operations.

MGM has been building rappel training towers and high-angle shooting towers since 2004.

The company has also designed, fabricated, and installed towers for military organizations and federal agencies across the United States.

High-Angle Shooting Training

Some training missions require personnel to operate from elevated positions.

MGM’s experience includes the design and construction of high-angle shooting towers, providing specialized facilities for organizations that need elevated shooting and tactical training capabilities.

These structures can be incorporated into a larger training facility or designed as a dedicated training tower depending on the customer’s requirements.

More Than Just a Tower

One of the biggest advantages of working with MGM Targets is the ability to integrate multiple training functions into a single structure.

Depending on the project, a training tower can incorporate specialized features such as:

Helipads and Helo Skids

Training facilities can be designed with helicopter-related training components, including helo skids and other structures intended to support specialized insertion and extraction training.

Confined-Space Training

For organizations involved in rescue operations, confined-space training components can be incorporated into the tower design.

This allows personnel to practice specialized procedures in a controlled training environment.

Rescue Training

Training towers can also provide vertical structures for rescue and high-angle operations, helping organizations create a more comprehensive training environment.

Rappel Walls

Dedicated rappel walls can be incorporated into tower designs to provide appropriate surfaces and configurations for vertical rope training.

Built From Structural Steel

A training tower needs to be more than functional—it needs to be engineered and constructed for the demands of professional training.

MGM Targets brings decades of experience in structural steel fabrication and erection to its tower projects. The company states that it has been involved in structural steel fabrication since 1974 and structural steel erection since 1985.

That experience provides a strong foundation for designing and constructing large, specialized training structures.

A Proven Track Record

MGM’s experience with training towers includes large-scale projects for military and government organizations.

The company reports that its first live-fire, high-angle shooting tower was a 60-foot-tall structure completed in just under 14 days. MGM has since designed, fabricated, and installed towers for every branch of the military as well as several federal agencies and private organizations.

That experience gives customers the benefit of working with a company familiar with complex structural projects and specialized training requirements.

Training Towers Designed to Your Specifications

Most MGM training tower projects are custom-built to the customer’s specifications.

That means the design process can account for factors such as:

• Required tower height
• Training objectives
• Number of training stations
• Rappel requirements
• High-angle shooting requirements
• Rescue training
• Confined-space components
• Helicopter-related training
• Site requirements
• Environmental considerations

MGM notes that some projects require soil and geographical investigations, particularly for projects outside the continental United States.

From Concept to Installation

Building a specialized training tower requires more than fabrication.

MGM Targets can provide a project approach that includes designing, fabricating, and erecting the tower.

This gives organizations a single experienced partner for a complex construction project rather than having to coordinate multiple companies for different portions of the work.

MGM states that it can often provide budgetary pricing in less than a week once project requirements are understood, with solid quotes typically available in less than two weeks after the details have been finalized, although project-specific investigations can affect those timelines.

Training Towers for Military and Federal Agencies

Professional training organizations require facilities that can support realistic, repeatable training.

MGM has experience working with military branches, federal agencies, and private entities on custom tower projects.

That experience includes projects ranging from basic towers to highly specialized structures incorporating multiple training capabilities.

For organizations planning a new facility, that experience can be invaluable during the design and planning stages.

Why Choose MGM Targets?

MGM Targets is perhaps best known for its steel shooting targets, but its capabilities extend well beyond individual range equipment.

The company combines experience in steel fabrication, shooting ranges, target systems, and specialized training structures.

Its training tower capabilities include:

Custom Design
Build a tower around your organization’s specific training requirements.

Structural Steel Fabrication
Decades of experience working with structural steel.

Professional Erection
MGM can take projects from fabrication through installation.

Specialized Training Features
Incorporate rappel walls, rescue training, confined-space trainers, helo skids, and other specialized components.

Military and Government Experience
Experience designing and installing towers for military branches and federal agencies.

Build Your Training Tower with MGM Targets

A quality training tower can become the centerpiece of a comprehensive military, law enforcement, rescue, or tactical training facility.

Whether you need a basic rappel tower or a highly specialized structure incorporating high-angle shooting, rescue training, confined-space components, and helicopter training features, MGM Targets can design and build a solution around your requirements.

With decades of structural steel experience and a history of working on specialized training facilities, MGM Targets brings the experience needed to take your project from concept to completed structure.

Have a training tower project in mind?

Talk with MGM Targets about your requirements and start designing a training tower built around your mission.

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