FA Journal articles from July 2006

FA Journal archives from July 2006

The FA and COIN: continuity and adaptation.(Army's Joint Fires Coordinator (JFCOORD))(Counterinsurgency)
July 1, 2006... During peacetime, the institutional Army drives change. During war, the operating force drives change through gained combat experience. General William S. Wallace, CG Training and Doctrine Command Military Review, March-April 2006 ...

Pentathletes in the 82nd Airborne Division: developing critical capabilities for the Army.(Interview)
July 1, 2006... This interview was conducted just before Major General Caldwell gave up command of the 82nd Airborne Division on 7 April. Editor Q You directed your division artillery (Div Arty) commander (Colonel Victor Petrenko) to transition the...

The multipurpose BUB in the COE.(contemporary operating environment)(battle update brief)
July 1, 2006... On the battlefield, information is power. This has not changed for as long as men have endeavored to defeat one another on the battlefield. What has changed is that the volume of information on today's battlefield can overwhelm commanders and...

Rapid redesign of FACCC: a four-week process for updating courses for an Army at war.(Field Artillery Captain's Career Course )
July 1, 2006... The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. President Abraham Lincoln Second...

Redesigning the FACCC: the deliberate versus rapid methodology.(Field Artillery Captain's Career Course )
July 1, 2006... The leadership of the FA Captain's Career Course (FACCC), Fort Sill, Oklahoma, recently created and implemented a bold initiative to redesign the course rapidly. The leadership stood down two FACCC classes to help in the redesign, used the...

The FA is alive and well: in fact, thriving.(United States. Army. Field Artillery)
July 1, 2006... Soldiers and leaders have heard stories of the FA reconfiguring as part of the modular Army. It seems some only hear the downsizing aspects of the FA transformation and are certain the FA is dead or, at least, on life support. Some believe...

Battlekings return to Baghdad as a maneuver battalion: doing more with less.
July 1, 2006... The 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery (1-9 FA) Battlekings, the fires battalion in the 2nd Brigade Combat Team (BCT), 3rd Infantry Division, returned to Iraq once again, but this time for a very different mission as a maneuver battalion. The...

A fires battalion in OIF III: supporting decentralized "hot" platoons and other missions.(Operation Iraqi Freedom)
July 1, 2006... The 1st Brigade Combat Team (BCT), Raiders, 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized), deployed from Fort Stewart, Georgia, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) III from January 2005 to January 2006. The Raider Brigade--the first unit to reach...

The FA in the long war: a new mission in COIN.(Field Artillery )(counterinsurgency)
July 1, 2006... America's overwhelming conventional military superiority makes it unlikely that future enemies will confront us head on. Rather, they will attack us asymmetrically, avoiding our strengths--firepower, maneuver, technology--and come at us...

Redleg officers' new career paths: developing Pentathletes for the Army.
July 1, 2006... During recent months, the Field Artillery has undergone many career changes, as monitored by the FA Officer's Branch at Human Resources Command (HRC). Alexandria, Virginia. One of the most significant has been the shift in the career...

Current operations section of the modular brigade FEC in Afghanistan.(fires and effects cell )
July 1, 2006... Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) has entered the seventh phase of operations in Afghanistan, and a new type of unit has entered that battlespace: the modular design infantry brigade combat team (IBCT). It has the ability to obtain specific...