FA Journal articles from May 2003

FA Journal archives from May 2003

Fires in operation Iraqi freedom. (The Update Point).
May 1, 2003... Field Artillery soldiers, once again, have demonstrated in combat their professionalism, the destructive capabilities of their equipment and the importance of the FA to the combined arms team and joint force. We all should be immensely proud of...

JCAS in Operation Anaconda--it's not all bad news. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2003... Colonel Neuenswander, an A-10 Opilot (El Cid), was the Deputy Commander of the 332d Air Expeditionary Group ('AEG) at Al Jaber Air Base, Kuwait, from July 2001 to July 2002; the 332d AEG flew fighter sorties in Afghanistan (or Operation...

Commo systems lack the human element. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2003... The following three letters are responses to the article "Why Can't Joe Get the Lead Out?" by Colonel Gary H. Cheek and the letter-to-the-editor "Artillery--Never Leave Home Without It (And Don't Forget the 'Dumb' Rounds)" by Lieutenant...

40th Div Arty has woman commander.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... In July 2002, Lieutenant Colonel (Promotable) (LTC) Jane M. Anderholt took command of the 40th Infantry Division (Mechanized) Artillery of the California Army National Guard (CAARNG). She likely is the first woman to command a division...

Artillery in the future German Army structure.
May 1, 2003... The German Army is downsizing and restructuring and with it, its artillery. Although the German Artillery is downsizing this year, it also is restructuring in the process-increasing its deployable reaction forces and reorganizing to be more...

ATACMS fires for the Objective Force.
May 1, 2003... The Army is going through a transformation process that will culminate in a future combat system (FCS)-equipped Objective Force in 2008. The ground force will not be characterized by 70-ton vehicles arrayed on a linear, contiguous battlefield...

FCS 20-ton cannon in 2008 fact or fiction?
May 1, 2003... In the 1920s while reviewing the artillery developments of World War I, Lord Alanbrooke lamented the competing demands of artillery mobility and lethality. He drew upon the artillery lessons from the preceding war and the earlier Boer War:...

PFED, LWTFDS and GDU-R: you want tactical handhelds? We've got tactical handhelds!
May 1, 2003... The revolution of information technology continues at a rapid pace, and the needs and expectations of the commercial consumer have grown in kind. The same demands logically have carried over to warfighters and, correspondingly, have generated...

NLOS battalion fires and effects in the UA of 2015.
May 1, 2003... In October 1999, the Chief of Staff of the Army announced his plans to transform the Army into an Objective Force that would be more responsive, deployable, agile, versatile, lethal, survivable and sustainable. Figure 1 describes the...

Joint Training Center for Indirect Fires Integration.
May 1, 2003... A joint training center should be established at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to provide instruction and training on the integration, coordination and application of the full range of joint indirect fires. The US armed forces need a center to train...

Cannons in early entry operations: Millennium Challenge 2002.
May 1, 2003... During Millennium Challenge in the summer of 2002, a series of battles were fought at the National Training Center (NTC), Fort Irwin, California, using a combination of live and simulated forces. The first battle required the 2d Brigade of the...

USFAA offers three $1,000 scholarships for 2003.
May 1, 2003... The US Field Artillery Association (USFAA) announces the inception of three annual $1,000 scholarships to be awarded for the first time in August 2003. The scholarships are for worthy USFAA members and their immediate family members to help...

2003 Senior Fire Support Conference dates set.
May 1, 2003... Planning is underway for the next Senior Fire Support Conference (SFSC) at the Field Artillery School, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 22-24 October. Army and Marine FA commanders and their command sergeants major will meet 21 October before the main...

US Army Joint Munitions Command stood up.
May 1, 2003... On 17 January, the Army celebrated the provisional stand up of the US Army Joint Munitions Command (JMC) at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, the site of the new command. It is the Department of the Defense's field operating agency for the "single...