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The Chief of Land Staff just made what I would call the boldest move in Field Artillery since we dumped the 25 pdrs. The new plan according to the IMPLEMEMTATION DIRECTIVE TRANSFORMATION OF FIELD ARTILLERY, 3185-1 dated 20 July 2005 (If someone xould post it, my link died overnight for some reason.
We are going from a Reg Force capability of 54 guns in 9 Btys of various designs to 24 guns of the 155mm light gun variety still in 6 Btys of Guns and add 1 Bty devoted to STA. Each gun Bty will drop 2 guns but add 1 FOO Party and one Task Force FSCC. Each Regt will also gain 2 Tps of Mini UAVs and 1 Tp designated for for a Weapon Locating Sensor system as part of the STA Bty.
The Reserves will provide 2 fully formed gun dets per deployment.
It looks like the Army is seriously heading towards deploying fully functional and equiped Battle Groups in the very near future.
THERE IS NO MENTION OF MORTARS ANYWHERE IN THE NEW DIRECTIVE.
Talk softly and carry a big stick!
Oh yeah, all this is supposed to take effect 1 Apr 2006.
We are going from a Reg Force capability of 54 guns in 9 Btys of various designs to 24 guns of the 155mm light gun variety still in 6 Btys of Guns and add 1 Bty devoted to STA. Each gun Bty will drop 2 guns but add 1 FOO Party and one Task Force FSCC. Each Regt will also gain 2 Tps of Mini UAVs and 1 Tp designated for for a Weapon Locating Sensor system as part of the STA Bty.
The Reserves will provide 2 fully formed gun dets per deployment.
It looks like the Army is seriously heading towards deploying fully functional and equiped Battle Groups in the very near future.
THERE IS NO MENTION OF MORTARS ANYWHERE IN THE NEW DIRECTIVE.
Talk softly and carry a big stick!
Oh yeah, all this is supposed to take effect 1 Apr 2006.