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What are the three main position for an LT in the field artillery?
PL, FDC, and FSO
What is a tool used to conduct manual survey?
Aiming Circle
What are the three target effects? What does each one mean?
Destruction - 30 percent casualties
Neutralization -10 percent casualties
Suppression -Limits the ability of enemy personnel to perform their mission.
What are the six elements to a call for fire and how many transmissions?
Observer Identification and warning order
Target location
Target description, method of engagement, and method of fire and control
How do you Artillery Express?
If the number is xx.5 round to the nearest even number.
What does is the Acronym RSOP?
Reconnaissance, Selection, and Occupation of a Position
What is moving to different locations in a PAA called after firing so many rounds or being in one location for an extended period of time?
Survivability Movement
What is a RDP, GFT, and TFT?
Range-Deflection Protractor
Graphical Firing Table
Tabular Firing Table
How many mils in a degree?
17.78
What does PAA stand for?
Position Area Artillery
What is the range of a 105, 155, and GMLRS?
11 km, 17.5km, 70km
For a more accurate quadrant to less than a mil. What is used?
Gunners Sight
What is the form for manually calculating MET corrections?
DA Form 4200
What is the acronym for tactically occupying an observation post? What is is each letter in the acronym?
SLOCTOP
What event prior to a mission is crucial in successful coordination, synchronization, and deconfliction?
Rehearsals
What six factors will determine if LT needs to make a new safety T?
Firing position, charge, projectile, fuze, angle of fire, and AOL
What is the methods of employing howitzers?
Platoon, Paired, Single Howitzer
What is the minimum quadrant elevation necessary to clear the crest visible from the battery position and, possibly, invisible crests when VT fuzes are being used?
XO Minimum QE
What are two adjustment techniques?
Successive Bracketing
Hasty Bracketing
One round adjustment
Creeping Fire
What are the characteristics of the offense in an operation? How do they affect the battle?
Audacity, Concentration, Surprise, and Tempo
What are the three Big Checks when initially occupying the PAA?
Location of the howitzer, Direction of the Howitzer, loading elevation / min QE / data base of the howitzer
Who is the King of Battle?
Field Artillery
What is the 10 elements of indirect fire commands?
WARNO, Pieces to follow/ pieces to fire / method of fire, special instructions, projectile, Lot, charge, fuze, deflection, quadrant elevation, method of fire for effect
What are the two ways to implement smoke?
Obscure and screen
What is the mission of the field artillery?
The mission of the field artillery is to destroy, neutralize, or suppress the enemy by cannon, rocket, and misslie fire and to integrate and synchronize all fire support assets into large-scale ground combat.