Contrary to belief, artillery units, especially those
equipped with heavy guns, do not operate or fire their weapons in a whim, and
operate best under the skilled guidance or control of infantry units.
“The inter-operability of the army artillery with other
units of the Armed Forces of the Philippines
He also added that it is the primary responsibility of the
friendly (government) troops to inform artillery units that they are operating
somewhere or when the need immediately arises.
"They should be able to provide their location and the
direction where they wanted to drop the artillery fires," Loyao stressed.
According to AAR doctrine, the forward observer is the eyes
and ears of the artillery gunnery team who are also experts in ground
navigation and map reading while the fire direction center is the brain which
computes the data for the deflection and elevation of the howitzer tubes and
the firing battery is the brawn or muscle which fires the different artillery
ammunition – high explosives, white phosphorous and illumination.
Earlier, the Nueva Ecija-based AAR announced that is now
conducting another another series of training for fire direction center (FDC)
specialists at the Artillery Training School (ATS), Fort Magsaysay
Undergoing FDC training, which started early this week, were
members of the Philippine Marines.
The FDC training will run for four weeks and the students
will have a live-fire exercise to test their speed and accuracy in computing
the required data.
Major Rosa Ma. Christina Rosete-Manuel, AAR
spokesperson, said the training aims to increase FDC specialists and ensure
artillery fire can be brought in a timely and accurate manner
Ten personnel from field artillery battalions of AAR nationwide and six from the Philippine Marines
assigned in Sultan Kudarat were sent by their respective unit commanders to
further enhance their competencies as FDC specialists.
“The survival of our endangered troops lies in our hands.
However, any inaccurate, lacking or error in the data, as members of fire
direction center, it is your responsibility to recommend to your battery
commander not to deliver the requested fire for security reasons unless sooner
corrected,” she added.
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