Wednesday, June 3, 2015

AAR conducting 5th Field Artillery Howitzer Challenge

From the Philippine News Agency (Jun 3): AAR conducting 5th Field Artillery Howitzer Challenge

With the Army Artillery Regiment poised to celebrate its 5th founding anniversary on June 16, the AAR announced that it will be conducting its 5th Field Artillery Howitzer Challenge in Fort Magsaysay, Nueva Ecija.

The event, which was formally launched on May 26 this year, will run for two-weeks.

It is part of the AAR's foundation celebrations.

It is participated by different artillery units nationwide with a total of nine howitzer sections, officer-led, randomly selected with 10 personnel each.

The teams are expected to undergo the following challenges:

The Disaster Rescue and Retrieval Operations which will test the preparedness of the personnel in times of calamities. They will be given scenarios in order to execute water and land emergency rescue transfer and basic life support.

The Howitzer Challenge which will determine the technical proficiency of the section leaders and its members in the performance of their duties and to assess their collective competency and cohesiveness as members of the howitzer section through the weapons assembly and disassembly, land navigation, signal/radio communications, platoon run, endurance firing and the gunnery drill using indirect fire weapons (60mm mortar and 105mm howitzer cannon).

Brig. Gen. Leandro A. Loyao III, AAR commander said the howitzer section is the smallest unit of the artillery and they are called “the cutting edge” since they are the ones who are supporting the ground troops in the frontlines in order to accomplish the mission.

Loyao added that the result in this year’s challenge will also determine the possible ranking of the carrying units in their Performance-Base-Bonus (PBB).

“As a highly technical unit, I want that this competition will be taken seriously that is why I included the competition result as one of the criteria for the PBB,” he added.

“Speed and accuracy are among which we wanted to emphasize here. Since we can’t afford to lose lives in the real battle due to inaccuracies, the teams can only win if they have trained and prepared so well for this,” Loyao stressed.

The winning unit contingent in this year’s challenge will be recognized on June 16.

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=1&sid=&nid=1&rid=768183

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