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
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.
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