How does the Canadian Artillery work? BEING A GUNNER

[Music] welcome back everyone it's me Matt I hope you have an 8 absolutely fantastic day thanks for joining me on today's video now I have been in the artillery for about two years now as many of you know I'm the British Army veteran tank mechanic at heart I've always loved tanks but I was transitioning to the Canadian Armed Forces I am a very proud gunner to this day recently promoted to Bombardier and I'm really really passionate about the artillery my grandfather served in the Royal Artillery in World War two operating anti-aircraft weapons and to me it's true too hard to say that I have a family tied to the artillery but never really acted upon that when joining the British army however today I want to talk a little bit about how the artillery in Canada works now there was a fantastic made by our brothers in the West 3:9 Brigade in social media from the Canadian Forces exactly breaking down the artillery operation and on which the guns work the you know all the different disciplines that we have within the artillery work and I'd like to break it down a little bit more raw when I say raw you know really deep dive into exactly what is happening the video is about seven minutes long they did a fantastic job of it honestly the footage is crisp it's beautiful whoever is the cinematographer or the person who produced this video seriously hats off to you you've represented my regiment and and the regiment of that's been showcased in this video very very well and it's nice to see that the Canadian Forces is really looking into bringing the troops to the forefront of social media more because I think a lot of people are quite you know oblivious to how things like this work they see the guns firing and they don't realize that there's a lot more to it than just you know rounds being sent downrange now the individual who's you know kind of narrating this video and hosting it also does a fantastic job he started on the gun line he says as a gunner work through the ranks and now second leftenant I must have made a little disheartening to know that I wasn't able to take part in something like this but you know they were in a beautiful setting they're in States the perfect area for gunnery you can see the rounds landing here nice open flat terrain opiez can see everything that's going on it's a really nice environment I would love to fire on a range like that but we have one here in Alberta which we're part of for one Brigade which is my brigade we have Suffield which a British Army training unit attached to it but primarily CFP Suffield is a huge open spammed landmass where we get to fire all sorts of projectiles all over the place so as much as they get to have fun open train in this United States environment we get to have a lot of fun here in Alberta too so what I want to do is go over the video and kind of break down the kind of things he's going over and give you a little bit more information from an actual first-hand perspective they don't have enough time to really deep dive into the more heavy informational settings of some of the disciplines he's going into but for those of you who are aspiring to be Gunners or maybe already our Gunners I just want to you know listen to what I'm have to say about artillery then here's the place to be because you're gonna learn a lot about you know what is actually happening what they're doing you're seeing a broad overview of exactly what they're doing but again hats off to the kanay armed forces for producing this video it just it looks incredible I would love to have some time and resources to make my own video on the artillery more first-hand you know instead of me just sitting at my computer right now talking about it but maybe in the future we'll have something coming up I don't know but let's get into this video then and start breaking it down a little deeper so we can see exactly how the artillery works for Canada yeah instead of talking about [Music] my name is second lieutenant Lloyd with a 15th Field Artillery Regiment today I'm going to take you behind the scenes I'm currently at the Yakima training center in Washington my regiment is out here for the weekend firing their guns I've been in the artillery for seven years I started off as a gunner on the front line worked my way up seen every part of the artillery I want to say how it all comes together first we need to look at how the guns are sited these artillery reconnaissance technicians they're the first ones on the ground they're the ones actually figured out where the guns are going to be placed this is done by using sophisticated military survey equipment when the guns arrive the raku technicians will work with each individual gun to figure out exactly which artillery pieces weigh why are we three miles off so let's start off with recce tech so ready Tech is a discipline or subdivision trade-off group inside the artillery that are there to do exactly what he just said so to know exactly where we need to fire as an artillery position or battery we need to know exactly where we are and where we are in relation to the ground and the land that we're about to fire upon recce Tex and I'm not a subject-matter expert as being a wreck exec because I'm not one and personally it's not the route I want to go in the artillery definitely not my style but as a recce tech you're basically plotting the position of which you're firing from for the guns to relate to so almost sort of a benchmark point a datum on which you can refer to so when the guns come into sight they know exactly where they need to be pointing the directions they need to be pointing the bearings and the angles I'm not going to get into fire discipline and into the technicalities of how this all works because that would be a very long video but recce Tech in terms of if it's something you want to be if you're interested in it is definitely a more technical based trade in the artillery as you can tell by the trade group recce Tech you are a technician which therefore means you would go on a specialist course to become this particular trade group inside the artillery and you need to be pretty good at some math you need to know you know basic angles you need to understand how optics work there's a little bit more to it than other different trade groups within the artillery I have a lot of people who went through the course thoroughly enjoyed it I have a lot of people in our battery that thoroughly enjoy being ready techs they enjoy being the first on the ground getting ahead of the battery setting in and kind of laying in the ground and making sure the gun position is able to fire quickly and effectively so if it's something you're interested it definitely asked me some questions I can get you some information I'd love to try and you know give you resources to allow you to look into what you want to be you know being a gunner is definitely the most exciting job I would say in the in the army for me and that's just my personal opinion and Rocky Tech really just broadens up the whole sort of more basically technological side of things you have some pretty important equipment that you'd be using to try and get those guns laid in position and if you have that kind of mindset it's definitely the way to go another thing you need to think about with the recce tech side of things is you are recce remember reconnaissance technician so as a reconnaissance technician you need to be aware that you are going to be ahead of the battle group and in some cases in a dangerous environment you're going to be on your own deployed as a small team setting up this optic and setting up this equipment to allow you to prepare for the gun line that being said you're in a high hostile environment and could potentially be in engagements if you encounter the enemy prior to setting up this position so you know as a recce tech you're going to be a little bit more invested into the infantry style of tactics you're gonna have to be proficient at the skills and drills that you would not normally as much use on the gun line such as you know session attacks individual foreign maneuver all these sort of things that can defend yourself from an engagement if you were to get there your Calliphora concealment your tactics on which moving into a position all these sort of things that you need to think about - it's not all about this math and you know laying in optics and laying insights you need to be good at being a soldier first knowing how to operate in a tactical environment and it can be quite appealing to a lot of people they like that sort of environment where you know you're a little bit ahead of the battle group you're gonna sort of the tip of the spear almost for the for the artillery and that's definitely a way that you can think about it it's not always this sort of the boring side that people think when they look at guys plotting the land like Lane land surveillance which is really in some regard kind of what you're doing so if this is something you're interested knowing definitely ask some questions to me and I'll try my investigate the information so there is a certain process and the way in which a gun battery sets up and again I'm not gonna go too heavy into that right now but one thing I do want to point out that this video just not depict very well at all I'd say is the sense of urgency that it happens within the artillery there's a couple of points there referent later on in the video but the key to being in the artillery is getting your job done at the utmost level of accuracy and the highest level of speed the reason for this is that you are an artillery position you are extremely exposed let's just look at this picture right now look at the hillside in the distance it doesn't take much for an infantry platoon a tank platoon which is the artillery's worst enemy to pop over that hillside as you can see the Gunners right now setting up their gun line so delaying in the guns preparing to get the angles ready for you know laying inciting you know the guns and recording their CFA all that sort of stuff or Center of Arc as I said I'm not going to go into the technicalities too much here but the guys are fairly lazy fair in this video and that's okay they're in training environments sometimes we take things a little slower especially if we're trying to refresh ourselves or get into the you know the swing of things again but this is all done in a realistic setting especially when you're going through sort of dp1 or you're in your introduction to the artillery training at mac-10 at the fastest speed possible because you need to be able to get these guns into action provide fire support as quickly as possible and as accurately as possible so doing all this stuff as fast as possible is is important but if you can't do it properly at that speed then you're completely redundant to firing of the guns because you're gonna cause risk to either not completing your mission or your fire mission which is providing support to the all arms battle group or you could potentially kill your own guys which is the worst fear of any gunner in the world so just remember that if you are willing to join the artillery that it's not as sort of chilled and laid-back that you're looking at right now trust me the people that are in this picture right now that you see if in a high-tempo realistic environment you're gonna be sweating you're gonna be extremely tired because moving this amount of Steel off a truck like that and the amount of equipment that needs to come off at the same time takes a lot of work seven people to do and you think but madness seven people that's a lot of people to move all this stuff agreed but everybody has their own specific job and purpose and there is a lot to do when setting up these guns so just something to consider that you really do need to be aware that it is a high faced very fast very physically demanding job which you know in certain parts of this video you're not quite seeing so something to be aware of once the guns are ready it's up to the observation post to call in the targets so right now we're on our way to the observation post if you didn't know most the time soldiers actually shooting the artillery can't actually see where the rounds are landing these forward observers they're the ones that actually see the rounds land they're the ones that actually guide the rounds onto the target you're annoyed right now we're several kilometres away from the gun line on an isolated hilltop we're much further to the front and you can see out the area that they're calling in rounds just ahead you'll see the bomb is blowing up from here we can see the enemy identify where the target actually it after the guns fire the forward observers will literally see the shots land so here we are the second discipline that he talks about during this video in the artillery which is the forward observer some of you like to call them Foose but at the end of the day these are people that are laying in the guns for where they need to shoot they are providing the information to the battery to know exactly what they want to shoot where they're gonna shoot it how long they're gonna shoot it for what they want to shoot it with et cetera et cetera they have a lot to decipher there is a lot of tactical involvement here so you may if you are part of a food party or forward observation party be attached to an infantry platoon 8th armored platoon a combat armed of some kind that request or require artillery support so you have to have some social interaction to hear and the skills to work with other people other trades because it's important they are the ones at the end of the day normally requesting for artillery and you need to be able to interact with those people really effectively another part that appeals to people for the opie or the observation post with the forward observation party is that again you are isolated you're in your own little team small team that is ahead of the battle group ahead of the battery and being able to observe the enemy physically seeing rounds land on target it's pretty cool it sends the hairs on the back of your neck going up I can tell you that for sure in Afghanistan I'm watching rounds land on target it's pretty cool I was obviously not an artillery gonna back then but we did request fire support whether it be from the air or from the Gunners on the ground and seeing rounds land where you ask them to land is is pretty cool and reinforces the fact that you're not alone and you've got people looking after you so you being a part of that support and knowing that you're providing that fire support it's pretty cool and pretty rewarding as you can see some of these troops have camouflage and concealment paint on their faces you have to remember similar to the recce tech that you are very much in the way of potential enemy threat if you're watching the enemy there's more than no doubt that you're going to be able to be seen potentially by them too so if you're gonna be part of that you know that discipline in that department you're gonna need to know how to really effectively soldier you we're not going to be thrown into an observation post as a young troop you will have to go do a specialist course so again these are things that are extra disciplines to being a standard gunner that you do from your basic course on dp1 so there are additional disciplines and skill sets that you're going to learn if you go on specific courses such as OPD member so if you want to be part of the observation post once again ask some questions to me I'll be more than happy to give you some information but if you want to be the one that that's passing on that data to the command post and watching the round splash on target then this is definitely the place you want to be hold the data here is sent back to the command post for the radio the command post is literally the brain of the operation so the command post then this is where really I guess the technical data that's coming in from all different directions is processed validated confirmed that it is true and accurate to prepare to be sent to the gun lines as what's called a fire mission so a fire mission is the order that's given to the gun line to prepare them to actually engage targets and put projectiles downrange now if you wish to be a part of command post once again you're gonna have to go on your CP to tech course or CP technician command post technician course which is a little bit more involved once again with obviously data and the kind of information that you need to decipher from various different avenues that's coming from a lot of math involved here folks it is a little bit more brain power than it is brawn power definitely not where I really see myself it's not my passion it's not the core of what I want to be but if you like to look at you know mathematical equations you like to you know take on Lots amounts of information you like working with radios because you couldn't be working with them a lot and this is the really the place for you and again it's something that you can broaden your horizons with you don't always have to stick in one particular area or Avenue of the artillery you have some options available to you so if you want to be in the command post which is basically going to be a small vehicle with a box on the back of it you're gonna climb in the back of there there's gonna be a ton of tables information you know different types of mathematical equations computers that's gonna allow you to prepare those five missions for the gun line and get rounds on target I know a lot of people that thoroughly enjoy the command post I will definitely attest the fact that you're a little bit more of a guchi environment as we call it which means you get to have a nice warm area for the most part being in the back of the vehicle if it's pouring down with rain and snow you are gonna be in the back of the vehicle or inside of a tent because you can't get your maps computers etc wet so it's nice to have that kind of comfort zone a little bit more but you're still exposed you still have to do other things on the command post that aren't it's fun to do setting up you know you cam net setting up your radio antennas setting up all the other bits and pieces you need to operate the command post effectively you're also gonna be involved with officers and high-ranking officials so if you don't have that ability to work well with others and you're not a sociable person also something you need to consider you're going to be in the command post for long periods of time sometimes with people who are very high ranked from you you could be in there as a young Bombardier working alongside a major or even higher potentially and that's something you got to be aware of I know of people who have gone into roles like this really struggle because they don't feel comfortable talking to their superiors and you need to be because at the end of the day you have to have that working relationship with the command post team together sometimes high senior officials or ranking officials in the command post make mistakes we're humans we make mistakes and you need to be the one that has the guts and the bronze say excuse me sir don't think that date is correct can you verify that what you just told me is correct and I'm like oh yeah fair point yeah I was totally off by like 10 mils or whatever else right that's bad data we call it bad data and you need to be able to challenge that because it's your job to and if you don't feel comfortably like he's but be he's my boss he's a major he's gonna give me a hard time he's gonna why did well who do you think you're talking to you know gonna Bombardier that's not how it is so if you do have that fear that's something you're gonna want to get out of your system pretty quickly before you join into the discipline of the command post the command post will give out orders for ammunition amount of shells and direction after that it's up to each gun crew to do the shooting all right we gonna make up for lost time whoo let's get to the gun line I'm a right thing I can just cross this a little bit I'm not entirely sure what I was all about but they're guys laughs is it's like nails on a chalkboard fairplay though at least he's having some fun with it with the troops in the vehicle the rounds on the target as fast as you can and getting out the best way to stay safe when you have any resolutions back every member of the gun group needs to be in the absence now no word of a lie we're already about 20 minutes of this video so we're pushing it pretty hard here I'm getting towards the juicy part which I could literally talk about all day because it's what I do it's what I'm passionate about it's what I love being on the guns so we could talk about this literally all day there's so much to discuss here but some of the key points that I want to focus on is let's start off with the ammunition so when you're on the gun line of course the key to absolutely doing what we need to do and the weapon of the artillery is the projectile that we're firing the projectile is what you're seeing right now he is about to load a high explosive 105 millimeter projectile with a fuse attached the fuses which basically is detonating the projectile at the specific requirement that we want it to do and make it function as to when and what we want it to do there's a little bit of you know math involved here sometimes there's a little bit of coordination you have to have with other people to ensure that all this stuff lines up accurately there are certain types of ammunition that require specialist kinds of attachments to them if you eventually go into the 155 155 millimeter houses the M triple sevens there's more technology involved you have specialist guns that you attach to the fuse and program the fuses there's a lot going on just with the ammunition we haven't even got to the gun yet there's so much going on that you have to focus on the big part of being under in the artillery and the first things you learn of being part of a gun it is fire discipline everything has a strict process rules and I mean it like it's embedded in your bloodstream to the point of which you have to remember everything to a tee there is no ifs there's no buts there's no gray areas you will do everything exactly as you have been taught you know as an infantryman there's a lot of flexibility and fluidity to the way in which you operate if you want to take a hill you take a hill you go around the hill you go around the hill you're left right up down you know crawl in run in bayonet charge lots of different options in the artillery it's not really quite like that we have a strict process that you have to adhere to and if you don't you're going to get yourself other people killed or potentially not engage the people you do want to kill so just starting with the ammunition you have a lot to think about but don't let it to tell you this is where you're actually going to be putting your hands on raw pieces of equipment that is going to potentially kill someone that is the mission of the artillery is to engage the enemy and destroy them with fire support so you know when we talk about being a gunner and you know putting rounds downrange there's a lot more to it than just pulling the lanyard or the trigger of the gun and I just want to reinforce that because once again in this video it talks a little about you know you know everybody's doing their own thing but there is a strict process and if you can't adhere to that the artillery is definitely not for you by for a fact when the guns are all accurate on the target and it's time for them to unleash the rest of the rounds that have dedicated to that spot fire for effect a method of firing in the artillery that is basically exactly what you want as a gunner to hear across the radio when you hear fire for effect you know it's go time you need to get those rounds through that barrel and onto target as quickly as humanly possible and as accurately as possible it is so much fun there's nothing that makes the blood pump through my veins better than hearing fire mission battery and then fire for effect those two things that you hear just get you so riled up and it's I can't explain it it's really hard to explain until you expose this kind of environment and the teamwork the camaraderie and the passion for being a gunner and you hear those things on the net and you know what your job is and everything works like clockwork it is the most rewarding and satisfying feeling I've ever had you know as a tank mechanic it was rewarding repairing tanks and you know providing that customer support basically like a service technician even on the front line when you know you've got a tank that's run over an idee blown his tracks off you have to get him back on the road quickly so we can you know do his mission it's the same for your artillery though but in in my basis when I pull that lanyard or where I'm punching rounds in that breach or when I'm laying in the gun it just really hits me and maybe that's a bit weird some of you like this guy's a freak but that's okay I will stand to that I'll stand my ground and say that is the most rewarding and satisfying feeling being part of that gun line being part of that team dashing around putting rounds downrange accurately on target being the first on the gun lines set up all these things that just reinforce exactly why being a gunner is so amazing and so much fun because the end of the day we don't just do this because we want a job and he's doing it for just that then you know I don't know maybe have your own reasoning but for me if I don't get that satisfaction of doing the job and having that purpose but when you get far for effect and you're like okay now this is serious now we've actually located the target we've honed in our rounds to actually hit that point we need to continue firing as quickly as we can to destroy and neutralize the enemy as much as possible so you know when you become a gunner if any of you are wishing to become a gunner you'll know exactly what I'm talking about the day you hear across that on the net fire for effect love that sound smell that comes up afterwards still that cordite [Music] so it's day 2 today it's gonna be a little bit different I'm doing a lot of indirect firing yesterday but now pretty soon the guns are gonna start moving I'm gonna start packing up we're gonna head over to start doing some direct action shooting bit more intense so here we have the home of the artillery almost the mobile home of the artillery the MS vs this is an artillery version of the MS vs which is basically a very large truck that has a cab attached extended cab attached to the middle of it to allow the artillery Gunners to operate with inside of it quickly and effectively to get out now this is really where you're going to be living for the majority of your time when out in the field as a gunner unless you're on some of the other disciplines as I mentioned the observation post or recce tech man post you'll be on your own specific smaller vehicles but as are gonna roar on the gun line this is where you're gonna be living folks this is what you're gonna be getting everything off of really nice to have of course would not like the infantry that you know carry everything in and out of battle we do have the advantage of having the truck that doesn't make something easier though it sometimes can be just as hard there's a lot of heavy equipment coming on and off of this truck as simple as a cam net cam nets to cover a gun position a huge the massive the heavy the cumbersome they're a pain in the ass but they are you know part of what you need to do and all that equipment you have on the back there is very stringent upon you know double-checking everything making sure you've got everything there's many times I've come off the gun line and you know someone in another vehicles and like oh we forgot this and it's happened on our vehicle too we all make mistakes but this is where you're gonna live it's great bit of kit works very very well the loadout on the back is something to be desired it's a little strange in which the configuration of the you know the storage in the back of the MSBs is made it was actually designed by a chef which is a little different but for us as the artillery it works very effectively so get used to being you know working off the back of a truck almost you can see again though my relation to being a little lazy a fair and taking it easy these Gunners are obviously in a training environment they've been taught to kind of take a little bit more easy but in a real setting when you're breaking down a gun line everything is as fast as possible you are gonna be burning calories like crazy you're going to be tired you're going to be exhausted and then once you closed everything up and you're in the back of the truck you can kind of rest for a couple of minutes before you get to the next position where you have to reverse it and do everything again get everything out it is super high fast-paced you're gonna be working hard so don't think in the artillery I can be lazy because I'm just gonna be pulling the lanyard it's just as hard as any other physical activity you do in the army if not more because the infantry give us a hard time you guys are lazy you have your trucks and all that good stuff but you put an inhuman in a deploying of the gun position for a few days doing you know setting up and tearing down the gun line I guarantee you they're gonna take a second opinion on that so you need to keep your fitness off you want to be a gunner it's not one of those jobs that just because you're working off the back of that truck you get to laze around we're just taken out in the gun position now before we move to the next one each gun crew will need to pack away stores and equipment still being ready to fire until the very last moment so as he said the gun line still needs to fire up until the very last moment the last thing that will be packed away is obviously the gun when you're tearing down your position it's not let's just get the gun torn down and we don't need to fire any more anything can happen there's been instances where I'm carrying the gun down and you know all of a sudden it's like stop what you're doing fire mission battery get the ammunition back off get the gun ready to fire everything should still be in place the guns laid in everything recorded so that you can continue on with the mission just because you're about to go doesn't mean that you're still not effectively able to fire so you know a lot of people think that when you're starting to tear things down you can kind of get relaxed and cool down if anything it's the most intensive point of you know being a gunner because you're in limbo you're either packin half of your stuff that you need to do away or you're fully ready to go it's that middle ground of okay where are we out here what's about to happen it's a little scary because you don't want to have to you know interrupt your process to put rounds downrange but we have to move and that's how we work in the artillery we shoot and scoot we don't stay in a position for too long we have to relocate because eventually the enemy will find that position and return fire which is why that sense of urgency is so important so you know when you are tearing down the gun you're gonna leave that gun on position to the very last moment and then you will pull away and take it away with you to the next position so these troops are doing all non-essential stores primarily then ammunition and then if they're given the cease firing they're going to get their gun loaded onto the back of the truck and as I said again it is a lot of hard work but it's so much fun once you get the clock work at the team tearing and setting up down properly it's just incredibly rewarding cease fire cease firing is given that's what all the guns start packing up the race begins to see which gun position can get out of the gutter area fast enough so they can be the first ones onto the next platform so you see this gentleman in the top left here does he look like someone who's being lazy absolutely not and again reinforces the fact that this is a very physically demanding job it's also a job that encompasses a lot of safety you need to be so freaking careful when you're operating heavy pieces of equipment and metal like this you can lose a finger a hand an arm extremely quickly if you don't respect this equipment because as you can see these troops are working hard to get this gun up just rotating things around and lock it in place with pins locks caches closing things up of high speed because everything is done so fast if you're not doing it effectively and say your fitness isn't very high and you're just exhausted after the first five minutes of starting to break down in composition your judgment and your you know decision-making process may not be of effective because you're too busy breathing out yet but because you're so tired right so get your fitness up folks I can't reinforce it enough the guts Hillary is extremely extremely demanding physical position in the army and I want to make sure that you're not going to go in there thinking that you're just gonna get an easy ride because it's not Hey [Applause] you see a good job hang on this is what direct action is like when the guns are lined up their barrels are pretty much level to the ground and they're trying to shoot to hit targets just right over there that was an enemy charging over the hill getting the barrels level and firing them accurately is the best way for the artillery men to stay safe so this is one of the more fun sides and then the enjoyable sides of being a gunner in actually firing of the gun open action sniping of the gun actually being able to direct fire onto targets oh wow is it a lot of fun you know as in direct fire when were firing on bearings you're not normally going to see the projectiles hitting on target that's gonna be the observation posts primary location they're gonna see those rounds impacting but when you're doing open action when you're doing sniping the guns things like that you actually are able to see the rounds land on position that you're firing out you can see in the distance in this picture they've got some targets up looks like some fake tank wooden targets it is really rewarding when you're actually working as a crew firing the gun and seeing those projectiles hit on target that's impressive it's just also a bit of a competitive balance as well because when you're doing these open actions you're seeing targets that are in the distance everyone's watching right everyone on the entire gun line is watching you as a gun position know if you're gonna hit that target or not it takes a lot of skill takes a lot of practice however there is a very simplistic methodology to actually engage targets in this kind of configuration of direct fire we also have our tank optic that we can sometimes use very rarely I've never really used it in firing I would like to it'd be a lot of fun but you know watching rounds explode and hit those but you know those potential targets it's just it's incredible and everybody has a bit of sort of general banter I guess you know competition with you each gun position to see who's gonna hit round on target first because it is a little bit of a skill as I said if you're gonna miss everyone gives you a bit of a cheer a bit of a room so it's fun I think it has a lot of a lot of reward to it with that sense but it's also very serious right this is very very risky kind of operation because you are so close to the enemy that they can see you and has a gun position you don't get to drive away okay you're firing until the mission is done if you get engaged you're getting shot at you will continue putting rounds through that gun no matter what if you're losing people beside you people are getting engaged you will keep firing the gun that is part of what we do we don't just abandon the gun we'll keep going until the very last man and then it's important that you know that because our guns are our colors we don't have flags in the artillery that we use as our battle honors our battle colors our colors are the gun and we respect the gun wholeheartedly so we will never abandon our gun and this is the kind of scenario where it kind of brings that embodiment of being a gun it right this is my gun you're not coming to take it I'm gonna put some rounds down on you you can put some of me and I'm gonna keep fighting so when you do these kind of fire missions with direct impact you know fire it's just yeah it gets this the Bakke neck standing up that's for sure maybe you can see the smoke in the background from where they're shooting this competition is putting them up shooting rounds really fast competing against each other for who can hit that target first [Music] so that's the sound of them pulling the lanyard firing the round off that being they're the ones that pull the trigger or as the one who pulled the trigger the forward observer calling it in over the radio or is it the command post sending the orders out to the guns to fire I'm not too sure maybe that's too philosophical I actually really enjoyed this scene because he raises some pretty valid points and something I've never truly thought of who is it that is actually engaging and and firing the trigger from the gun yes when we pull the lanyard we're firing the trigger and actually sending the weapon in the artillery the projectile downrange but the process before then could just as much be indicated as pulling of the trigger when the opie is asking to fire at that target the key is termed and the engine has started back at the batteries everything's starting to move and it's you know it can be interrupted you can turn the key off of the ignition again you know pause the process of pulling of that trigger but the same applies at the command post right at the command post they are preparing to send data to the guns is that also in some respect pulling of the trigger and but finally the person on the gun position right giving their direction once sent from the command post to fire from the number one telling his number two to pull the line it is that pulling of the trigger or is it finally the number two actually pulling the lanyard which is the string or the rope that we attached to the trigger of the actual artillery piece the howitzer that we're pulling we don't have a trigger like we do on a rifle with a pistol grip and a trigger our trigger is the lanyard and that we pull on the gun so at that point there's no real turning back once you've pulled that lanyard the projectile will fly and it will one way or another hit the target or not hit the target so it's just an interesting philosophy and I like the way you kind of raised it cuz it does put a little bit of question in your head is that who is actually the one destroying the enemy you know at the end of the day though it's every one the battery works together we're a family the whole process together as one big engine working you know unanimously to make sure the targets destroyed in my eyes everyone pulls the trigger there's so many different parts in this process of the artillery everyone has that part everyone's involved in some way [Music] so there you have it everyone a bit of a long-winded video today I apologize we're almost at 40 minutes it's a long video for you to take on but for those of you are seriously passionate about the arts area I hope you took something away from today's video once again thank you to second lieutenant Lloyd here and the 15th field Regiment and 3:9 Brigade and the Canadian Forces for providing this video I think it's a fantastic way to promote what I'm passionate about and what the regiment is passionate about being a gunner and doing what we need to do as part of the alarm's battle really really cool to see the footage was incredible the way in which they portrayed this you know call function as an artillery unit really really well done I hope you took a little bit away from what I was telling you to I could really just talk about this for hours and hours on end and you know maybe one day I'll do a livestream specifically relatable to the artillery and how you know things work and you can ask me questions and I'll try my best to answer them but I just wanted to give a little bit more of a roar feel of you know as a gunner what you can expect and things that you can involve yourself with you know from a high level you do have a lot of different options to you if you want to be a part of the regiment you know whether it be a technical side of things the Brawn of the gun line you know the physical side getting involved in just putting projectiles in that breach sending them downrange lots of different options for you so if you are interested in join the artillery or the Canadian Forces in general please please reach out to a recruiter you can speak to me you can speak to the social media network that's now really doing well on Facebook and all sorts of different avenues Twitter and things like that I really would encourage you to do so because I would love to you to be part of my family my extended family here in the Canadian Forces and I'm proud of what I do I'm passionate about what I do and I would love to have that reciprocated upon those who have any interested doing it also so thank you for joining me again today it really does mean a lot I hope you all have a wonderful day those who are aspiring to join good luck to you those who are already in and part of the Canadian Forces hats off to you all thank you for your service I will see you on the next video in the future if you want to be notified of any upcoming videos from my channel please please I would encourage you to click that little Bell button by the subscribe button so you can be notified check the description box below for my other social media and links there including Facebook my patreon if you wish to donate or support towards my channel I would really appreciate it and thank you to everyone who has been doing so I also have my discord channel on there so you hear on some one-on-one chats then you can do that also I'll catch you around again folks all the best and you be [Applause] [Music]

Channel: Matsimus

Views: 28,821

Rating: 4.9401937 out of 5

Keywords: artillery, gunner, canada, howitzer, cannon, army, canadian, soldier, C3 howitzer, M777, CAF, matsimus, military, armed forces, canadian armed forces, military videos, military training, canadian military, 39 brigade, artillery regiment, field artillery, Artillery Battery, Artillery Battery Barrage

Id: AxcyMJCzTXU

Length: 41min 5sec (2465 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 06 2020