U.S. Army Field Artillery Officer

the field artillery is nearly as old as the army itself established on November 17 1775 the king of battle is a critical combat arm and the only one in continuous service since the American Revolution throughout its history the field artillery has successfully used both direct and indirect fires in combat against America's adversaries today's Field Artillery is a highly technical multifaceted branch that destroys neutralizes and suppresses battlefield adversaries by integrating cannon rocket and missile systems into combined arms operations supporting all army formations with lethal and non-lethal fires career artillery officers can expect a variety of operational and institutional assignments ranging from the tactical to strategic levels junior officers spend most of their time in the Army's operating force honing their small unit leadership and staff expertise this is an invaluable training and educational experience that helps them to understand the larger army that they serve as they approach mid-career artillery officers are afforded opportunities to pursue graduate education and develop expertise suiting them for leadership in either operating force or generating force assignments training and leading soldiers across the army as well as collaborating and training with America's allies our Tillery officers possess a special blend of skills knowledge and behaviors their unique talents help them to succeed in any mission mentally tough artillery officer is excelled in stressful situations their Grace and perseverance under pressure allow them to meet any challenge no matter how complex or demanding be mentally toughen in the phil artillery as is it is a paramount skill if it's in the middle of a fire mission if it's in the middle of an actual firefight being able to be mentally tough and be that cool calm and collected leader is able to make the right decision not just a decision out of pace you're responsible for that round going downrange that round that travels twenty to thirty kilometers to the air and hits a target exactly right on it is a great fit tough gritty and tenacious artillery officers thrive under a broad spectrum of physically demanding conditions their complete approach to fitness ensures they can accomplish the mission in any operating environment as a field artillery man if you are attached to an infantry battalion used to have to be as mentally tough and as physically fit as the infantryman on the ground you are out there alone with your team and you have to be able to you know ruck up mountains they dig your positions nowhere else are you slinging around ninety to one hundred pound artillery shells if we can't keep up with the force that we're supporting them we are ineffective in our support interdisciplinary our Tillery officers routinely integrate expert knowledge from multiple disciplines to develop a more complete perspective that enables them to solve complex problems there is not a branch in the army that requires an officer to be as interdisciplinary as the field artillery you have to coordinate and integrate with many other types of units and not just army units but aviation units from the Air Force or the Navy or the Marine Corps as well there has to be a clear understanding of the big picture and how all the assets can integrate with each other to support the ground plan process disciplined the lethal nature of the field artilleries mission demands that artillery officers diligently adhere to procedures designed to ensure accuracy effectiveness and safety artillery officers must be processed discipline for four the most important reason you must be accurate and on-time all the time no excuse you realize that all these checks are needed this process is needed in order for you to hit the target and be efficient I like being the guy that's responsible for taking all the boxes to make sure that we are green and we're ready to fire and we're going to be accurate the fail Artillery more than any other branch I've found on this very procedure very procedural focus multi tasker constantly faced with simultaneous challengers artillery officers effectively prioritize and respond to multiple demands multitasking is one of the greatest attributes of a filler teller officer and our turbine has to manage fires you have to manage air assets they have to talk on the radio at the same time as advising their commander I had multiple hand mics up to my ears and I'm listening to different nets and different requests for fire or different pieces of information coming over the radio they have to really be in multiple places at the same time and you have to be able to process multiple things simultaneously or near simultaneously and prioritize what is the most important for the ground commander at that time especially intelligent adept at three-dimensional thinking artillery officers rapidly assimilate information from all quarters in planning and executing missions they excel at visualizing the entire battle space spatial intelligences is sort of the back of almost everything we do you're operating on a battlefield your battle space is depth in depth it's got a width to it it's got height to it and you are controlling a lot of things happening within that battle space probably some of the most important thing that the field artillery men brings to the fight is that ability to take in the entire picture of the battlefield I want to squirt West Point I graduated from Rutgers University the United States Military Academy University of North Dakota I majored in geology and environmental sciences human regional geography international relations Chemical Engineering this is management American politics I find that this multitude of jobs is really what keeps you always interesting and you always have to learn you go to light units you go to heavy units go to Stryker units you're going to work with multiple different weapon systems I started off as a fire support officer talked about fire support officer probably one of the hardest jobs in our army when I was a lieutenant I served as a company fire support officer in an infantry battalion and as a captain I served as a squadron fire support officer in a cavalry battalion both in a heavy and light division the biggest thing that separates us from the other branches is we are a true integrator and we work across and with every single other branch if you really want to experience the the width and breadth of the army and combat arms in particular the Field Artillery is a good way to go in a single word I think artillery is different from every other branch because of our precision our job really is to provide indirect fires to allow everyone else to do their mission for me out of all the maneuver mission all the maneuver missions the maneuvered positions I've held providing fire support providing direct support artillery for our infantry has been the most rewarding the fuel artillery is is a team so we want people that are smart and motivated and ready to be a member of a team and ready to lead that team the Brotherhood in the artillery community is incredibly incredibly strong and and I'm just lucky to be part of it I think it's amazing when a cannon fires and when rounds go downrange being in the field behind my guns lined up in battery to me that's one of the reasons why I stayed artillery is because of the power and sort of the the might that an artillery battery or an Artillery Battalion brings to brings to the fight I want to do that I want to be the guy responsible for that that's the king of battle to fill artillery you

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Published: Mon Feb 02 2015