The Forward Observer arguably has the most dangerous job in the Army. The FO is normally an artillery soldier who has been trained in the techniques of observation. He is also known as a spotter because he is the actual eyes on the ground who sees the artillery or bombs land on the target and [...]
The purpose of this post is to explain the difference in the types of artillery that the military uses. First of all there are Guns. Guns are chacterized by their longer tubes and the flat trajectory of their rounds when fired. An example of guns are those used on Navy Battleships. Guns have long tubes and [...]
I’ll bet that some of you will be surprised to find out that this term was the name of a G.I. Joe action figure. I always associated this term with the Infantry Soldier. Grunt was supposed to be an Infantry Soldier whose primary job was that of an Artillery Coordinator. That kind of threw me [...]
“Danger Close” is the term that the Field Artillery forward observer uses in his call for artillery to alert the fire direction center that the target that he wants obliterated is very close to him. In my day this was if the target was less than 600 meters away from the forward observer. This alerts the fire [...]
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