U.S. Army Field Artillery School Annual History (Rcs Chis-6 [R4])

U.S. ARMY FIELD ARTILLERY SCHOOL ANNUAL HISTORY (RCS CHIS-6 [R4]) 1 JANUARY 2010 THROUGH 31 DECEMBER 2010 BY FIELD ARTILLERY BRANCH HISTORIAN’S OFFICE FORT SILL, OKLAHOMA ii COMMANDANT’S INTRODUCTION The 2010 Annual History captures key training and leader development initiatives and combat development accomplishments of the U.S. Army Field Artillery School. While Soldiers and civilians at Fort Sill worked to ensure local security, the Field Artillery School continued to transform to meet future requirements by playing a key role in futures development and integration. Emerging weapons systems, such as the Paladin Integrated Management Program, Field Artillery munitions, such as the Guided MLRS (GMLRS) and the Excalibur Unitary, assured unparalleled precision lethal fires. The Field Artillery School‟s core mission remained training Soldiers and leaders for Field Artillery units of the operational forces. During the year, the Field Artillery School provided Field Artillery Soldiers and leaders with world-class training and instruction. The School furnished assignment-oriented training to prepare leaders and Soldiers better for their next or first assignment. Recognizing the impact of non-standard missions in the Contemporary Operational Environment on Redlegs, the Field Artillery School energetically furnished training programs to retrain individual Redlegs and units in core Field Artillery competencies. The School also engaged the Army through Warfighter Forums, developed an engagement strategy using the social media, such as Facebook, to encourage West Point and Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets to select the Field Artillery as their branch of choice and to tell the School‟s and the Field Artillery‟s story, and conducted a Cultural and Foreign Language Program to develop leaders with an understanding of foreign cultures and languages and passed an accreditation visit by the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command. In support of the Field Artillery‟s nonlethal effects mission, the Field Artillery School taught the Tactical Information Operations Warfare Course and electronic warfare courses to officers, warrant officers, and noncommissioned officers to develop Soldiers and leaders with the abilities of providing nonlethal effects. As part of the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission‟s effort to co- locate Field Artillery and Air Defense Artillery training at one location, the Field Artillery School participated in the full operational capability of the Fires Center of Excellence at Fort Sill and in growing the next generation Fires force. Around the world, Redleg Soldiers are the pride of the Nation‟s forces. At home, Field Artillery units continue to train to unprecedented levels of high-quality performance -- preparing for whatever challenges wait them. Now more than ever, the Caissons are indeed rolling along. Artillery Strong! (original signed) THOMAS S. VANDAL Brigadier General, USA Commandant iii PREFACE The 2010 Annual History for the U.S. Army Field Artillery School follows the decision-making process as closely as possible. Through interviews, email, messages, staff reports, fact sheets, correspondence, briefings, and other documentation, the Field Artillery School Historian‟s Office has recreated as closely as possible how the Field Artillery School made key decisions concerning joint issues, training, leader development, doctrine, force design, and equipment requirements. Because the Field Artillery School was involved in many diverse activities during the year, the Historian‟s Office under the direction of the School Commandant selected only those activities deemed to be the most historically significant to include in the History. Preserving historical documents forms a vital part of the historian‟s work. After they are collected from the various School organizations during the process of researching, they are filed in the historical records and documents collection in the Historian‟s Office. All documents are available for use by School staff, other U.S. governmental agencies, and private individuals upon request. Because new documents are often found after research and writing has been completed, this contemporary history is subject to revision. As new documents are discovered, interpretations and conclusions will change. Comments and suggested changes should be directed to the Historian‟s Office. In the process of researching and writing the History, the historian becomes indebted to many people for their advice and assistance. The Field Artillery School Historian‟s Office would like to thank the people who provided their technical expertise. Without their help writing the history would have been far more difficult. (original signed) BOYD L. DASTRUP, Ph.D. Field Artillery Branch Historian U.S. Army Field Artillery School iv TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE PAGE i COMMANDER’S INTRODUCTION ii PREFACE iii TABLE OF CONTENTS iv CHAPTER ONE: MISSION, ORGANIZATION, AND PERSONNEL Mission 1 Organization 1 New Commandant 1 Fires Center of Excellence Regulation 10-5 2 Social Media 3 Personnel 3 Engagement Strategy 3 Radar Maintenance Training for MOS 13R 7 Warfighter Forums 9 Fires Center of Excellence and Field Artillery School Accreditation 10 CHAPTER TWO: LEADER DEVELOPMENT: TRAINING AND EDUCATION Introduction 11 Training Guidance for Fiscal Year 2011 11 Joint and Combined Fires University 11 Gaming 15 Army Learning Concept 2015 16 Cultural and Foreign Language Program 16 Reset, Mobile Training Teams, Battery and Below and Collective Training Evaluation Teams 20 Distance Learning 24 Army National Guard Regional Training Institutes 24 Training Aids, Devices, Simulators, and Simulations 25 Joint Fires and Effects Training System 25 Call for Fire Trainer 25 Noncommissioned Officer Education System and Noncommissioned Officer Academy 26 Warrior Leader Course 28 Advanced Leader Course 29 Senior Leader Course 29 Warrant Officer Education System 30 Warrant Officer Basic Course 30 Warrant Officer Advance Course 31 Officer Education System 31 Basic Officer Leader Courses 31 Basic Officer Leader Course B 32 Field Artillery Captain‟s Career Course 32 Field Artillery Captain‟s Career Course-Reserve v Component 33 Intermediate Level Education Brigade/Division Full Spectrum Fire Support Course 34 Pre-command Course 35 Joint and Combined Integration Directorate 36 Precision Fires Course 36 Joint Fires Observer Course 37 Joint Operational Fires and Effects Course 38 The 138th Combat Training Squadron 39 Joint Fires Support Executive Steering Committee 39 Nonlethal Training 40 Electronic Warfare Courses 40 Tactical Information Operations Course 42 CHAPTER THREE: COMBAT DEVELOPMENTS: FORCE DESIGN, DOCTRINE, AND REQUIREMENTS Introduction 43 Force Design 43 Army Capstone Concept 43 Army Operating Concept 44 The United States Army Functional Concept for Fires: 2016-2028 44 Joint Air Ground Integration Cell 44 Tactical Wheeled Vehicles Studies 45 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Studies I and II 46 Precision Effects 47 Precision Fires 47 Precision Munitions 49 Cluster Munitions Assessment 50 TRADOC Capabilities Managers Fires Brigade and Brigade Combat Team-Fires 52 TRADOC Brigade Combat Team-Fires 52 Excalibur Extended-Range Guided Projectile 52 Precision Guidance Kit 58 Future Cannon Munitions Suite 60 Lightweight Towed 155-mm. Howitzer 61 M119 Towed 105-mm. Howitzer 72 Paladin Integrated Management Program 76 Bradley Fire Support Vehicle 78 Knight 79 Joint Effects Targeting System 81 Lightweight Laser Designator Rangefinder 82 Improved Position and Azimuth Determining System 84 Profiler 85 TRADOC Fires Brigade 86 Multiple-Launcher Rocket System 86 vi High Mobility Artillery Rocket System 97 Army Tactical Missile System 105 Non-Line-of-Sight Launch System 110 Firefinder Radars 118 Lightweight Countermortar Radar 119 Command, Control, and Communication Systems 120 Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System 120 Handheld Command and Control Systems 123 Fires Battle Laboratory 124 Glossary 138 Appendix One: Student Production for Fiscal Year 2010 150 Appendix Two: Key USAFAS Personnel 151 Appendix Three: Field Artillery School Commandants 152 Appendix Four: Chiefs of Field Artillery 154 Appendix Five: Assistant Commandants 156 Appendix Six: Command Sergeant Majors of NCOA 158 Appendix Seven: USAFCOEFS Organization Chart 159 Appendix Eight: Field Artillery Commandant‟s Office Chart 160 Appendix Nine: List of Documents 161 Index of Names: 167 CHAPTER ONE MISSION, ORGANIZATION, AND PERSONNEL MISSION Influenced by the new field artillery technology introduced after the Spanish- American War of 1898, the development of indirect fire, and the lack of adequately trained Field Artillerymen, the War Department opened the School of Fire for Field Artillery at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, on 15 September 1911. While War Department, General Orders No. 72 of 3 June 1911 tasked the school to furnish practical and theoretical field artillery training to lieutenants, captains, field grade officers, militia officers, and noncommissioned officers, War Department, General Orders No. 73 of 5 June 1911 integrated the school into a sequential and progressive educational system for officers.1 In 2010 the U.S. Army Field Artillery School (USAFAS), the U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery School (USAADAS), the Noncommissioned Officer Academy (NCOA), and the 434th Field Artillery Brigade, composed the training mission of the U.S. Army Fires Center of Excellence (FCoE). During the year, the Field Artillery School trained the field artillery forces of the United States

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