Us Army Field Artillery School Annual History
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U.S. ARMY FIELD ARTILLERY SCHOOL ANNUAL HISTORY (RCS CHIS-6 [R4]) 1 JANUARY 2013 THROUGH 31 DECEMBER 2013 BY FIELD ARTILLERY BRANCH HISTORIAN’S OFFICE FORT SILL, OKLAHOMA ii COMMANDANT’S INTRODUCTION The 2013 Annual History captures key training and leader development initiatives and combat development accomplishments of the U.S. Army Field Artillery School. During the year, the Field Artillery School continued to meet future requirements by playing a key role in futures development and integration. Emerging weapons systems, such as the Paladin Integrated Management, and Field Artillery munitions, such as the Precision Guidance Kit (PGK), Guided MLRS and the Excalibur, assured unparalleled precision lethal fires, while the School’s ground work on Army Doctrine 2015 prepared the School and the Field Artillery to move into the future. 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 for their next or first assignment and worked to introduce Army Learning Model 2015 and to modernize Field Artillery Fires. The School also engaged the Army through Warfighter Forums, and developed an engagement strategy 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. As part of the Fires Center of Excellence, the Field Artillery School participated in growing the next generation Fires force. From equipment modernization to training, the Field Artillery School is providing a force capable of winning in Unified Land Operations. Around the world, Redleg Soldiers are the pride of the Nation’s forces. The Field Artillery School is achieving great things, and we truly are on the glide path to modernizing the Field Artillery. Artillery Strong! (Original Signed) CHRISTOPHER F. BENTLEY Brigadier General, U.S. Army Commandant, United States Army Field Artillery School iii PREFACE The 2013 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 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 COMMANDANT’S INTRODUCTION ii PREFACE iii TABLE OF CONTENTS iv CHAPTER ONE: MISSION, ORGANIZATION, AND PERSONNEL Introduction 1 Field Artillery School Mission Statement 1 Organization 1 Commandant 1 Maneuver Center of Excellence Fires Cell 2 Field Artillery Proponency Office 3 Strategic Communications Office 7 Women in the Army and the Field Artillery 7 Warfighter Forums 9 Fires Center of Excellence and Field Artillery School Accreditation 10 Sequestration 12 CHAPTER TWO: LEADER DEVELOPMENT: TRAINING AND EDUCATION Introduction 15 Live, Virtual, Constructive, and Gaming Training Strategy 15 Army Learning Model 2015 16 Modernizing Field Artillery Fires 19 Gaming 23 Leader Decision Exercise, Virtual Battlespace Simulation Two, and Field Artillery Basic Officer Leader Course 24 Training Aids, Devices, Simulators, and Simulations 25 Distance Learning 27 Army National Guard Regional Training Institutes 27 Noncommissioned Officer Academy and Noncommissioned Officer Education System 28 428th Field Artillery Brigade Accreditation 32 Functional Courses 32 Advanced Individual Training 34 Warrant Officer Education System 35 Officer Education System 35 Joint and Combined Integration Directorate 42 Joint Integration Division 43 Precision Fires Program 43 Target Mensuration Only and Collateral Damage Estimation and Weaponeering Courses 47 Joint Fires Observer Course 47 v Joint Operational Fires and Effects Course 48 Joint Fires Observer Team 49 Non-lethal Training 50 Electronic Warfare Courses 50 Special Technical Operations Course 53 CHAPTER THREE: COMBAT DEVELOPMENTS: FORCE DESIGN, DOCTRINE, AND REQUIREMENTS Introduction 55 Force Design and Doctrine 55 Field Artillery Modernization Strategy: Field Artillery Force of 2020 55 Grade Plate Review 56 Army 2020 Redesign 57 Fires Command: DIVARTY and Corps Field Artillery Brigade 58 Army Doctrine 60 Tactical Wheeled Vehicle Studies 62 M777 and M119 Composite Battalion and Precision Fires 65 Precision Munitions, Target Location Error, Quick Reaction Capability and Handheld Devices 66 Electric Fires 69 TRADOC Capabilities Manager Brigade Combat Team-Fires 71 Excalibur Extended-Range Guided Projectile 71 Precision Guidance Kit 78 Future Cannon Munitions Suite 82 M777 Towed 155-mm. Howitzer 83 M119 Towed 105-mm. Howitzer 87 Paladin Integrated Management 91 Improved Position and Azimuth Determining System-G 95 TRADOC Capabilities Manager Fires Cell 96 Precision Fires Warrior Ensemble 96 Warfighter Information Network-Tactical 98 Bradley Fire Support Vehicle 99 Knight Vehicle 101 Lightweight Laser Designator Rangefinder 103 Joint Effects Targeting System 105 Fire Support Sensor System 107 Profiler 107 Fire Support Command, Control, and Communications Systems 109 Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System 109 Handheld Command and Control Systems 112 TRADOC Capabilities Manager Fires Brigade 113 Fires Radar Strategy 113 vi Enhanced AN/TPQ-36/53 Radar 113 AN/TPQ-37 Radar 115 AN/TPQ-50 Radar 116 Multiple Launcher Rocket System 117 Munitions 117 Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System Alternative Warhead 122 Launchers 125 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System 127 Army Tactical Missile System 131 CHAPTER FOUR: FIRES BATTLE LABORATORY 132 Glossary 165 Appendix One: Student Production for Fiscal Year 2013 171 Appendix Two: Key FCoE and USAFAS Personnel 172 Appendix Three: Field Artillery School Commandants 173 Appendix Four: Chiefs of Field Artillery 175 Appendix Five: Assistant Commandants 177 Appendix Six: Command Sergeant Majors of USAFAS since 1991 179 Appendix Seven: Command Sergeant Majors of NCOA 180 Appendix Eight: USAFCOEFS Organization Chart as of 8 April 2013 181 Appendix Nine: Field Artillery Commandant’s Office Chart as of 27 March 2014 182 Appendix Ten: List of Documents 183 Index of Names 184 CHAPTER ONE MISSION, ORGANIZATION, AND PERSONNEL INTRODUCTION 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. In 2013 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), Fort Sill, Oklahoma. During the year, the Field Artillery School trained the Field Artillery forces of the United States Army and United States Marine Corps, provided joint training, developed Field Artillery leaders and Soldiers, helped design and develop fire support tactics and doctrine, participated in equipment and weapons development and force design updates, and supported unit training and readiness.1 FIELD ARTILLERY SCHOOL MISSION STATEMENT The U.S. Army Field Artillery School trains, educates, and develops agile, adaptive, and decisive Soldiers and leaders; engages, collaborates and partners with other branches, warfighting function proponents, and sister-Services; and serves as