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Resurrecting The Light Cavalry's Fire Support
Fires Bulletin
|July-August 2018
Restructuring the IBCT squadron fire support teams to maximize capability
“Reconnaissance assets, like artillery assets, are never kept in reserve. When committed, reconnaissance assets use all of their resources to accomplish the mission.”
Chapter 1: Reconnaissance Field Manual 3-90-2
Over the course of the last year, 2nd Battalion, 15th Field Artillery Regiment has identified significant shortfalls in the utilization of our three fire support teams (FSTs) tasked to support the reconnaissance squadron. Currently, troop commanders are faced with the challenging decision between utilizing the fire support team’s M1200 Armored Knight to execute their fire support plan, or retain their fire support officer (FSO) within the troop command post to conduct fire support planning. It has become common practice during troop field training exercises and combined arms live-fire exercises for troop commanders to only utilize Option 2 when employing their fire support team. This results in the team’s M1200, the brigade’s most capable target location platform, to remain in the troop command post instead of observing mission critical targets.
This story is from the July-August 2018 edition of Fires Bulletin.
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