...or are hiding on the back sides of hills or in the urban canyons. For those, you grab the
High Angle sticks. If your maximum ordinate is high enough, you have to call Dusty and make sure it's okay with him. Bill, not so much.
Somewhere, somewhen in the sandbox, some Redlegs engage in some High Angle fires...
Other targets are closer - and you snag
the Low Angle sticks from the fire direction kit. Or, worse yet, you, as the Gunner, can *see* them (we prefer to leave that kind of simple gunnery to the DATs* and DAGs*) and you have to resort to the (shudder)
gunner's elbow telescope (this being the M114) and go all direct fire on 'em.
Maj. Gen. Tod Carmony, the commander of the 38th Infantry Division, and former commanders yank the lanyard together firing the last round for the M198 howitzer during a retirement ceremony for the M198 at Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center, Ind., on September 18, 2010. The M198 howitzer is being replaced by the M777 howitzer, which is smaller and approximately 40 percent lighter.
Oh, who am I kidding - today they use
the computers the Auld Soldier and I (and many many others) helped develop for them over the years. Unless they can see the target. And if they can, well, the DATs and DAGs have flunked their MTEP tasks!
And that concludes today's Moment of Gunner Zen.
*DAT= Dumb-A$$ Tanker.
*DAG=Dumb-A$$ Grunt.
Terms of endearment, I assure you.
Read the complete post at http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/11/many_targets_ar.html
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