Call for Fire- Live Fire Ft. Sill

My second live fire CFF while at FABOLC. Did an immediate suppression CFF on a draw on signal mountain. The target was 3km away, and we got a 1 gun, 3 round FFE . Learned a valuable lesson on IS missions that day. You can see the dust kick up from the rounds as they function effectively :)

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• call
• for
• fire
• artillery
• ft
• sill
• cff
• ffe

[oxoConstantinEoxo]

i didnt expected such vid from you somewhow :O

but to be honest... i don't understand any of the "shortcuts" you have mentioned in the description T_T

[colinbeatty]

@oxoConstantinEoxo

It is just my job and I am enjoying it very much, even though learning the math involved on getting rounds on target can involve many variables.

CFF- Call for Fire

FFE- Fire for Effect

IS- Immediate Suppression

FABOLC- Field Artillery Basic Officer Leaders Course

[sureshots523]

@colinbeatty Just a question but how intense is the math involved in calling for fire, I just enlisted with a 13F mos

[colinbeatty]

@sureshots523 Compared to what your 13D will be doing math-wise it is much easier. Observer-Target factors multiplied by the correction in mils will probably be the hardest math you will have to do until you get to E-5. Planning for moving targets is probably the most difficult after that.

The biggest difficulty is can you run alongside infantry, and while your heart is racing give accurate target location over the radio. When your tired the easiest equations are often the hardest.

[ftaredmonkey]

LHMBC is the bomb.

[sureshots523]

@colinbeatty Thanks for the insight I'm scheduled to leave February 20th n I'm just trying to learn as much as I can before I ship

[paul476hong]

i love us army and sk