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Ok, this may be a question that has been answered or that the Arty or that it may be already doing, but here goes.
Just reading up on Artillery operations in Iraq, and as I understand it Marine Artillery Regiments were divided on a battalion basis to the maneuver units of the Marine Division (for example 1/11 went with 1 Marines, 2/11 went with 5 Marines and 3/11 with 7 Marines - I think the fourth battalion was kept as a divisional reserve?). Anyways, do you Gunners see this as being possible, with a little organizational moving, at the Brigade Group level? Batteries could be detached to the fast-moving battalions on an attack; able to mass their fires for regimental shoots if required but really focused on providing the battalion commander with his own source of indirect firepower.
I know batteries have been deployed independently on operations, but I wasn't sure if this was an ad hoc measure. Is busting up an Artillery Regiment and assigning it to the maneuver unit commanders feasible, or is this too low a level (ie: Marines can do it at Div levels, but doing it lower wouldn't work). Would there be a requirement to alter manning levels at the battery level and/or regimental level?
I don't know much about the lay of the land with the Arty side, but I was just curious if we would do this or if we would want to keep everything at the Brigade level.
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Just reading up on Artillery operations in Iraq, and as I understand it Marine Artillery Regiments were divided on a battalion basis to the maneuver units of the Marine Division (for example 1/11 went with 1 Marines, 2/11 went with 5 Marines and 3/11 with 7 Marines - I think the fourth battalion was kept as a divisional reserve?). Anyways, do you Gunners see this as being possible, with a little organizational moving, at the Brigade Group level? Batteries could be detached to the fast-moving battalions on an attack; able to mass their fires for regimental shoots if required but really focused on providing the battalion commander with his own source of indirect firepower.
I know batteries have been deployed independently on operations, but I wasn't sure if this was an ad hoc measure. Is busting up an Artillery Regiment and assigning it to the maneuver unit commanders feasible, or is this too low a level (ie: Marines can do it at Div levels, but doing it lower wouldn't work). Would there be a requirement to alter manning levels at the battery level and/or regimental level?
I don't know much about the lay of the land with the Arty side, but I was just curious if we would do this or if we would want to keep everything at the Brigade level.
Infanteer
