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I am thinking of becoming an artillery soldier after highschool. What is it like to be one? What do you do on deployments?Can you give me some advice about being an artillery soldier. Thank you in advance
 
Yes, artillery soldiers can do the jump course though there aren't as many slots as other trades, namely the infantry (mostly mortar crewmen)
 
There are also some for OP stream folks. Generally speaking, artillery are able to do most of the specialty courses available to any other trade that is not trade specific.
 
Do you have to memorize a lot of things? What kind of things do you need to memorize while being an artillery soldier
 
Yes, all kinds of Artillery things...............
 
Do you try each position? Like pulling the trigger, loading the ammunition etc...
Can you pick which position you want to do
What if you are bad at that particular position?
Thank you in advancd
 
The wide part of the shovel works best for digging, and the pointy end of the bullet goes in the gun first, that's about it...
 
Kat Stevens said:
The wide part of the shovel works best for digging, and the pointy end of the bullet goes in the gun first, that's about it...

Pull string make gun go boom
 
I want to be an artillery soldier after school and was wondering if police foundations would be a good course to take before joining the army. Thank you in a advance for your input
 
Jtran57 said:
I want to be an artillery soldier after school and was wondering if police foundations would be a good course to take before joining the army. Thank you in a advance for your input

Police Foundations is ****ing useless. Under no circumstances should anyone bother with that program. There are much more versatile throwaway diplomas. Wanting to be a cop later in life doesn't make it any better an idea. It's just a cash grab by colleges. If you have the drive to go to school, take something - almost anything - else. PF is an absolute waste of time and money.
 
Brihard said:
Police Foundations is ****ing useless. Under no circumstances should anyone bother with that program. There are much more versatile throwaway diplomas. Wanting to be a cop later in life doesn't make it any better an idea. It's just a cash grab by colleges. If you have the drive to go to school, take something - almost anything - else. PF is an absolute waste of time and money.

Don't you need to complete a Police Foundations or an equivalent course to become an MP? Granted, the OP isn't looking to become an MP, but still.
 
Need help picking a course for college. Wanting to be artillery soldier after
 
Jonsey said:
Don't you need to complete a Police Foundations or an equivalent course to become an MP? Granted, the OP isn't looking to become an MP, but still.

No. Police Foundations is accepted as one of several educational options for direct entry. It's the crappiest amongst them. Most people with police foundations will never be cops, yet it's almost useless for anything else. You're putting almost all your eggs in a poorly made basket when you take PF. A PF diploma will not too the scales regarding whether someone is suitable to be a cop of not. Better to get a more generally applicable education so that you have more options in the likely eventuality that you are not successful in getting into the MPs or another police force.

PF is something the colleges perpetuate as a likely step to a policing career. It is not. It's just a cash cow for them. If you're seriously considering taking PF, slam your junk in a car door instead. It will ultimately hurt no more, cost less, and you'll waste less of your time bouncing back from your poor decision. If you really want to be an MP specifically amongst all policing options, either get a different applicable education, or spend some years in another trade first to learn about the military and then apply to do a voluntary occupational transfer down the road.
 
  Surveying perhaps, if your school offers it.  Perhaps a physics course related to the subject of projectile motion or ballistics. 
 
surveying, communications. After you spend time on the gunline, branching out to work in the OP's or Command post is a good idea. Work on math and Trig
 
Jtran57 said:
Can they do a Basic Parachutist course?
Yes. As stated above the slots are usually pretty limited. Exceed the fitness standard and stand out (in a good way) and you may find yourself jumping out of a plane one day.


Jtran57 said:
Do you have to memorize a lot of things? What kind of things do you need to memorize while being an artillery soldier
Fire Discipline, to start with.
 
Jtran57 said:
Do you try each position? Like pulling the trigger, loading the ammunition etc...
Can you pick which position you want to do
What if you are bad at that particular position?
Thank you in advancd

If you are a NCM in the arty you can do a wide variety of jobs. You can work on the gunline as a M777 detachment member, doing all the jobs from putting ammo together, loading, being the det commander, etc as you progress.

you can also work within a field artillery Command Post, calculating gun data for firing and keeping situational awareness (with computers now thank goodness!)

You could also branch off into the Observation Post, Surveillance and Target Acquisition(STA), or Air Defence (AD, and yes, its still alive). If you do OPs you could be a LAV III driver, call fire missions, work with a FOO, and work within a FSCC later on. In the STA, you could work on a LCMR radar, a HALO accoustic weapon locating system, Scan Eagle (or replacement) UAV, or the Raven Mini UAV. In the AD, you can work within an Airspace Coordination Centre, and in a few years, within an Air Defence weapons det and AD radar det (Weapon expected in 2019ish, radar expected 2015ish).
 
Bird_Gunner45 said:
you can also work within a field artillery Command Post, calculating gun data for firing and keeping situational awareness (with computers now thank goodness!)

Interesting you say that.  A lot of older fellows would say we are better off with markers and talc.  I am not one of those older fellows.
 
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