Artillery

were forced to push that back. For their current position to the landing zone is an estimated 14 miles. When they got the green light they hastily mounted their helicopters and deployed. while on route to their destination, they could see the 105mm artillery preparatory fire on the LZ. They touched down at 10:48, because they were short on men they would not use the standard operating procedure to secure an LZ they would instead they would keep a large force in the middle while smaller units…

The Patriot Advanced Capability 3 (PAC 3) is a surface to air missile fired from a Phased Array Tracking Radar of Target (PATRIOT) Launching element. The Air Defense Artillery Branch is the primary branch that uses the technology. The missile provides air and missile defense capabilities in the defense of U.S deployed forces and allies. The PAC-3 missile effects more countries other than the United States, countries such as; Bahrain, Denmark, Germany, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait,…

brigade, and small numbers of naval personnel. In addition to small arms and machine guns, the Japanese also possessed 36 medium tanks, and 12 light tanks. Also, present on the island were 29, 75mm mountain guns, 22 howitzers and scattered coastal artillery pieces (Crowl, 1993). American forces consisted of the 2nd and 4th Marine divisions, along with the US Army 27th division totaling 71,000 troops (Kingston, 2017). The 2nd Marines were veterans of Guadalcanal and Tarawa, with the 4th Marines…

The plan was simple, practically unbeatable, and a sure win for the Allies. Nothing could possibly allow it to fail. The Battle of the Somme was a complete military blunder when the fight broke out on that dreadful July 1st morning in 1916, to when it ended on November 18th, 1916. Despite the fact that the French needed relief from the German’s at Verdun, the Somme Offensive was only supposed to be a short battle. What it turned into was a mass killing of numerous troops on both sides of the…

Introduction September 17, 1944, Allied forces commenced the largest airborne operation, code name Operation Market-Garden, which took place in Holland in order to make way for Allied forces, both ground and air to advance through Holland into Germany. The scheme of the operation was an idea by Field Marshall Sir Bernard Montgomery, which he had convinced the Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight Eisenhower in approving Operation Market-Garden, which called for a direct thrust towards the…

restrictive rules of engagement. I was also attached to an Artillery Battalion with little experience with a maneuver element. My Platoon felt we were being put in harm’s way while having little impact on the mission. We decided to be creative and use our resources in an unorthodox fashion to bring positive results to our area of operations. I was deployed to Afghanistan from February to October of 2014. My Troop was attached to an Artillery Battalion and we were charged with conducting…

tactics. It also made commanders see guns as the future of warfare, even if firearms at the moment still had some drawbacks. This mentality resulted in that the defensive tactics of the fifteen century saw a huge decrease in their effectiveness when artillery emerged on the battlefield at the battle of Crécy in 1346. Siege guns effectively tore through castles. Now, fortifications that had taken decades to construct, were considerably less useful. Prove of the success of siege guns can be seen…

Have you ever wanted to rise to power into the role of a leader of the country? If you have, you might have that unique personality that Napoleon Bonaparte had. He got lucky and worked his way up through the ranks, He used a lot of military tactics, and overall, he was a hero. Viewed as both good and bad, Napoleon Bonaparte was a very powerful leader using a mix of skill, luck and a wide variety of military tactics to get to his position of power. Napoleon Bonaparte used a wide variety of…

PFC Doss was Medal of Honor recipient following his draft in April 1942. He was recognized due to the extremes underwent to save his comrades. On one occasion, a heavy concentration of artillery, mortar and machinegun fire crashed and inflicted 75 casualties. As a company aid man, PFC Doss refused cover and carried all 75 casualties down to safe hands. On another occasion, PFC Doss exposed himself to heavy rifle and mortar fire in order to rescue a wounded man. A few days later, he advanced…

and the Dawes Plan in 1924 and 1929, the depression ended up cancelling the reparations in 1932. Germany ended up paying $33 billion for the damages because they had started the war. The money all went to the Allies. Germany also had no more heavy artillery, air force, tanks, submarines, and reduced to only 100,000 men in the army. One of the five main results of the Treaty of Versailles is that since Germany had started the war back in 1914 because of the assassination of the archduke, they got…