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While sitting in the turret of a Bradley Fighting Vehicle, 2nd Lt.
Stephanie Ramiro, a fire support officer, and Staff Sgt. Jeffery
Gouge, a fire support specialist, both with 2nd Battalion, 82nd Field
A column of fictional tanks is destroyed by a pair of 2,000-pound bombs dropped
by an Air Force B-l bomber during a joint live-fire exercise that took place at the
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Artillery Regiment, 3rd BCT, 1st Cav. Div., watch a joint live-fire
exercise at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. The pair
called for fire support during the exercise at the start of the decisive
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A Soldier with HHB, DIVARTY, 1st Cav. Div., pulls guard duty in a humvee during
a training rotation at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. The 1st Cav.
DIVARTY is the first division artillery headquarters to complete a training rotation
at the training center.
stay healthy.
Along with their overall task of
synchronizing fire support for the
3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cav.
Div., the headquarters battery had to
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The big challenge of the headquar-
ters was ensuring Soldiers were fed,
all vehicles were running, and jug-
gling TOC security.
“I hope the Soldiers learned their
job, the job they signed up for,”
said Capt. Codie Fields, commander
of Headquarters and Headquarters
Battery, DIVARTY, 1st Cav. Div.
“But on top of that, every Soldier
in the battery has a secondary job.
Sometimes that’s to pull security in
a tower for 12 hours, or to going on
patrol.”
“It gives you a neat perspective or
experience because one, you have to
provide your own security for your
own element; two, you are working
in a different environment which
you wouldn’t get if you were in the
rear somewhere; and you have an
actual enemy or aggressor,” said Maj.
Michael Englis, operations officer for
1st Cav. DIVARTY.
The headquarters was able to
train on delivering artillery support
to maneuver units, synchronize and
integrate Army, joint, and coalition
fires, and conduct targeting.
An essential part of Red Team’s
mission was to track the enemy’s
artillery fire with radar and then
decide which assets to use to stop
that enemy unit. Red Team could
let the closest brigade to the threat
neutralize the enemy, or call on any
of the other units that fell under
DIVARTY.
Another large part of Red Team’s
responsibilities was counter fire.
Counter fire is where an artillery
battery fires on the enemy’s artillery
assets to include mortars, cannons,
rocket launchers and target acquisi-
tion capabilities.
“We were able to reduce our coun-
ter fire response time to about 3.5
minutes from seven minutes,” Gay-
don said. “It allowed us to see our-
selves better then we have ever seen
ourselves before.”
Photos by Sgt Garett Hernandez, 1st Cav. Div. Public Affairs
action rotation. The live-fire exercise combined multiple launch
rocket systems, an Air Force B-l bomber, AH-64 Apache helicopters,
and self-propelled howitzers.
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FORT IRWIN, Calif. — Near the
summit of a ridge line sits a Brad-
ley Fighting Vehicle where a second
lieutenant and a staff sergeant report
seeing a simulated column of enemy
tanks moving along the valley floor.
Suddenly, a series of booms ring
out, followed by two thunderous
explosions that resonate across the
desert valley.
The “tanks” are no more.
The targets were destroyed when
the observers called for rockets from
Multiple Launch Rocket Systems,
Hellfire missiles from AH-64 Apache
helicopters, artillery rounds from
Ml09 self-propelled howitzers and
two 2,000-pound bombs dropped
from an Air Force B-l bomber.
The visually impressive display of
firepower was part of a joint fires
exercise, organized in part by the
1st Cavalry Division Artillery, also
known as the “Red Team.”
“It brought together not only fires
that a brigade combat team has as far
as their (howitzers), but general sup-
port MLRS, which our DIVARTY
(tactical command post) sent the fire
mission for the time on target that
started that exercise,” said Col. Pat-
rick Gaydon, commander of 1 st Cav.
DIVARTY.
The exercise was part of a deci-
sive action rotation at the National
Training Center, Fort Irwin, Califor-
nia. This is the first time any division
artillery headquarters has gone into
the training area at NTC during a
rotation.
“(DIVARTY) got to fully exercise
everything that comes with a NTC
rotation,” Gaydon said. “In terms
of a live (opposing force), challenges
with communications, field craft,
making maintenance work out in a
field environment, and all the things
you need.”
While in the training area, the Red
Team had many challenges that go
with being in an austere environment
— from keeping equipment running
and dust free, to ensuring Soldiers
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