Marines Warfighting Laboratory Improving Support Artillery

The following is a release from Cpl. Michael Dye, II Marine Expeditionary Force:

The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory/Future Directorate conducted a limited objective experiment, with 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment and 1st Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment, Dec. 3-11, 2015, aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. The experiment was designed to evaluate a proposal to improve how direct support artillery can support dispersed forces.

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The construct of the infantry was a company landing team, an idea based on a battalion landing team. A battalion landing team is comprised of three or more infantry companies that make up the ground combat element of an expeditionary fighting force, along with multiple other platoon level enablers. An artillery battery falls under the GCE, which supports the BLT with indirect fire.

The experiment broke down the BLT into three company landing teams. Each CLT was assigned an artillery platoon of two weapons from the battery. To best examine the concept, three types of artillery weapons were used that offered distinctly different characteristics.

“The concept of what we are trying to accomplish out here is how we are going to employ and integrate artillery elements …Read the Rest

Source:: Tactical Life