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They are officially called "joint fire support specialists" in the U.S. Army and "fire support marines" in the U.S. Marine Corps. They are colloquially known as "FiSTers", regardless of whether they are members of a FiST (fire support team). A battalion fire support officer (FSO) is the officer in charge of a battalion fire support element.
13F Fire Support Specialist; 13J Fire Control Specialist (Formerly 13P and 13D) 13M Multiple Launch Rocket System/High Mobility Artillery Rocket System Crewmember; 13R Field Artillery Firefinder Radar Operator; 13T Field Artillery Surveyor/Meteorological Crewmember [4] 13U Field Artillery Recruit; 13Z Field Artillery Senior Sergeant/Sergeant Major
A fire support specialist looks through a laser range finder mounted atop an M1200 Knight armored vehicle. These are wheeled armored vehicles, designed using the M1117 Guardian ASV as the base, that carry the equipment needed to quickly bring in precision guided munitions and indirect artillery fire.
The equivalent of an artillery observer for close air support is a forward air controller, while for the equivalent for naval gunfire support is a spotter. For general fire support, the position is known as a fire support specialist (FiSTer) or simply an observer.
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The fire direction center (FDC) concept was developed at the Field Artillery School at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, during the 1930s under the leadership of its Director of Gunnery, Carlos Brewer [4] and his instructors, who abandoned massing fire by a described terrain feature or grid coordinate reference. They introduced a firing chart, adopted the ...
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