First off, sorry for the Wannabe-intrusion. I had just figured since I have an artillery question, I might as well go straight to the source. So if you don't want to answer this, that's cool.
Anyway, I've just selected Artillery for my MOS. I know that deployment is inevitable, so I was wondering what place Artillery has in Iraq right now. From my knowledge, or lack thereof, of the war in Iraq, the fighting is going on in an urban setting. So I can't really picture a bunch of Artillery dudes just bombing away on all the neighborhoods, with civilians all around.
So basically, what is Artillery doing in Iraq right now?
Originally posted by Griswoldd: First off, sorry for the Wannabe-intrusion. I had just figured since I have an artillery question, I might as well go straight to the source. So if you don't want to answer this, that's cool.
Anyway, I've just selected Artillery for my MOS. I know that deployment is inevitable, so I was wondering what place Artillery has in Iraq right now. From my knowledge, or lack thereof, of the war in Iraq, the fighting is going on in an urban setting. So I can't really picture a bunch of Artillery dudes just bombing away on all the neighborhoods, with civilians all around.
So basically, what is Artillery doing in Iraq right now?
Military Police/CAG and every other frikken thing that needs to get done.
he may never read this post again. but as an arty bubba now. we deployed to iraq as a MP company. basically 7 months of patroling the syrian border. some of the worst times of life yet still fun....sometimes...
We had some arty attached to us in Iraq. Most of them got put on guard while the rest shot illum all night. When my battallion went on a huge field op they came too. They coiled up, set their **** up, and sat around all day waiting for dark to cover us with illum. The two guys I talked to later on hated their lives, but they were stuck on guard for most of the deployment, which can happen to any mos.
Originally posted by dude14159: he may never read this post again. but as an arty bubba now. we deployed to iraq as a MP company. basically 7 months of patroling the syrian border. some of the worst times of life yet still fun....sometimes...
1/12 huh? lol You ready to go again? We leave in 5 days big dog!
I was in OIF Aug 2008-Feb 2009 with 2/11. Civil Affairs. There was another arty battalion asigned to Task Force MP. HIMARS left and there's a few other arty companies playing dual role, security and convoys by day with a few guys shooting an occasional illumination round at night. Saw 4 tubes in my travels across Anbar, none had shot more than Illum.
