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ATP 3-09.02 (FM 6-2) DISTRIBUTION RESTRICTION: Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. This publication supersedes FM 6-2, Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Field Artillery Survey dated 23 September 1993. i Army Techniques Publication No. 3-09.02 Headquarters Department of the Army Washington, DC, 16 February 2016 Field Artillery Survey Contents Page PREFACE............................................................................................................. vii INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................... ix Chapter 1 MISSION, RESPONSIBILITIES, AND DUTIES ................................................. 1-1 Survey Planning ................................................................................................. 1-1 Survey Operations .............................................................................................. 1-1 Responsibilities................................................................................................... 1-2 Fundamental Survey Operations........................................................................ 1-4 Planning Responsibilities.................................................................................... 1-5 Field Artillery Survey Organizations ................................................................... 1-6 Duties of Survey Personnel ................................................................................ 1-6 Chapter 2 SURVEY PLANNING ......................................................................................... 2-1 Conduct of Planning ........................................................................................... 2-1 Survey Planners ................................................................................................. 2-3 Factors Affecting Survey Planning ..................................................................... 2-4 Methods of Survey.............................................................................................. 2-6 Steps in Survey Planning ................................................................................... 2-7 The Survey Order ............................................................................................... 2-9 Principles of a Survey Standard Operating Procedure .................................... 2-11 Chapter 3 SURVEY OPERATIONS .................................................................................... 3-1 Section I – Field Artillery Battalion Survey .................................................... 3-1 Reasons for Common Grid ................................................................................. 3-1 Variations in Starting Control .............................................................................. 3-2 Conversion to Common Grid .............................................................................. 3-2 Position Area Survey Requirements .................................................................. 3-3 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) Survey ............................................... 3-5 M777 Survey ...................................................................................................... 3-7 Paladin Survey ................................................................................................... 3-7 Description of the Gun Laying and Positioning System ..................................... 3-8 Target Acquisition ............................................................................................... 3-9 Section II – Maintenance of Survey information ......................................... 3-10