TC-3-09-8 Fire Support and Field Artillery Certification Download
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Fire Support and Field Artillery Certification and Qualification Content 30 March 2020 TC 3-09.8 2-3 2-14. Appendix A: Safety - This appendix provides basic rules for preventing firing incidents. Individuals make errors, and the best safeguard against those errors is the use of established time tested safety procedures and an independent double check of all operations in which human error could cause a firing incident. 2-15. Appendix B: Calculation of the Executive Officer’s (referred as XO) minimum quadrant elevation (referred as QE) - This appendix provides leaders with the knowledge, skills and method to manual calculate the XO min QE or use the Rapid Fire Tables to extract the XO min QE for cannon systems, propellants and fuses. Tabular Firing Tables and Rapid Fire Tables are available on the Army Knowledge Online (referred as AKO) site via web link that is provided in this appendix. 2-16. Appendix C: Field Artillery Home Station Training Strategy - This appendix provides examples for all FA battalions to plan, execute and assess the FA Home Station Strategy. Based on the FA unit type, the examples provide implementation guidance for individual to battalion level collective training and how it links to operational requirements and support the maneuver commander's collective training events. This example is supported by the unit Combined Arms Training Strategy and are instrumental when planning and conducting training. 2-17. Appendix D: Time and Accuracy Standards - This appendix identifies that accurate and timely artillery fires are critical for mission accomplishment and battlefield survival of the maneuver force. Recognizing this, FA units continue to improve their fire mission response time. The time standards in this Appendix represent the maximum amount of time a well-trained FA unit takes to place accurate fire on target. Accurate field artillery fires are a mandate, and no amount of speed in response times displaces this requirement. Trainers should be acutely aware of this fact and stress accuracy foremost in their training programs. As teamwork improves through training, response time should decrease without sacrificing accuracy. 2-18. Appendix E: Sample Written Exams - This appendix provides examples of written examinations that can be used for your unit training and certification programs and sample task for Leader's hands-on component test. The test provided are purely examples and should be revised and maintained by the unit master gunner. Test and answers are required to be controlled by the unit master gunner. 2-19. Appendix F: M28A1/A2 Rocket Crest Clearance Tables - This appendix provides leaders with a planning tool to assess the impact of intervening crests on rocket trajectories. 2-20. Appendix G: Firing Incidents and Troubleshooting - This appendix provides further detail on the Five Requirements and their role in providing accurate fires for supported maneuver commanders. It additionally provides a checklist for FA leaders to consider in troubleshooting inaccurate fires. 2-21. Appendix H: Field Artillery Marksmanship Qualification – This appendix provides the requirements for Soldiers to be eligible to wear the “Field Arty” bar, on the U.S. Army Marksmanship Qualification Badge. Additionally, it discusses the standards of precision applying to all evaluated tasks, qualification scores determining the status of graded Soldiers, and collective tasks being graded. 2-22. Appendix I: 13R AN-TPQ-36 Firefinder Radar – This appendix provides a standard methodology for training and evaluating individuals and crews/sections on the task required to safely emplace, prepare for operations, conduct radar operations and the displacement of the AN-TPQ-36 Radar system.