organization

The U.S. Army Field Artillery School consists of:

Deputy Assistant Commandant, Army National Guard

Directorate of Training and Doctrine

    ·  Master Gunner
           ·   Doctrine/Training Development Division
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· Morris Swett Technical Library

Capabilities Development and Integration Directorate (CDID)

         ·  Future Force Integration and Concepts
         ·  TPO Sensors
         ·  TSM Cannon
         ·  TSM FATDS
         ·  TSM RAMS

Quality Assurance

· Staff and Faculty

Joint & Combined Integration Directorate

United States Air Force (USAF) Joint Programs Division
The USAF Joint Programs Division provides instructors for field artillery courses at all levels from Advanced Individual Training to the Officers Advanced Course. They teach a wide range of Air Force and joint classes from the planning and execution of close air support to the planning of deep targets. Also, they provide forward air controllers for all combined arms exercises at Fort Sill.
Allied Liaison Officers

(Email Links)

British Army Canadian Forces French Army German Army Korean Army

FA Training Center (Basic Training / Advanced Individual Training)

Noncommissioned Officer Academy

United States Marine Corps (USMC) Detachment

United States Marine Corps (USMC) AFATDS Net

History

The origin of the United States Army Field Artillery School (USAFAS) can be traced back to the 1907 reorganization of the Artillery Corps and to the character of Fort Sill at that time. The 1907 reorganization created two artillery branches: The Coastal and the Field. In the process of this reorganization, the Field Artillery was deprived of its former home at Fort Monroe, Virginia. Fort Sill was considered the best location for a field artillery school, since its 15,000-acre reservation allowed ample room for target practice and its great variety of terrain offered an excellent area for different types of tactical training. In addition, the Post had already assumed the character of the home of artillery with a large number of artillery units assigned.
The first artillery school, the US Army School of Fire, was organized in 1911 by Captain Dan T. Moore. With the exception of a brief period in 1916 when school troops were used as frontier security guards during the Mexican Revolution, the School has operated and expanded continuously. Literally hundreds of thousands of artillerymen have been trained at Fort Sill since the inception of the School.

Goals

To prepare soldiers and Marines for war and operations other than war.

Training command accomplishes this goal through instruction for soldiers and marines from initial entry level through battalion, division artillery and field artillery brigade pre-command courses

Mission

The mission of the FIELD ARTILLERY is to destroy, neutralize, or suppress the enemy by cannon, rocket and missile fire and to help integrate all fire support assets into combined arms operations. To accomplish the field artillery mission, Training Command must train field artillery soldiers and Marines in tactics, techniques, and procedures for the employment of fire support systems in support of the maneuver commander. Training Command further develops leaders who are tactically and technically proficient, develops and refines Warfighting doctrine, and designs units capable of winning on future battlefields.