Because field artillery is the primary supporting arm for Marine Infantry and Armor, most of its billets are in FMF ground organizations. Formal schooling or field skills training is provided to Marines entering the OccFld. Types of entry-level jobs include work as field artillery batteryman or cannoneer, radar operator, fire control man, meteorological man and, as a fire support man, spotting fires of artillery and naval gunfire. Field artillery observation and liaison include checking and analyzing combat plans and communicating appropriate advice, planning and operating information to coordinate the fires of field artillery and naval guns with infantry and armor combat maneuvers observing and reporting targets and other battlefield information and adjusting observed fires on targets. Field artillery operations involve moving, emplacing, operating, protecting, and maintaining equipment which acquires targets provides, relates, and evaluates gun and target survey information, meteorological data, weapon system performance and integrating these factors into orders and communicating these orders to the firing battery. Firing battery includes moving, emplacing, loading, firing, protecting, and maintaining field artillery cannon weapons systems. The duties that must be learned vary by functional area. Qualifications include ability and learned skills to operate and maintain artillery equipment basic technical and mathematical skills for computing, communicating, and executing fire commands ability and attitudes supporting life and close work with others in a field environment and performing duties involving hard technical skills as well as administrative and managerial skills.
The field artillery OccFld is divided among three functional areas: firing battery, field artillery operations, and field artillery observation/liaison. Duties include preparing personnel and equipment for movement and operation assisting in location of fire direction center or target acquisition radar in the field maintaining a situation map, operations journal, and survey records performing duties incident to the preparation, reproduction, and distribution of operations orders, training orders, memoranda, schedules, status reports, and S-3 periodic reports preparing operations maps and overlays assisting in the establishment and operation of artillery meteorological stations, direct atmospheric meteorological observation interpreting, evaluating and distributing atmospheric data performing duties incident to execution of survey plans essential to proper employment of field artillery assisting in installation, orientation, operation, and maintaining target acquisition radar equipment and training personnel in radar, meteorological, survey, and fire direction procedures.
Job Description: Field artillery operations men perform the various duties associated with the operation of a field artillery and mortar fire direction center operations or training section survey section meteorological section or target acquisition radar section.
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