Mission
- The Mission of the Field Artillery: is to destroy, neutralize, or suppress the enemy by cannon, rocket, or missile fires and to help integrate 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.
- The Mission of the Firing Battery: 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.
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