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...commander) applied the FA lieutenant colonel billet on the brigade staff--one of three lieutenant colonels on the BCT staff (executive officer, or XO, and the S3 are the other two).
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The FSCOORD is responsible for properly manning, equipping and training all fire support personnel in the brigade on both traditional fire support tasks as well as non-traditional civil-military operations (CMO) and information operations (IO) tasks. He also builds a fusion cell in the BCT headquarters, the fire support cell (FSC). This FSC is comprised of traditional lethal fires and the Air Force tactical air control party (TACP) personnel and integrates IO, CMO, public affairs (PA) and the staff judge advocate (SJA) personnel and functions.
In these changing times, the FSCOORD must develop methods to work with maneuver commanders and their senior NCOs to seamlessly integrate all fusion cell enablers from the brigade to the platoon levels by way of the maneuver battalion fire support channels in support of an evolving brigade campaign plan.
To help current and future FSCOORDs, this article explains the processes and challenges within the fire support channels of the 2nd Infantry BCT (IBCT), 2nd Infantry Division (2nd ID), Fort Carson, Colorado, during the last 10 months as it prepared for its Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) deployment.
Transformation. In 2004, the 2nd IBCT, 2nd ID, deployed to Iraq from Korea. After a one-year tour, the unit deployed to Fort Carson in August 2005. Soon after, the brigade began transforming from a heavy brigade to a modular IBCT. With restructuring, reflagging and the introduction of six new battalion commanders and one new brigade commander, "muddy boots" training did not begin until January 2006. Part of this restructuring included the movement of all fire support personnel from the fires battalion to their respective maneuver battalions.
The new modified table of organization and equipment (MTOE) for the IBCT has a...
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