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Description
The new fires brigade target acquisition battery (TAB) has a diverse mission in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). The TAB provides not only doctrinal counterfire radar operations, but also logistical and operational support, mobile training teams (MTTs) and new equipment training (NET) teams for all radar systems in the area of responsibility (AOR). It also provides meteorological (Met) data for the fires battalions.
A Battery, 26th Field Artillery (A/26 FA), a TAB in the 4th Fires Brigade, supported organic radar sections on Camp Liberty, Iraq, and acted as a combat enabler for all counterfire radar systems in the Multi-National Division-Baghdad (MND-B). This included support for not only its Q-36 and Q-37 radars, but all radars in the MND-B's AOR--more than 20 systems.
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The TAB's mission evolved from the traditional role of augmenting a division-or brigade-level fires and effects cell (FEC) into a multi-faceted, autonomous organization that can deploy in whole or in segments. It supports not only internal logistical operations for the battery, but also projects logistical and operational support forward for radars, including new systems, such as the lightweight countermortar radar (LCMR) and the unattended transient acoustic measurements and signatures intelligence (MASINT) sensor (UTAMS).
A/26 FA is the first operational TAB under the fires brigade organization to deploy to combat operations in OIF.
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