13J Fire Control Specialist
Delta Battery, 1st Battalion 78th Field Artillery
13J Class 16-23
Class 16-23 conducts practical exercises in manual gunnery. The class tests their knowledge from the subjects they have learned the week prior learning the Tabular Firing Table (TFT), Graphical Firing Table (GFT), Graphical Site Table (GST), and Record of Fire (ROF). They will complete this week by testing on manual gunnery, then they will pull out their laptops and start Basic AFATDS Operations
Class 16-23 are on their second portion of AFATDS. This week the class works on preparing the AFATDS for Fire Mission Processing by setting preferences in the system to make it easier to process fire missions to the 13B Cannoneers. They also put in meteorological data (weather), update target information, and set commanders guidance's in the system. They will finish out AFATDS with Fire Mission Processing working on building certain missions that could be sent to the 13B’s.
Class 16-23 pulls out something smaller, called the CENTAUR. This handheld device can process Fire Missions, just like the AFATDS and it is used as a secondary safety check out in the operational force. Soldiers spend the day how to initialize the system, input firing units, ammunition, muzzle velocities, and meteorological data. All data pertinent to process a fire mission.
