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Battery A, 1-319 Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, delivers lethal 105mm cannon artillery fires in support of the scheme of maneuver during
the day offensive FSCX iteration. (U.S. Army)

for air and artillery weapons platforms without a
discussion with their higher headquarters, we also
included assault command posts and tactical operations centers. Our focus was on developing training
scenarios that moved gradually closer to a combat
environment. This mission command centric
approach to training began with a twofold objective:
to train leaders on the art of synchronizing fires with
maneuver and to simultaneously exercise multiecheloned mission command challenges through
our command posts. We developed this “complex
scheme” to prepare us for our game day.

Integrating and Sustaining
Division Norms for Training and
Warfighting
When small units made contact with the enemy in
Iraq or Afghanistan, operational and strategic level
intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets
and additional combat power were quickly brought
on station and pushed down to the tactical level to
support the on-scene commander. Many times a
young platoon leader involved in a “troops in contact” situation quickly found himself maneuvering
his platoon under fire against a determined enemy
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and simultaneously coordinating for support. The
leader was required to call for indirect fires, control
air weapons FV