Aug. 15, 2022

JOINT TARGETING WITH THE ADVANCED FIELD ARTILLERY TACTICAL DATA SYSTEM (AFATDS)

Originally published November 1995. Joint targeting has long been a problem with limited answers. Anyone that has worked the issues of the air tasking order (ATO), integrated targeting order (ITO), or coordination of joint fires knows the frustration of manual charts, floppy disk transfers, and long phone calls. Soon we will have one of the answers to this complex problem.

July 15, 2022

A history of the 101st Airborne Division (AASLT) Aviation Brigade TACP

With the Aviation Brigade functioning as an independent maneuver brigade, the question of how the Aviation Brigade TACP would function in supporting not only the brigade itself, but also its several attack battalions, initially presented quite a challenge. Attempting to find an equitable solution to this dilemma, the Aviation Brigade went through basically three evolutionary stages in its operating concept.