Posted on Apr 7, 2016
Do Mortar FDC personnel still maintain a proficiency with the M16 Plotting Board?
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With the Fire Direction technology we have, is it still important for 11C NCO's to be able to compute fire missions with just a map, protractor, plotting board, pencil, and firing tables/whiz wheel?
11C: Indirect Fire Infantryman (Mortarman)
Infantry Mortar Leaders Course (IMLC)
Fire Direction Center (FDC)
0341: Mortarman
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In the USMC they do. Cant speak for any other branch.
You may want to add a tag of 0341 to you original post to include Marine mortarman
You may want to add a tag of 0341 to you original post to include Marine mortarman
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Like many things, keeping old school around is a good thing when technology craps out. Can't think of the number of times when china markers and plastic saved the day. Some things like having to write backwards with vertical plots are not taught anymore because there are no vertical plots on ships. So some old school is the stuff of museums.
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