artillery officer
Guns unit leader
An artillery officer is a military officer who commands units operating large-caliber weapons—cannons, howitzers, rocket launchers, and missile systems.
Artillery officers coordinate fire support, calculate trajectories, and direct bombardments in support of ground forces.
The artillery officer called in coordinates for the barrage.
- cannonLarge mounted gun
- commanderPerson with authority over others
- indirect fireWeapons aimed at unseen targets
- howitzerShort-barreled artillery piece
- fire missionCommand to engage target
fire support · lieutenant · World War I · shell shock · forward observer · leadership training · gunnery sergeant · Napoleonic Wars · mortar · battery commander · captain · redleg · range finding · barrage · rolling barrage · map reading · field gun · enfilade
- military officerscolonel, general, major, admirals, field marshals
- artillery crewgunner, loader, cannoneer, gun crew, powder monkey
artillery officerinfantry officer
Military leader of foot soldiers
cavalry officer · infantryman · foot soldier · cavalryman · naval officer
artillery officercivilian
Non-military person
pacifist · non-combatant · conscientious objector · peace activist · civil servant
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