battery commander
Guns unit leader
A battery commander is the officer in charge of an artillery battery—a military unit typically consisting of several guns or missile launchers and their crews.
The position carries responsibility for the battery's readiness, training, and tactical employment in combat: The battery commander ordered the howitzers into position.
- artilleryLarge-caliber battlefield weapons
- field artilleryMobile military cannons
- captainOne who commands
- howitzerShort-barreled artillery piece
- fire missionCommand to engage target
fire support · forward observer · direct fire · guns · lieutenant · military rank · salvo · cannons · volley · barrage · military · officer · shells · ordnance · bombardment · coordinates · targeting · platoon
battery commanderenlisted soldier
Non-officer in armed forces
private · gunner · cannoneer · subordinate · artilleryman
battery commandership captain
Commander of a vessel
tank commander · company commander · infantry officer · submarine commander · fighter pilot
battery commandercivilian
Non-military person
noncombatant · pacifist · conscientious objector · prisoner of war · refugee
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