DIVARTY

Hello,
Even though I'm now 11b, I will always love my time as a 13b.
Here some info I hope helps.
I did time on the light guns. 102, 105mm to be specific. I call it the .38 special of artillery. If you get assigned to this, you will most likely be on the 119. The ammo is the same, 105mm. This ammo is what's called seperate loading ammo. In other words, is comes in 2 componates. The shell/canister, and the projectile. The canister looks like a big bullet shell. It has a long primer in the middle and come with 7 bags of powder in it. Dependinmg on the charge you will take out what's not needed. For example, if it's a charge 5 you will remove the 6th and 7th bag. Once the powder is set, the projectile is placed on the shell and loaded into the breach and is closed. The pojectile will have differant fuses screwed on top. They come in differant types, point detonated, verible time, delayed time ect. After the round if fired, the shell is ejected.
With 155 mm, you load the round and push it forward then add the bowder bags with a red bag being last, install the primer, attach the laniard, and fire. then swab the breach and your ready for the next round.
All guns are laid on target by the collimeter. This is an infenity site the you line up the PANTEL gunners site to. Once you get the deflection, the gunner turns the tube the that number. The quadrent is the number for elevation. The tube is raised or lowered to this number.
You will get all of this at AIT.
As for the intelligent level of those in the artillery, yes I have seen some rocks, but most are very intellegent. In my case, all my line scores are well over 100.