United States Army Field Artillery School

The United States Army Field Artillery School (USAFAS) trains Field Artillery Soldiers and Marines in tactics, techniques, and procedures for the employment of fire support systems in support of the maneuver commander. The school further develops leaders who are tactically and technically proficient, develops and refines warfighting doctrine, and designs units capable of winning on future battlefields. The school is currently located at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

Goal
The goal of the United States Army Field Artillery School is to prepare Soldiers and Marines for war and operations other than war.

Training command accomplishes this goal through instruction for Soldiers and Marines from initial entry level through battalion, division artillery and Field Artillery brigade pre-command courses

Mission

 * The Mission of the Field Artillery: is to destroy, neutralize, or suppress the enemy by cannon, rocket, or missile fires and to help integrate fire support assets into combined arms operations.
 * To accomplish the Field Artillery mission, Training Command must train Field Artillery Soldiers and Marines in tactics, techniques, and procedures for the employment of fire support systems in support of the maneuver commander. Training Command further develops leaders who are tactically and technically proficient, develops and refines warfighting doctrine, and designs units capable of winning on future battlefields.


 * The Mission of the Firing Battery: is to destroy, neutralize, or suppress the enemy by cannon, rocket and missile fires and to help integrate all fire support assets into combined arms operations.

History
The origin of USAFAS can be traced back to the 1907 reorganization of the Artillery Corps and to the character of Fort Sill at that time. The 1907 reorganization created Coastal and Field Artillery Branches. In the process of this reorganization, the Field Artillery was deprived of its former home at Fort Monroe, Virginia. Fort Sill was considered the best location for a Field Artillery school, since its 15000 acre reservation allowed ample room for target practice and its great variety of terrain offered an excellent area for different types of tactical training. In addition, the post had already assumed the character of the home of artillery with a large number of artillery units assigned.

The first artillery school, the US Army School of Fire, was organized in 1911 by Captain Dan Tyler Moore. With the exception of a brief period in 1916 when school troops were used as frontier security guards during the Mexican Revolution, the School has operated and expanded continuously. Hundreds of thousands of artillerymen have been trained at Fort Sill since the inception of the School.