MORTAR TRAINING STRATEGY, FM 23-91
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ISBN / ASINB002LLO6FG
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MORTAR TRAINING STRATEGY, FM 23-91
This training strategy synchronizes institutional and unit components to produce units that are trained to win on the battlefield. It includes the training documents, institutional training, unit training, and training resources needed to achieve and sustain the required outcome. It covers the skills required for individual, crew, leader, and collective proficiency and ensures that the strategy is linked horizontally within CMF and vertically between officer and enlisted. This strategy integrates information from several publications (see References), including this manual, into a single-source document.
UNIT MORTAR TRAINING
Technical and tactical proficiency is based on sound training. The importance of skilled and proficient mortarmen must not be overlooked within the context of the battalion’s overall training strategy. Unless leaders have a mortar background, they may not understand the distinct training requirements and tactical role of mortars. This ensures
they will allocate priorities and resources to mortars, which are required for effective training. Therefore, leaders may also require training. This can be achieved by OPD and NCOPD instruction on mortars, which include both technical and tactical mortar subjects.
a. Once mortarmen have mastered their own tasks, they must be fully integrated into the training exercises of the company, battalion, or both. Only within the context of a full maneuver exercise can the mortar unit’s indirect fire support ability be fully trained and evaluated. However, mortars suffer from not having a training device (such
as MILES) to simulate the terminal effects of mortar rounds. As a result, maneuver units tend to under-employ their supporting mortars. Despite the current absence of such devices, there are other techniques to assess the effects of indirect fire. (These are outlined in GTA 25-6-7 and Appendix F of FM 25-4.) Fire missions not specifically using enemy targets — such as registration and adjusting final protective fires — should also be routinely conducted in maneuver exercises.
This training strategy synchronizes institutional and unit components to produce units that are trained to win on the battlefield. It includes the training documents, institutional training, unit training, and training resources needed to achieve and sustain the required outcome. It covers the skills required for individual, crew, leader, and collective proficiency and ensures that the strategy is linked horizontally within CMF and vertically between officer and enlisted. This strategy integrates information from several publications (see References), including this manual, into a single-source document.
UNIT MORTAR TRAINING
Technical and tactical proficiency is based on sound training. The importance of skilled and proficient mortarmen must not be overlooked within the context of the battalion’s overall training strategy. Unless leaders have a mortar background, they may not understand the distinct training requirements and tactical role of mortars. This ensures
they will allocate priorities and resources to mortars, which are required for effective training. Therefore, leaders may also require training. This can be achieved by OPD and NCOPD instruction on mortars, which include both technical and tactical mortar subjects.
a. Once mortarmen have mastered their own tasks, they must be fully integrated into the training exercises of the company, battalion, or both. Only within the context of a full maneuver exercise can the mortar unit’s indirect fire support ability be fully trained and evaluated. However, mortars suffer from not having a training device (such
as MILES) to simulate the terminal effects of mortar rounds. As a result, maneuver units tend to under-employ their supporting mortars. Despite the current absence of such devices, there are other techniques to assess the effects of indirect fire. (These are outlined in GTA 25-6-7 and Appendix F of FM 25-4.) Fire missions not specifically using enemy targets — such as registration and adjusting final protective fires — should also be routinely conducted in maneuver exercises.
