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2nd SCR Firing Big Guns

Aug- 8-2009 » Filed Under: 2nd SCR

Stars & Stripes reports that Fires Squadron, 2nd SCR is anticipating fulfilling its true mission as artillerymen on future deployments.

As a result of the military’s shift in focus to Afghanistan, gunners from the Vilseck-based 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment — including some who haven’t fired a howitzer in years — are relearning old skills that they one day might use in Afghanistan but didn’t use in Iraq.

Staff Sgt. Bruce Wiles, a section chief with Battery A, Fires Squadron, 2nd Cav, stood in a grassy field near Vilseck on Monday helping other artillerymen set up one of his unit’s new lightweight M-777 howitzers.

“Artillery would be our main mission if and when we deploy to Afghanistan,” he said. “We’d actually be doing our job.”


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