Blown Away: Field Artillery impacts Army [Image 1 of 7]

FORT BRAGG, NC, UNITED STATES

06.27.2011

Photo by Sgt. Derek Kuhn 

40th Public Affairs Detachment

Field artilleryman with the Battery A, 3rd Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, fire an M-119 A2 howitzer during the Joint Operations Access Exercise at Sicily Drop Zone on Fort Bragg, N.C., June 27. “We have a lot of capabilities with the M-119,” said Sgt. 1st Class Terry Lenord, a fire chief for Battery A, 3-319th Field Artillery Regt., 1st BCT, 82nd ABN Div. “We can drop it out of a plane, and then we just follow it out of the bird.” The paratroopers of the 3-319th conducted crew drills and fired rounds throughout the JOAX even during the severe thunderstorms which rolled through just before midnight of June 26.

• Date Taken: 06.27.2011
• Date Posted: 06.30.2011 10:46
• Photo ID: 422336
• VIRIN: 110627-A-8093K-550
• Resolution: 3974x2839
• Size: 4.69 MB
• Location: FORT BRAGG, NC, US