Talk: Artillery
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Who, in what Army, ever decided that Artillery was not a combat arm? In the US Army it is.
- It is also a combat arms branch in the U.S. Marine Corps. Maclyn611 15:29, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I don't see anything in the page that says Artillery isn't a combat arm (perhaps it's been removed). It shouldn't reappear, since it seems this designation is country-specific. The British Army is divided into three categories:
- Combat (or "teeth arms"). This includes Infantry, Armour and the Army Air Corps (ie helicopters) but not Artillery. The reason for this is that the definition includes the phrase "direct fire" - artillery operates exclusively in the indirect role and hence is not included. This annoys them immensely.
- Combat Support. This, broadly speaking, is everyone who's likely to be shot at but doesn't come under Combat, and this where Artillery end up, along with the Royal Engineers and some other things I can't think of right now - perhaps the Royal Signals?
- Combat Service Support. This is everyone else, in particular the Royal Logistics Corps (blanket-stackers and truck-drivers) and Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (armoured Kwik-Fit) but also medics, pen-pushers and the Mobile Bath and Laundry Units.
There seems to be some inconsistancy on the page. Under types of artillery it mentions Field Artillery as a type of artillery (along with mortars yet further down the article it goes into describing the "Field Artillery Team". Shouldn't this be on the field artillery page (ignoring that there is not one currently)? Maclyn611 15:29, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
