He served as a Gunnery Instructor for two years in the FA School and, in the 101st Division, as the Assistant Fire Support Coordinator and Brigade Fire Support Officer (FSO) in the Division Artillery and S3 and Battalion Executive Officer (XO) in 2-320 FA.
He was the Assistant Fire Support Coordinator (AFSCOORD) in the I Corps Fire Support Element (FSE) at Fort Lewis, Washington, and was attached to the 555th Combat Support Brigade as the Fire Support Officer (FSO) during the brigade's deployment to Iraq.
If we could use MLRS against the acquisition, we simultaneously contacted the assistant fire support coordinator (AFSCOORD) in the division TAC (DTAC) to clear the airspace of fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft along or on the launcher-target line.
For example, when the LNO's division's attack aviation has a mission, he must ensure the Air Force knows about the Army tactical missile system (ATACMS) fires for suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD), that the battlefield coordination detachment (BCD) has cleared the airspace, and that the corps fires and effects coordination cell (FECC) assistant fire support coordinator (AFSCOORD) and the coalition forces land component command (CFLCC) fire support element (FSE) know about the attack and are supporting it.
Other command and staff positions include serving as XO for the Forward Support Battalion, Assistant Fire Support Coordinator (AFSCOORD), Div Arty S2 and Commander of the Div Arty Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, all in the 40th Division.
Among other assignments, he served as Commander of Service Battery in the 1st Battalion, 82d Field Artillery, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas; Assistant Fire Support Coordinator (AFSCOORD) for the Division, also in the 1st Cavalry Division; and Platoon Leader in the 5th Battalion, 17th Field Artillery, 210th Field Artillery Brigade, VII Corps, Germany.
