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US Army Infantry - 11C - Mortarman Embroidered Patch - Steel Rain - Mortar Sec:
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History of the Organization of tLarge US Army Infantry (4 1/2\") - 11C - Mortarman Embroidered Patch - Steel Rain - Mortars - Wax Backing with Merrowed EdgeIn the Army, military occupational specialty (MOS) 11C, Indirect Fire Infantryman, is a member of a mortar squad, section or platoon. The mortar is an infantry unit’s most powerful weapon. And despite its name, the job of infantryman has been open to female soldiers since 2016.It’s not possible to enlist directly for MOS 11C. The first step is to enlist under the Army\'s 11X Infantry Enlistment Option, and during training, you will be designated as either MOS 11B, Infantryman, or MOS 11C, Indirect Fire Infantryman.
The infantry is the main land combat force and backbone of the Army. It\'s equally important in peacetime and in combat.
Duties of the Army\'s MOS 11CThese soldiers perform some of the most dangerous jobs in the army. They fire and recover anti-personnel and anti-tank mines, and locate and neutralize mines in live mine fields. This MOS is also responsible for navigating between points on the ground, orienting maps and operating and maintaining communications equipment.
Indirect infantry soldiers may operate in an NBC (nuclear, chemical, biological) contaminated area.
A big part of their jobs includes constructing and camouflaging weapons in firing positions, including mortars and maintaining mortars, including safety checks. The way to best describe this position is that the solider performs as a member of a mortar squad providing indirect fire support.
More experienced Indirect Infantry soldiers may lead and control mortar squads, supervise and train subordinates, provide tactical and technical guidance to subordinates, and professional support to subordinates and superiors in a variety of roles, including maintenance of mortar positions.
During combat, the MOS 11C supervises the construction of mortar positions and receives and implements combat orders. They’ll direct and deploy personnel, and direct and adjust indirect supporting fire.
Reading and understanding maps is also a huge part of this job; MOS 11C will use maps and map overlays and determine elevation and grid azimuth.
Training for MOS 11CInfantrymen in the Army receive 14 weeks of One Station Unit Training (OSUT) at Fort Benning in Georgia. The training involves classroom and field-simulated combat exercises. They’ll learn weapons operation and maintenance, minefield safety, map reading and navigation, preparing fighting positions and other related skills. Infantrymen in training should expect to participate in frequent squad maneuvers, target practice and war games.
Testing Requirements for 11C Indirect Fire InfantrymanInfantrymen need an Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) test score of 90 in the combat (CO) aptitude area. The subtests for CO aptitude include arithmetic reasoning (AR), Coding Speed (CS), Auto and Shop Information (AS) and Mechanical Comprehension (MC).
No security clearance is required, but you’ll need to have correctable vision of 20/20 and not be color blind.
Civilian Equivalent to MOS 11CSince much of this job is done in combat situations, there really is no civilian occupation that is exactly the same as MOS 11C. However, police officers and security guards are jobs that would make use of the skills developed through MOS 11C training and experience.
Mortars
A mortar is usually a simple, lightweight, man-portable, muzzle-loaded weapon, consisting of a smooth-bore (although some models use a rifled barrel) metal tube fixed to a base plate (to spread out the recoil) with a lightweight bipod mount and a sight. They launch explosive shells (technically called bombs)[2] in high-arcing ballistic trajectories. Mortars are typically used as indirect fire weapons for close fire support with a variety of ammunition.
Modern mortars and their ammunition are generally much smaller and lighter than artillery, such as guns and howitzers, which allows light and medium (typically, 60 mm and 81 mm/82 mm) mortars to be considered light weapons; i.e. capable of transport by personnel without vehicle assistance. They are short-range weapons, and often more effective than artillery for many purposes within their shorter range. In particular, due to its high, parabolic trajectory with a near vertical descent, the mortar can land bombs on nearby targets, including those behind obstacles or in fortifications, such as light vehicles behind hills or structures, or infantry in trenches or spider holes. This also makes it possible to launch attacks from positions lower than the target of the attack. (For example, long-range artillery could not shell a target 1 km away and 30 metres (100 ft) higher, a target easily accessible to a mortar.)
In trench warfare, mortars can fire directly into the enemy trenches, which is very hard or impossible to accomplish with artillery due it its much flatter trajectory.
Mortars are also highly effective when used from concealed positions, such as the natural escarpments on hillsides or from woods, especially if forward observers (FOs) are being employed in strategic positions to direct fire, an arrangement where the mortar is in relatively close proximity both to its FO and its target, allowing for fire to be quickly and accurately delivered to lethal effect. Mortars suffer from instability when used on snow or soft ground, because the recoil pushes them into the ground or snow unevenly. A Raschen bag addresses this problem.
Fin-stabilised mortar bombs do not have to withstand the rotational forces placed upon them by rifling or greater pressures, and can therefore carry a higher payload in a thinner skin than rifled artillery ammunition. Due to the difference in available volume, a smooth-bore mortar of a given diameter will have a greater explosive yield than a similarly sized artillery shell of a gun or howitzer. For example, a 120 mm mortar bomb has approximately the same explosive capability as a 155 mm artillery shell. Also, fin-stabilised munitions fired from a smooth-bore, which do not rely on the spin imparted by a rifled bore for greater accuracy, do not have the drawback of veering in the direction of the spin.