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This is not a direct reply to your post. I just grabbed the last entry, and hit reply. Obviously, a lot of us here were in the Arty. Unless you have seen what well handled, massed artillery can do, you have no concept of the devastation and, more importantly, the continual support in all conditions that artillery provides. Air power is critical and irreplacable. But it is different from, and no substitute for, artillery. The Defense Department is making a huge mistake if it does not maintain state of the art artillery capability for our Army units. As another poster correctly noted, we should be upgrading and improving our Arty capability, not downgrading it. This is not outmoded thinking; it is simple reality. Lots of bang for the buck and neither rain nor snow nor dark of night can stop it.