Fort Sill soldiers fire rockets with Singaporean allies in joint exercise in Oklahoma

Soldiers from Fort Sill participated in an exercise with soldiers from Singapore, allowing crews from both nations to fire their High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems and practice calling in artillery and aircraft strikes.

 
BY BRYAN DEAN | Modified: November 1, 2012 at 12:22 am | Published: November 1, 2012   

LAWTON — Soldiers from Fort Sill participated Wednesday in an exercise with soldiers from Singapore involving rocket-fired artillery.

The exercise put soldiers from the two countries side-by-side as they fired High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, a truck-mounted launcher that can fire munitions more than 180 miles.

photo - Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Yap, a Singaporean Armed Forces crew chief, explains Tuesday to Brig. Gen. Brian McKiernan, U.S. Army chief of field artillery, details of an infantry carrier. Photos by Keith Pannell, Fort Sill
Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Yap, a Singaporean Armed Forces crew chief, explains Tuesday to Brig. Gen. Brian McKiernan, U.S. Army chief of field artillery, details of an infantry carrier. Photos by Keith Pannell, Fort Sill

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Soldiers also practiced calling in artillery and aircraft strikes and working together with their foreign counterparts, military officials said.

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