The phrase "artillery forward" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in a military context to indicate the positioning or movement of artillery units closer to the front lines.
Example: "The commander ordered the artillery forward to provide support for the advancing troops."
Alternatives: "artillery advance" or "artillery deployed forward".
He landed on Utah beach, Normandy, on D+7, 13 June 1944, as an Artillery Forward Observer for the 230th Field Artillery Battalion.
In recent years, he has focused on issues including disability awareness (he has two grandsons who are autistic) and improving services for veterans (he was an artillery forward observer in Vietnam).
Captain Earl R. Michles, the company commander, outlined the mission and its objective to his artillery forward observer, the platoon leaders, and other selected members of his command group.
Deric (13), who served as an artillery forward observer assigned to an infantry company in Vietnam, speaks hauntingly to that point: "Forty-one yearsincece I came back from Vietnam, but I still have to deal with survivor guilt almost every day…The guys took care of me" and, in turn, he said, "I felt responsible for them".
Captain Dennis R. Vazquez, the liaison officer between the task force and its artillery support, spent that morning aboard Colonel Barker's helicopter, and later claimed that the report of sixty-nine Vietcong killed by artillery had been provided him by an artillery forward observer assigned to Charlie Company.
Captain Medina and former Lieutenant Roger L. Alaux, Jr., the artillery forward observer in Charlie Company, both testified that they knew nothing about large numbers of deaths caused by artillery and that they had no idea how the total of sixty-nine had originated.
Although the bulk of the division's personnel manned secondary defences rearward of the front line to avoid the German artillery, the forward areas had to be constantly patrolled as a deterrent to an attack and to give the impression they were fully manned.
The principal units that have been assigned to TF Warrior during Division Ready Brigade missions, off post deployments, and major exercises have been the 3 6th Field Artillery, 10th Forward Support Battalion, A/3-62nd Air Defense Artillery, A/41st Engineer, A/110th Military Intelligence, A/10th Signal Battalion, and 1st PLT/10th Military Police Battalion.
Among them was the artillery battalion's forward observer, a well-liked, towering marine, Second Lt. Frederick E. Pokorney Jr.
He passed through Khe Sanh and Hue, but spent most of his time in the jungles and fields of the central highlands, serving, initially, as a forward artillery observer, one of the more dangerous combat posts.
Their marriage ended in divorce when he was 3. Mr. Alexander was an Army forward artillery observer in World War II and received a Bronze Star and a Silver Star.
