U.S. Army • M109A6 Paladin Howitzers • Poland, Oct 2025 - video Dailymotion

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US Military #News – U.S. Army Capt. Dolan Walsh, commander of Bravo Battery, 1st Battalion, 5th Field Artillery Regiment, Task Force Iron, interviews after an M109A6 Paladin howitzer Table VI certification at Orzysz Training Area, Poland, Oct. 3, 2025. During the live-fire exercise,  Paladins engaged targets over 15 kilometers away from the firing point. Task force Iron’s mission is to engage in multinational training and exercises across the continent to increase lethality while strengthening partnerships with #nato allies and regional security partners. The task force provides combat-credible forces to V crops, America’s only forward-deployed crops in Europe. #usarmy  “The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement.”  Credit to : U.S. Army National Guard photo by Spc. Dakota Bradford  Credit to : US Military Channel

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00:00My name is Captain Dolan Walsh. I'm the commander of Bravo Battery 15FA. We're

00:09attached to the Ford Land Forces Battle Group. We are in BPTA Poland. All right,

00:15so what we got going on here today, we got section qualifications for our

00:19howitzers. We got two of our battery FECs and we got our we got three

00:29CAV in support of the observer plan at the tower. We are here to qualify both

00:37FDCs and all all five of our section chiefs. NATO is supporting us with

00:43British Q50 radars and to get out here to the firing point we had three BEVS

00:51engineer company conduct route clearance with the dozer. These are the Mike 109

00:59Alpha 7 Paladin. It is a 75,000 pound howitzer and it fires 155 millimeter

01:06rounds. They're about a hundred pounds around. We're firing four square Mike 7905

01:13HE. Yeah, so we got we have one of our PLS is out here to carry our ammunition and we

01:20have both of our platoon sergeants. We call them smokes and we have two gunnery

01:25sergeants and we call them gunnies. They're in charge of ensuring the howitzers are

01:31big three certified before they can fire. We're here to support the Ford Land

01:35Forces Battle Group. Out here today our end state is to qualify five section chiefs

01:42and to fire 304 total rounds. All right, my name is Captain Dolan Walsh. I'm the

01:47commander of Bravo Battery 15FA, Bonecrusher 6.

U.S. Army • M109A6 Paladin Howitzers • Poland, Oct 2025

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