september - october - Fort Sill

THE FIELD ARTILLERY JOURNAL
belief that in the light high-speeed T-35 tractor with which two batteries are
now equipped, there is a solution, though not necessarily the solution.
Accompanying vehicles, particularly motorcycles, still hamper the mobility
of the battalion. Wheel vehicles have no place in a tractor column unless
present as light trailers, towed by tractors.
For the rapid movement of the battery detail and headquarters groups,
the light Ford reconnaissance car seems to be fairly suitable. But in motor
artillery, as in any other great task, "There is no excellence without great
labor," and a day will come when the motor artillery will go on any mission
that calls for wheel vehicles, the pack artillery on missions in rough terrain
where no wheel vehicles can travel.
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