Field ArTillery - US Army Center Of Military History

388 The OrganizaTiOnal hisTOry Of field arTillery
RCTs. See Regimental combat teams.
Recoil, 12, 53, 78, 79, 81, 85, 95, 96, 99, 243,
322
Reconnaissance, 107, 108–09, 121, 149, 184–
85, 219, 265, 280, 287, 312. See also
Aerial observation; Aerial photography;
Forward observers; Ground observation;
Observation; Photo interpretation.
Reconnaissance squadron, 270, 274, 299, 314
Redstone. See under Missiles.
Redstone Arsenal, Ala., 152, 212n9, 216, 218, 263
Regimental Combat Teams (RCTs), 180, 253
5th, 196, 200n25
14th, 196
Registration, registration points, 122, 146n46,
151, 152, 206, 263
Regular Army, 22, 34, 56, 73, 104, 105, 145, 267
and artillery, 23, 30, 40, 47, 75
Calhoun and, 32
and coast artillery, 86, 107, 115
and Combat Arms Regimental System,
257
and corps artillery units, 296
and division reorganizations, 148, 192,
250, 264, 297, 307
expansion of, 25, 32, 43, 53, 106–07, 109
and field artillery, 40, 41, 43, 46, 53, 54,
58, 59, 60, 62, 64, 66, 86, 107, 109–10,
126, 133, 135, 136, 144, 147, 192, 195,
197, 240, 317
and garrison artillery, 58
General Staff recommendation for, 125
harbor defense artillery, 116
infantry howitzer companies, 162
and motorization, 133, 135, 136
and National Defense Act of 1916, 106–07
and National Defense Act of 1920, 126
promotions and transfers to Volunteers, 60
redesignation of artillery regiments as air
defense or field, 294
rotation policy, 268
strength, 83n26, 90, 126
Remotely piloted vehicle. See Unmanned
aerial vehicle.
Reorganization of 1821, 17, 32, 34, 35, 37
Reorganization of the Airborne Division
(ROTAD), 249–50
Reorganization of the Current Armored
Division (ROCAD), 249–50, 253
Reorganization of the Current Infantry
Division (ROCID), 250–52, 259
Reorganization Objective Army Divisions
(ROAD), 259–60
and air assault division, 264–66
and airborne division, 259
and armored division, 259
and brigades, 260
concept tested in Vietnam, 270
and infantry division, 258–59
and mechanized division, 259
organization of, 270
as reflection of “flexible response,” 258
Regular Army divisions reorganized, 267
tests of, 260
Reorganization Objective Division, Army,
Corps, 1965–1970 (RODAC–70),
260–61
Republic of Korea (ROK) Army, 197, 198,
203n30, 228, 240n78, 292, 308. See
also Korean Augmentation to the
United States Army; Korean War.
First ROK Army, 221
I ROK Corps, 200, 205
II ROK Corps, 200
Republic of Vietnam. See Vietnam.
Research and Development, Office of
Scientific, 209
Reserve commissions, 107
Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), 107
Reserve system under National Defense Act
of 1916, 110
Revolutionary War, 3–16
artillery organization in, 3–10, 15–16
cannon, 10–11
northern campaigns, 13
southern campaigns, 13–15
tactics, 11–12, 14
Yorktown, 14–15
Rhode Island artillery, 6, 7
Richmond Howitzers, 137
Ridgway, General Matthew B., 197, 245
Rifled artillery, 37, 43, 49, 50
advantages of, 69, 71, 82
carriages of, 71
converted smoothbores, 51
and counterbattery fire, 71
and James elongated projectile, 53
makes masonry forts obsolete, 73, 77
problems with, 53, 78
Rifles, riflemen (infantry)
in defense of firebases, 273
and employment of artillery, 47, 69, 72–
73, 82
ratio of artillery pieces to, 104, 107, 108
units, 20, 24, 25, 43, 47, 167, 182, 221
Ringgold, Bvt. Maj. Samuel, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42
Rivardi, Maj. John Jacob, 20
Riverine artillery (Vietnam), 278–79