for the purpose of conducting atmospheric soundings and disseminating current meteoro- logical data. Each division artillery has one meteorological section; and the corps FAT AB has two. Thus, a 12-division, three-corps field army has at least 18 met sections continuously processing atmospheric data. Although they are an additional source of weather data, these sections are not trained or equipped to perform weather forecasting. 1-26. Staff Supervision a. The weather services provided to the field army by the air weather service are ac- complished under the staff supervision of the intelligence officer at each echelon. b. Ballistic meteorological data produced by artillery meteorological sections are not classi- fied as intelligence weather data.
DesignationFM 6-121
EditionNov 1967
StatusSuperseded
Pages72
FunctionFires
CollectionHistoric
Public domain (U.S. Government work)