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I was 98CLRU CEWI working for BDE or lower echelons.

Some of my best memories are sleeping on a moonless night on top of my vehicle with one ear on the BN Net and the other on the FS net watching the shells pass overhead. If everything worked out right, some grunt would find a target and report on the BN Net, the FSO would look at it, call the mission on the FS net, then I'd see the glowing shells traverse overhead against the starry sky. I'd hear "splash" then a few seconds later hear the crump.

13F today has a lot more than artillery to call upon. Many of the fire missions in the sandbox are air or GPS missiles. Many missions involve just one shell or missile.

They have a lot of very neat laser-based GPS systems to fix and send fire missions. 13F can find themselves attached to many units other than their deployed Command such as Marines, SOF, or even Iraqi units.