A man in his fifties, dressed in camouflage, with several bloodstains on his body, his face grimy and restless, he stood before the crowd, impatiently demanding an artillery observer, speaking as fast as a machine gun.
An artillery observer is essentially an artillery scout, or artillery forward observation post, it doesn't matter what you call it, it all means the same thing,
If the artillery commander is the brain of the artillery, then the artillery observer is the eyes of the artillery.
For those advanced artillery systems, mainly those with C4I systems, the artillery relies on just pressing a button with a finger; calculations for trajectory and damage assessment are handled by computers. But for artillery without computers, or before the computer era, everything had to be done manually, using human brains.
