text: Appendix A
  Table A-8. Essential Field Artillery Task Example
  Essential Field Artillery Task
  Task: must include the desired___________ (effect) on the enemy formation. (Degrade, disrupt, delay, destroy,
  neutralize, suppress, and obscure) (formation size – platoon, company, battalion, or number of systems)
  *** Special munitions (precision, smoke) (derived from the method of essential fire support task)
  Purpose: Task and purpose from essential fire support task. (Task can be written verbatim or summarized)
  Method: Tell the story.
  Priority: Field artillery priority of fire and field artillery priority of survey. (Survey can be technical, manual, or it can
  include other units and delivery assets.)
  Allocation: Command post (support relationship), battery (support relationship), weapons locating radar, survey, field
  artillery task.
  *Movement: routes, triggers, order of march, release points, start points, check points. In-place ready to observe, in-
  place ready to fire, time of movement (no earlier than, not later than) position area for artillery, azimuth of fire.
  *Targets: Special munitions, priority and alternate shooters, attitudes and width, type of ammunition, target number and
  location, triggers, final protective fires, priority targets. Other: radar zones, survey control points.
  Restrictions: Fire support coordination measures, survivability movement criteria, ammunition constraints. Other
  considerations, such as target dwell times, special munition approval authority.
  Effects: Quantification of field artillery task (number of enemy systems destroyed), and positioning of field artillery
  units at the end of phase.
  A-21. An EFAT is defined as a task that the FA must accomplish in order to achieve an EFST in the supported
  commander's OPORD. Those EFSTs that do not have "FA" as the method are not EFATs. A fully developed
  EFAT has a task, purpose, method, and effects. The task describes the effects of the fires against a specific
  enemy formation in terms of degrade, disrupt, delay, destroy, neutralize, and suppress it can also include
  obscure or fire SEAD. The purpose must clearly tie the EFAT to the EFST it supports. It is a statement of the
  EFST task and purpose. The method is a concise statement of how the EFAT will be accomplished. Tell the
  "story" of what must be done to complete the EFAT. This entails describing priorities of fire and survey;
  position areas and routes to them; azimuths of fire; target numbers, priority targets and FPFs; radar zones;
  triggers for movement and survivability move criteria; FSCMs. These are referred to as Priorities, Allocations
  and Restrictions. The effect is a description of what success will look like: As much as possible, quantify the
  effect as an observable result. Describe the location of the firing elements to include will the firing unit move
  after executing the task.
  A-22. After being assigned the EFST, the commander would give the staff planning guidance to include
  planning guidance for fires: "FSCOORD use fires to delay from 2100Z18Augxx until 0500Z19Augxx the
  enemy movement along route RED to prevent enemy forces from interfering with the wet gap crossing". The
  FSCOORD and FSE planners using the OPORD then develop tasks to subordinate FA units. See table A-7
  on page A-9, for an example of an EFAT.
  A-23. The commander determines the desired effect for each target. Effects can be created by selection of
  the appropriate weapon system, number and type of munitions fired and the method used to engage a target.
  Commanders analyze mission variables of METT-TC (I) to create effects using a range of capabilities to
  destroy, disrupt, neutralize, interdict, and suppress enemy forces.
  A-24. In planning for EFATs, the FSCOORD considers the elements of the task - the task description itself,
  its purpose, and the desired effect. Task describes the objectives that fires must achieve against a specific
  enemy capability. The task has three parts: targeting objective, enemy formation, and function. Disrupt,
  delay, and destroy are all examples of objectives. Formation is the size of the threat, and function is the
  capability of this threat to achieve its task and purpose.