The FIST is a small group of high speed individuals who are responsible for overseeing all indirect fire planning for the company. FIST is an acronym for Fire Support Team. 2LT Brad Mercier is the Fire Support Officer and Staff Sergeant Edward Hinojosa is the Fire Support NCO. As well, the FSO and FSNCO are the headquarters platoon leader and platoon sergeant. Other duties include Civil Affairs, Police liason, and Intelligence work.




The FIST also includes each platoon's forward observers, or FOs. The FO's are assigned directly to each platoon. The FO for 1st platoon is Sergeant Darrell Taylor. 2nd platoon's FO is Sergeant Travis Stoddard. 3rd platoon's FO is Sergeant Christopher Tobias. Sergeant Tobias has Specialist Ryan Pitts as his radio telephone operator, or RTO.