He served with the French army 83rd artillery.
On the next day, 17 June, Army artillery aboard was dispatched ashore.
Control of the new super-weapons (and their sweet billion-dollar budgets) might logically have gone to Army artillery.
Army artillery installed were two 16" guns, four 8" guns and four 155mm pieces.
He was served as a Major in the army artillery where he earned the Bronze Star.
The coastal artillery had a greater effect upon the land war by helping to reinforce the defence in conjunction with army artillery.
Before the French Revolution he served in the naval artillery, abandoning it for the army artillery.
It is used for naval gunfire practice and for army artillery and mortar range firing.
On June 6, 1863, Weed left the regular army artillery to accept a commission as a brigadier general in the volunteer army.
He received a commission in the Army artillery, but in July 1932 began flight training at Randolph Field.