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fire mission
noun
A communication between the fire direction center (FDC) and an observer to direct artillery on a target.
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"Send your fire mission," the howitzers repeated.
'Crow, this is Crow Baker 3. Fire mission, enemy vehicles.
"We will make a fire mission?" Levi asked.
Fearing an ambush, I radioed the howitzers for a fire mission.
"When I shouted 'Fire Mission' it was as if I were tensing my trigger finger.
Because of Ambrose's reputation, Weiss had sent him a manuscript of his memoir Fire Mission! to help him get it published.
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For the current fire missions, researchers are using Google Earth as their visualization tool.
As a PMC, you can't call for back-up, you can't call fire missions in.
The forward air controller, who liaises with coalition air forces to bring in fire missions, was shouting "check fire, check fire".
This is what makes it an effective wildfire imaging sensor, says Vince Ambrosia, an engineer at NASA ARC and the principal investigator of the fire missions.
The self-propelled 152 mm howitzers and 130 mm field guns were assigned counter-battery fire missions against Israeli artillery.
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