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fire step
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A step or platform dug into the front side of a military trench so that soldiers could stand on it and fire over the parapet.
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"If you're going to step into the fire, step into the fire, huh?" said Acevedo, who had 28 saves for Detroit in 2002.
Within the trench are firing positions along a raised forward step called a fire step, and duckboards are placed on the often muddy bottom of the trench to provide secure footing.
Mackay took up a position on a fire step, a raised part of the trench floor which allows men to fire over the top.
The trenches varied in depth, but they were usually about four or five feet deep, or in areas with a high water table a wall of sandbags would be built to allow the defenders to stand upright, fire trenches were provided with a fire step, so the occupants could return fire during an attack (see diagram).
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But when the ultra right-wing evangelical church Catch the Fire stepped up to provide a venue, it was too much to stomach for the politicians scheduled to speak, including the anti-abortion campaigner and Victorian upper house Liberal member Bernie Finn, the federal government social services minister, Kevin Andrews, and the Victorian attorney general, Robert Clark.
However, the trenches had no fire steps and the weapons pits lacked overhead cover.
Casualties among the first wave of attackers were "relatively light" as the defenders in the front line of Ottoman trenches were still sheltering from the preliminary bombardment and had not had time to return to their fire steps after it had been lifted.
After the Ag electrode is screen printed, a firing step is taken.
At each firing step, the neuron output is set to 1 when the internal activity is greater than the threshold ; otherwise the output is set to 0: (12).
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