Now "Splash" is actually used by the FO to indicate he has seen the rounds. It became quite common to count right to zero (saying "impact" for zero). The goal was to get an exact count of flight time. This was a point of great pride for the FDC and a "constant count" was cause for praise in the Division. This evolved from the use of the digital Fire Control in the M109 Paladin HIP. The goal was to be able to deliver fire as fast a possible and KNOW how fast that would be before the rounds went out. This led to certain units beginning to play with "predictive fire missions." This is when a concealed FO tries to call fire on where an enemy WILL be in say 2 minutes from now. We got pretty good at predictive fire.
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