Now if you REALLY want to throw some slop around, considering this is 2000 and at least 30 months AFTER supplies more less stopped flowing, those gun barrels might NOT be in the best shape, which means even if all the computations etc are correct, and the gunners put in the right elevation and azmuth, and nobody botches the mission, the weak link is the barrel. SO accuracy will come in. The mission of at least one of the barrels could go to never-never land, never know where it went and where it landed. (happened to my Dad in WW2, though that was defective barrel not one shot out). Something to think about before calling danger close eh?
As for FO's. As stated every combat arms NCO is taught calling fire as are the orficers. And even lower than the NCO chain can do it in most grunt units. As for all the FO's being dead, which is entirely possible and HoG call, there would be 'replacements'. In our battery, the FIST was agumented by Survey. We could function as a FIST after completeing our mission as survey, and spent a LOT of time observing and calling fire. But that was 20 years before the Twilight war.
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