Due south from the fort and close to the river is the remains of a quick firing battery.
A firing battery was equipped with 12 attack helicopters.
The battalion consisted of two firing batteries and a headquarters and service battery.
Each of the three groups had two firing batteries with 4 artillery systems per battery and 140 (!)
The group fielded two firing batteries with 4 artillery systems per battery and had 140 (!)
A devastating artillery strike in which the firing batteries of several units are concentrated simultaneously on a single target.
This technique uses a precise determination of the time of flight from each firing battery to the target area.
Individual firing batteries train to fire their rounds as close to simultaneously as possible.
Three rotating firing batteries from the 10th, 11th, and 12th Marine Regiments.
The firing batteries began to draw down their equipment as the missile launchers were destroyed.