The maximum density of a firing line is therefore about one man per yard of front.
The order should then designate the companies which are to constitute the firing line and those which are to constitute the support.
So if his battalion be assigned to the firing line the major will cause one, two, or three companies to be deployed on the firing line, retaining the remaining companies or company as a support for that firing line.
The artillery generally communicates with the firing line by means of its own staff officers or through an agent who accompanies some unit in or near the front.
Therefore, always remember that the safest thing to do is to stick to firing line.
When given to a firing line, the signal is equivalent to fire at will.
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The fire-fight on the line of skirmishers, now styled the firing line, is the centre of gravity of the modern battle.
The object of the purely defensive portion, too, is not merely to hold the enemy's firing line in check, but to drive it back so that the enemy may be forced to use up his local reserve resources to keep the fight alive.
If certain conditions are satisfied the aggregate of the points determined by the functional relations form a curve.
The order should then designate the companies which are to constitute the =firing line= and those which are to constitute the =support=.
When given to a firing line, the signal is equivalent to =fire at will=.
Depth of deployment and density of firing line; companies and detachments conducted to their places by their commanders.
The first battalion of the Twentieth Infantry went into action on the left of the Twenty-fifth Infantry's firing line, and one company, A, took part in the latter part of the charge by which the stone house was taken.
Major McCaskey says the First Battalion of his regiment took a position on the left of the Twenty-fifth's firing line.
If this were brought off it would wash out The Gut altogether as firing line, and that in itself would be a godsend.
Running out from them on both sides towards the enemy lines there are saps, at the end of which we station listening posts at night with wired-up telephone and bell connections with the firing line.
So I left him, and made my way along to a little observing shelter we had made near the centre of our bit of firing line.
As the Rim Rocks lay a few feet outside the bounds of the National Forests, it will be seen that Wayland had stopped marking time behind the law and gone out beyond the firing line.
It was easier sitting smug inside the firing line.
No, Sir, I do not; but I do intend to carry the law out beyond the firing line.
You must also take good thought for your reserve ammunition, and its position and the way it can be brought up to firing line.
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