Fire discipline lost or replaced in transition

The Gunners bible

I am not sure if it is me only or everybody else. I can remember things of the past, way in the past but not of things in the immediate past. I cannot remember most things in my life say in the past 10 years, but I remember most things 30, 40, 50 years ago. Quite vividly too. 

When I recalled my first lessons in fire discipline in 1965 during our first adhoc inhouse YO course with Dato Jaafar Mohammed in 1 ARTY, every memory came back flawlessly. Beautiful thoughts and all things nice.

I remembered so many fire discipline commands not used today, lost in transition or replaced. Some simply not in use nor practiced because we would not encounter those circumstances that needed those specific fire disciplines.

Fire discipline is the explicit and precise language of gunnery, spoken and executed precisely by the OPO, GPO and gun numbers. This is the language of fire control.There can be no variations of thoughts and meanings. It has to be exact. There are no grey areas. However conventions could be included so long as these conventions are enforced applications to suit local situations. And there are many conventions too, discussed and set by our own conventions of IGs.

Do you remember any of the fire discipline below?

Repeat

Used by the OPO for another repeated round at the same bearing and elevation. Not to be used to repeat a scale.

Search and sweep

Used by OPO to produce an effective spread of fire without artificially increasing the size of the beaten zone. Sweep. To spread the round by the amount in metres. Rounds are fired left and right of the line of fire. Search is the amount of range in metres ( to the nearest 50 metres)  along the line of fire.

Scale

A method of fire by the OPO for concentrations at regimental or higher level to provide a certain quantity of rounds for fire for effect. Scale is not an executive order to fire. Scale is not used by the GPO.

Stand easy

Order by the GPO to terminate a shoot. Now end of mission.

Stand fast. 

Now stop by safety.

Salvo ranging

OPO orders salvo ranging when ranging is required from more than one gun. The charge used is reported to the OPO.

Fire by order.

From OPO or GPO. Now at my command.

Clinometer laying

Used by the GPO to the OPO when the gun was layed using quardrant elevation

Prematures

Bore/muzzle/flight prematures will be reported by GPO to OPO.

Stop and Go on

Stop and go on is ordered by OPO to correct a mistake entailing the firing the gun.

Gun loaded gun hot

Reported by GPO to OPO when round is loaded in gun for too long and may be hot. OPO orders to empty the gun as appropriate.

Wrong

OPO informing GPO of a mistake made. Wrong is followed by giving the correct order. Not used by the GPO.

Bad ram

Reported by GPO for guns loaded by the ram rod when the round was incorectly loaded.GPO does not fire the round. OPO fires the bad ram round with a safe correction.

Report stand by

Ordered by the OPO to the GPO. GPO will report stand by 5 seconds before fall of shot. Stand by is  also normally cued by the OP Ack.

Any old Gunner can remember any more unique fire disciplines to include here in?

Take care lest we forget

Allen Lai