Infantry Drills

Section II – Combat Techniques of Fire



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F-15. This section is designed to illustrate the characteristics of machine gun fire, the types of enemy targets engaged, and how to apply machine gun fire on those enemy targets.

F-16. Read the appropriate field manual as shown in table F-1 (page F-2) for more weapon-specific information on engaging enemy targets with a particular machine gun.

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