Field Artillery Training. 1914

i. The battery leader, or section commander who accompanied the battery

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commander in his reconnaissance, sets up his director in line with the two aiming posts and as close to the battery or its intended position as possible, and selects an aiming point. He then measures the angle between the direction of the target and the line from the director to the aiming point and gives it out as an order to the battery. (_See_ Sec. =123= (3).) He will leave the director laid and clamped on the aiming point for the information of the battery. The dial sight of each gun is set at the angle ordered and laid on the aiming point.