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Comment [edited]: "We trained literally daily back in the united states. Some of it was in the field, but most of it was in an office doing math and etc.. Some of the training was a bit tedious for sure, but it wasn't a bad job at all. We used laptops to calculate firing data of course, but we had to know how to do everything manually. When calculating firing data you gotta take into account so many factors. More than just the target coordinates. There's gun coordinates, gun altitude, target coordinates, target altitude, MVV (muzzle velocity variation) which is the wear and tear of the tube over time (these numbers come from routine tests done on the cannon). We also took into account meteorological data (temperature, wind speed, etc) for every thousand feet. We'd get that info every hour from a weather team at another location. We had to take into account the temperature of the propellant, which we got from the gunline every so often. We would literally take into account the rotation of the earth. We'd also take into account things like time detonation for the rounds. We would tell the gunline what time to set their rounds to, to ensure it explodes just above the ground. We had to calculate the time from shooting until impact. We would tell the forward observers (infantry) 10 seconds before rounds hit the target. If infantry wanted to do a correction ("up 50 meters, down 100"), we would calculate all of the new data and tell the gunline the new deflection (left/right) and quadrant (up/down). Every round shot is manually recorded onto a record of fire sheet. For illumination rounds, we would have to calculate the exact coordinates of where the cannister would land after the illum round ignites in the sky, to ensure the cannister doesn't land on anything important.. This is necessary to ensure the cannisters of the illum rounds don't fall on people / homes / etc.."
