Firing
Gunnery
Gunnery noun - Guns collectively.
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Firing and gunnery are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Firing" with "Gunnery", this nouns are similar.
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Bush plays the trope completely straight since he can carry on an academic debate on the enemy ship's gunnery while they're firing on his ship.
Source: Stiff Upper Lip - The man who arrives on the station convinced he's King Arthur returned in Britain's hour of need is really David McIntyre, a retired EarthForce gunnery sergeant wracked with guilt over firing the shots that triggered the Minbaris' Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
Source: Pre-Insanity Reveal - The Gunnery Chief in Mass Effect 2 delivers the quoted epic rant against careless firing of the mass accelerator for this very reason.
Source: Stray Shots Strike Nothing
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