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fire support

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noun

  1. support given by artillery and aircraft to infantry and armored vehicles.


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He served as a fire support team commander in the 4th Regiment Royal Artillery.

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2026

He is a joint fire support specialist assigned to the 75th Ranger Regiment, said Lt.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 21, 2023

Struthers served in the Army Reserve from November 1989 to March 2001 as a material handling specialist and as a fire support specialist in the active-duty Army from March 2001 to December 2002.

From Washington Post • Mar. 5, 2022

The center says more than 25,000 firefighters and fire support personnel are spread out across the Western U.S. fighting 56 large uncontained wildfires, 21 of them in Montana and 17 in Oregon.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2017

We were getting fire support from Tam Ky, and there was no response from the hill we were supposed to be moving onto.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers

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