\nHad a phone call w/ my dad that involved me trying to convince him that the “trainfire” concept he was taught in the late-50s Army is a nonsensical artifact of WWI ideas about laying down suppressive fire while moving because “pointing at something with your left arm” is not a valid way to aim a gun on your right hip
realizing the only way this even starts to make sense is visualizing converging fire, so now wondering how much WWII dogfighting became a master idiom after the war
In A New Hope in 1977, the X-Wing’s wings unlock and split to give maximally dramatic converging fire, have you ever thought about that?
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