Ace the Army OCS Call For Fire 2026 – Ignite Your Path to Officer Greatness!

The key idea here is how target location is provided so the fire direction center can pinpoint a target on the map. In Call For Fire, the standard ways to fix a target are grid coordinates (precise map references), polar coordinates (range and bearing from the observer’s position), and Shift From Known Point (using a known point and a specified offset to locate the target). Relative bearing, while useful as a descriptive direction, does not by itself give a precise location on the map or a straightforward way to translate into firing data. It requires an additional reference or conversion step and isn’t one of the primary, standardized methods used to locate a target for fires. So the method that isn’t a primary target location method is the one described as relative bearing.