title: CROSSFire: Taking the Heat out of Conflict: A conflict resolution guide for Fire Officers
author: Randy T Keirn
description: Randy Keirn is a 25+ year chief officer and a leading expert in conflict training and leadership, both in fire service and in international corporate environments. He is owner of Fully Involved Consulting, Inc.
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  FOREWORD
  
  
  By Jason Schmetzer
  
  
  
  
  
  In artillery, the term “fire for effect” is often used to call for the entire
  battery’s fire after the successful adjustment of fire through ranging rounds.
  Put another away, firing for effect is the ubiquitous “bringing the rain.”
  It’s a term of actuation. A term of established actions fulfilling a defined
  purpose.
  
  
  The anthology you’re holding is called Fire for Effect, because in 2007
  BattleCorps took the new talent grown in the preceding years and let it loose.
  After three years of steady publication and success, we knew BattleCorps was
  here to stay. It became time to let the writers free, to see what boundaries
  they could push or even surpass. It became a time, editorially, for us to try
  new ideas and new models. And it became time for BattleCorps, as a working
  part of the BattleTech universe, to fully embrace the new Jihad timeline, both
  in content and in style.
  
  
  In 2007 Battl