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Originally Posted by johndallman
... Artillery for indirect fire and Gunner for direct fire. Those skills don't have mutual defaults, but there's a case to be made that they should, especially for weapons such as light mortars where training in both modes is provided as part of the same course.
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Adding a bit that isn't from that thread, the British Army used to train the crews of Vickers machine guns to do indirect fire, and it looks as if the US Army did the same for crews of Browning M1917 and M1921 machine guns.
All of these were tripod-mounted water-cooled guns, and could fire for long periods as barrages. Doing this with air-cooled machine guns uses up the barrel life rather fast, so it probably isn't common at TL7+.