Table 10-2 CLASSES OF FIRE - RESPECT TO THE GROUND b. Respect to Target. Leaders and gunners should strive at all times to position their gun teams where they can best take advantage of the machine gun's beaten zone with respect to an enemy target. Channeling the enemy by use of terrain or obstacles so they approach a friendly machine gun position from the front in a column formation is one example. In this situation, the machine gun would employ enfilade fire on the enemy column, and the effects of the machine gun's beaten zone would be much greater than if it engaged the same enemy column from the flank. Table 10-4 defines and compares the four classifications of fire with respect to the target, and Figure 10-3A and Figure 10-3B show them.