Oops!!! Bet he got sent back to remedial artillery school ;-)
IIRC, it was the forward observers who messed up. You don’t call for more “Fire for effect” rounds when no single round hits near the target. Sugar Loaf range has several distant observation points from which impact can be observed. BTW, it was four rounds, not 6 or 9.
http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=002ReF