Avoid that point, and fire from as far away as you can!
The rest pulled up and away to avoid friendly fire.
As the men near the German lines, they radio ahead to avoid friendly fire.
The reason for using uniforms was that not all of the team members knew each other, and so needed them to avoid friendly fire.
It is their natural instinct, of course, to avoid fire.
If he had to trade avoiding fire from the Chinese ships to arriving too high to help his team members,!
Coordination to avoid friendly fire is also important in this situation.
There was no way that we could now avoid such fire should we succeed in our task either!
"It's like trying to teach a child to avoid fire by giving him matches."
Care has to be taken when firing cannons to avoid friendly fire.