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Title: Manual of Military Training
Second, Revised Edition
Author: James A. Moss
Release Date: September 26, 2008 [EBook #26706]
Language: English
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Military Training
(SECOND, REVISED EDITION)
BY
COLONEL JAMES A. MOSS
UNITED STATES ARMY
(Officially adopted by ONE HUNDRED AND FIVE [105] of our military schools and colleges.)
Intended, primarily, for use in connection with the instruction and training of Cadets in our military schools and colleges and of COMPANY officers of the National Army, National Guard, and Officers' Reserve Corps; and secondarily, as a guide for COMPANY officers of the Regular Army, the aim being to make efficient fighting COMPANIES and to qualify our Cadets and our National Army, National Guard and Reserve Corps officers for the duties and responsibilities of COMPANY officers in time of war.
Price $2.25
GENERAL AGENTS
GEORGE BANTA PUBLISHING COMPANY
Army and College Printers
MENASHAâWISCONSIN
Copyright 1917
By
Jas. A. Moss
FIRST EDITION First impression (October, 1914) 10,000 Second impression (September, 1915) 10,000 Third impression (March, 1916) 10,000 Fourth impression (July, 1916) 10,000 Fifth impression (February, 1917) 3,000 Sixth impression (April, 1917) 4,000 SECOND EDITION First impression (May, 1917) 40,000 Second impression (August, 1917) 30,000 Third impression (November, 1917) 50,000 Total 167,000Publishers and General Distributers
GEORGE BANTA PUBLISHING CO., MENASHA, WIS.
OTHER DISTRIBUTERS
(Order from nearest one)
Boston, Mass. The Harding Uniform and Regalia Co., 22 School St.
Chicago, Ill. A. C. McClurg & Co.
Columbus, Ohio. The M. C. Lilley & Co.
Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
U. S. Cavalry Association.
Book Dept., Army Service Schools.
Fort Monroe, Va. Journal U. S. Artillery.
Kalamazoo, Mich. Henderson-Ames Co.
New York.
Baker & Taylor Co., 4th Ave.
Army and Navy Coöperative Co., 16 East 42nd St.
Ridabock & Co., 140 West 36th St.
Warnock Uniform Co., 16 West 46th St.
Philadelphia, Pa. Jacob Reed's Sons, 1424 Chestnut.
Portland, Ore. J. K. Gill Co.
San Antonio, Tex. Frank Brothers Alamo Plaza.
San Francisco, Cal. B. Pasquale Co., 115â117 Post St.
Washington, D. C.
Army and Navy Register, 511 Eleventh St. N. W.
Meyer's Military Shops, 1331 F. St. N. W.
U. S. Infantry Association, Union Trust Bldg.
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: Philippine Education Co., Manila, P. I.
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS: Hawaiian News Co., Honolulu, H. T.
CANAL ZONE: Post Exchange, Empire, C. Z.
In order to learn thoroughly the contents of this manual it is suggested that you use in connection with your study of the book the pamphlet, "QUESTIONS ON MANUAL OF MILITARY TRAINING," which, by means of questions, brings out and emphasizes every point mentioned in the manual.
"QUESTIONS ON MANUAL OF MILITARY TRAINING" is especially useful to students of schools and colleges using the manual, as it enables them, as nothing else will, to prepare for recitations and examinations.
The pamphlet can be gotten from the publishers, Geo. Banta Publishing Co., Menasha, Wis., or from any of the distributers of "MANUAL OF MILITARY TRAINING." Price 50 cts., postpaid.
Not only does this manual cover all the subjects prescribed by War Department orders for the Junior Division, and the Basic Course, Senior Division, of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, but it also contains considerable additional material which broadens its scope, rounding it out and making it answer the purpose of a general, all-around book, complete in itself, for training and instruction in the fundamentals of the art of war.
The Company is the basic fighting tactical unitâit is the foundation rock upon which an army is builtâand the fighting efficiency of a COMPANY is based on systematic and thorough training.
This manual is a presentation of MILITARY TRAINING as manifested in the training and instruction of a COMPANY. The book contains all the essentials pertaining to the training and instruction of COMPANY officers, noncommissioned officers and privates, and the officer who masters its contents and who makes his COMPANY proficient in the subjects embodied herein, will be in every way qualified, without the assistance of a single other book, to command with credit and satisfaction, in peace and in war, a COMPANY that will be an efficient fighting weapon.
This manual, as indicated below, is divided into a Prelude and nine Parts, subjects of a similar or correlative nature being thus grouped together.
A schedule of training and instruction covering a given period and suitable to the local conditions that obtain in any given school or command, can be readily arranged by looking over the TABLE OF CONTENTS, and selecting therefrom such subjects as it is desired to use, the number and kind, and the time to be devoted to each, depending upon the time available, and climatic and other conditions.
It is suggested that, for the sake of variety, in drawing up a program of instruction and training, when practicable a part of each day or a part of each drill time, be devoted to theoretical work and a part to practical work, theoretical work, when possible, being followed by corresponding practical work, the practice (the doing of a thing) thus putting a clincher, as it were, on the theory (the explaining of a thing). The theoretical work, for example, could be carried on in the forenoon and the practical work in the afternoon, or the theoretical work could be carried on from, say, 8 to 9:30 a. m., and the practical work from 9:30 to 10:30 or 11 a. m.
Attention is invited to the completeness of the Index, whereby one is enabled to locate at once any point covered in the book.
The author wishes to acknowledge the assistance received in the revision of this Manual in the form of suggestions from a large number of officers on duty at our military schools and colleges, suggestions that enabled him not only to improve the Manual in subject-matter as well as in arrangement, but that have also enabled him to give our military schools and colleges a textbook which, in a way, may be said to represent the consensus of opinion of our Professors of Military Science and Tactics as to what such a book should embody in both subject-matter and arrangement.
Suggestions received from a number of Professors of Military Science and Tactics show conclusively that local conditions as to average age and aptitude of students, interest taken in military training by the student body, support given by the school authorities, etc., are so different in different schools that it would be impossible to write a book for general use that would, in amount of material, arrangement and otherwise, just exactly fit, in toto, the conditions, and meet the requirements of each particular school.
Therefore, the only practical, satisfactory solution of the problem is to produce a book that meets all the requirements of the strictly military schools, where the conditions for military training and instruction are the most favorable, and the requirements the greatest, and then let other schools take only such parts of the book as are necessary to meet their own particular local needs and requirements.
"MANUAL OF MILITARY TRAINING" is such a book.
Camp Gaillard, C. Z.,
March 4, 1917.
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