Manual of Military Training - James A. Moss (read dune .TXT) 📗
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Not to be carried loaded121 (First)
Once loaded, so kept until command to unload180
Rules governing carrying121
To strike ground gently in coming to order122 (Third)
Use as single loader186
Pitching tents 684
PLAN:
Of battle preceded by personal reconnaissance394
Of combat, adherence to original373
PLATES:
Battalionnear, 300
Companynear, 207
Equipmentnear, 646
PLATOON COLUMN:
Assembly from254
Deployment253
How executed250
Use in advancing249–252
PLATOON DRILL:
Assembling from deployment248
Column right (left) (company being in column of platoon)223
Extended order242
On right into line (being in column of platoons)230
Platoons column right (left) (company being in column of squad)225
Platoon light (left)220
Platoons right (left) by squads (being in line)227
Platoons right (left) front into line232
Squads right about (being in line of platoons)228
Squads right (left), platoons column right (left) (being in line)227
PLATOON GUIDES:
Close order drill210
Duties in fire fight289
PLATOON LEADER:
Allotment of target to282
Control the fire in deployment270
Duties on fire fight288; 289
Equipped with whistles83
Of flank platoons when company acts alone268
Positions in verifying alignments218
Repeating commands214
Platoon, the fire unit of 287
PLATOONS:
Advance into an engagement249
Assignment206
Designation205
Division of company into204
Point of aim 1357
Point of rest, definition 46
Point on which base squad marches in deployment 238
Points of compass 1084
Poison, first aid 1508
PORT ARMS FROM:
Inspection146
Left shoulder136
Order125
Present126
Right shoulder132
Position and aiming drills1365
POSITION FIRE:
Advance by rushes293
When used438
POSITION OF:
Captain in dressing company302
Load, when taken183
Piece at order123
Piece "diagonally across the body"122 (Second)
The soldier99
Position sketching1889
POST OF:
Band71; 299
Commander in fight383
Color637; 638; 650; 664; 665
File closers in column of squads221
Major during attack352
Major in route order325
Mounted enlisted men73; 76; 78
Noncommissioned officer in command of troops79
Noncommissioned staff officers77; 78
Officers, noncommissioned officers and special units (band and machine gun company) shown in plates71; 72
Reviewing officer617
Special units71; 72; 299
Staff officers73
Powder fouling, removing from bore 1327
Practical instruction, purpose 369
Precision taught by drill at attention 55 (a)
Preliminary drills 1355
PREPARATORY COMMAND:
Arrangements of elements57
To revoke64
What it indicates87
PRESENT ARMS FROM:
Left shoulder136
Order124
Port127
Right shoulder133
Present saber 673
Principles of combat, extent to which treated in Part I 54
Prisoners do not salute 1567
Privates of the Guard 1715
Privileges, awarding 881
Privileges, withholding 884
Program of training 919
Progression in training and instruction 917
Property, responsibility, company 886; 896
PROTECTION:
By reconnaissance410; 412
When battalion is acting alone330
When company is acting alone268
Protection against surprise when company is acting alone 268
PUNISHMENT:
Awarding915
Company882; 883
PURSUIT:
Additional force for483
General principles490; 494
Pursuing fire486
Troops used for487
Quartermaster sergeant (now supply sergeant) assignment at drill 207
Quibbling, avoiding, in interpreting drill regulations 53
QUICK TIME:
Cadence108
From double time111
Movements habitually executed in109
RANGE:
Classification275–277
Command announcing188
Determining of276; 277; 426
Finders277
Importance of correct sight setting425
In attack344; 426
In defense426
Signal for announcing92
Range, how determined 1429
Range practice 1386
Ranging volleys 278
Rank, definition 47
Rapid fire exercises 1372
RATE OF:
Fire191; 292; 415; 1419
Quick and double time108
Ration return 909
Ready 189
Reality in training 922
Rear guard, use of machines guns as part of 554
Rear marching, skirmishers, not assembled 173
Rear rank not loading nor firing kneeling or lying down 179
Rear sight, description 1343
Rear, to the, how to execute 118
RECONNAISSANCE:
Battalion acting alone330
Combat403–413
Company acting alone268
Company advancing into an engagement249
Each commander to guard against surprise442
Meeting engagement534; 538
Minor warfare608
Night operations587
Personal before deployment441
To precede formation of plan394
Record of rifles 902
Record of size of clothing 906
Records, company 887–909
Recruits, instruction 97–98; 120; 152–156
Rectifying column, (battalion) 312
Red bugs 1488
Reduction and resignation of noncommissioned officers 876
Reënforcement of firing line by major 359
Reënforcements, size 353
Reënforcing firing line 263–366; 354
REGIMENT:
Interval in deployment454
Lines of communication established by400
Muster655–657
REGIMENTAL COLOR:
Salutes by660
Saluting reviewing officer622
REGIMENTAL COMMANDER:
Action in deployment of division440
Decide equipment carried into action382
Rejoining command after completion of task 390
REPETITION OF:
Command for guides, by captains at battalion drill301
Commands by captains at battalion drill300
Orders, commands and signals83; 88
Report, first sergeant's when company is formed 215
Reports, saluting when making or receiving 75
Represented enemy, definition 56
Requisites of good scout 1031
RESERVE:
Captured position strengthened by reserves492
Commander of troops in action habitually with reserve383
Covering withdrawal of attacking troops489
Deployment to enable withdrawal of faulty firing line444
Enveloping attack461; 462
Fire of position in decisive action438
Furnished by units larger than battalion455
Gives impetus to charge481
How used455
In attack charged with flank protection466
In withdrawal from action547
Machine guns as part of557
Occupying trenches vacated by firing line to improve same476
Of firing line, strength449; 450
Part played by, in pursuit491
Post and strength in holding attack500
Post of, in attack466
Post of, in defense513
Post of, in delaying action532
Reduction of reserve in case of protected flanks452
Regimental:
Ammunition sent from574
Use of, in case of victory383
Respect, factor in training 929
Respect for sentinels 1577
Respect to noncommissioned officers 1525
Responsibility, devolution of 869
Responsibility for proper training 921
Rest, executed as without arms 121 (Fifth)
Rests, the 100; 101; 121
"1. Resume 2. March" 63
Retained copies of rolls, etc., company 899
Retiring under fire 475
Return saber 679
Reveille and retreat gun 1837
Reverse slopes 1427
Revetments 1124; 1125; 1166
REVIEWS:
Band623; 624
Battalion631–633
Battalions, after passing reviewing officer628
Brigades, or larger commands628; 629
Cadence at which troops pass in review627
Commander faces command614
Flank to pass 12 paces from reviewing officer617
Flourishes624
Formation of companies, battalions and regiments616
General rules617–630
March, played as honor624
National air, playing as honor624
Order in which troops are arranged614
Passing around line618; 631
Points where column changes direction617
Post of reviewing officer on left of column626
Post of reviewing officer and others617
Reviewing officer returns only salute of commanding officer618
Reviewing officer, post617
Reviewing officer junior to commanding officer630
Riding around troops618
Ruffles524
Salute by regimental color622
Salute returned by reviewing officer618
Salute by lieutenant colonel615
Saluting by staff615; 619
Saluting the color618
Standing "at ease" etc., in case of brigade or larger command629
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