Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Infantry of the Army of the United States, 1917 / To be used by Engineer companies (dismounted) and Coast Artillery companies for Infantry instruction and training
1917
To be used by Engineer companies (dismounted) and Coast Artillery companies for Infantry instruction and training.
WAR DEPARTMENT Document No. 574 OFFICE OF THE ADJUTANT GENERAL
MILITARY DISCIPLINE AND COURTESY.
Every soldier on enlisting in the Army takes upon himself the following obligation:
I,--------, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the United States of America; that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies whomsoever; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States, and the orders of the officers appointed over me according to the Rules and Articles of War. (109th Article of War.)
The very first paragraph in the Army Regulations reads:
All persons in the military service are required to obey strictly and to execute promptly the lawful orders of their superiors.
Obedience is the first and last duty of a soldier. It is the foundation upon which all military efficiency is built. Without it an army becomes a mob, while with it a mob ceases to be a mob and becomes possessed of much of the power of an organized force. It is a quality that is demanded of every person in the Army, from the highest to the lowest. Each enlisted man binds himself, by his enlistment oath, to obedience. Each officer, in accepting his commission, must take upon himself the same solemn obligation.
Obey strictly and execute promptly the lawful orders of your superiors. It is enough to know that the person giving the order, whether he be an officer, a noncommissioned officer, or a private acting as such, is your lawful superior. You may not like him, you may not respect him, but you must respect his position and authority, and reflect honor and credit upon yourself and your profession by yielding to all superiors that complete and unhesitating obedience which is the pleasure as well as the duty of every true soldier.
Orders must be strictly carried out. It is not sufficient to comply with only that part which suits you or which involves no work or danger or hardship. Nor is it proper or permissible, when you are ordered to do a thing in a certain way or to accomplish a work in a definitely prescribed manner, for you to obtain the same results by other methods.
United States. War Department
MANUAL FOR NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND PRIVATES OF INFANTRY OF THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Section 1. Oath of enlistment.
Section 2. Obedience.
Section 3. Loyalty.
Section 4. Discipline.
Section 5. Military courtesy.
Section 6. Saluting.
Section 7. Rules governing saluting.
Section 8. Courtesies in conversation.
Section 1. The rifle.
Section 2. Care of the rifle.
Section 3. Cleaning the rifle.
Section 4. Uniforms.
Section 5. The service kit.
Section 6. The surplus kit.
Section 7. Assembling infantry equipment.[3]
Section 1. The ration.
Section 2. Individual cooking.
Section 3. The forage ration.
PERSONAL HYGIENE.
CARE OF THE FEET.
Section 1. Definitions.
Section 2.--Introdution.
Section 3. Orders, commands, and signals.
Section 4. School of the soldier.
Section 5. School of the squad.
Section 6. School of the company.
Section 7. Company inspection.
Section 8. Manual of Tent Pitching.
Section 9. Manual of the Bayonet.
Section 1. Principles of infantry training.
Section 2. Combat.
Section 3. Patrolling.
Section 4. Advance Guards.
Section 5. Rear guards.
Section 6. Flank guards.
Section 7. Outposts.
Section 8. Rifle Trenches.
Section 1. Breaking Camp and Preparation for a March.
Section 2. Marching.
Section 3. Making Camp.
Section 4. Camp Service and Duties.
Section 1. Preliminary training in markmanship.
Section 2. Sight Adjustment.
Section 3. Table of sight corrections.
Section 4. Aiming.
Section 5. Battle sight.
Section 6. Trigger squeeze.
Section 7. Firing positions.
Section 8. Calling the shot.
Section 9. Coordination.
Section 10. Advice to riflemen.
Section 11. The course in small-arms firing.
Section 12. Targets.
Section 13. Pistol and Revolver Practice.[8]
Section 1. Introduction.
Section 2. Classification of interior guards.
Section 3. Details and rosters.
Section 4. Commander of the guard.
Section 5. Sergeant of the guard.
Section 6. Corporal of the Guard.
Section 7. Musicians of the guard.
Section 8. Orderlies and color sentinels.
Section 9. Privates of the Guard.
Section 10. Orders for Sentinels.
Section 11. Countersigns and Paroles.
Section 12. Guard Patrols.
Section 13. Watchmen.
Section 14. Compliments from Guards.
Section 15. Prisoners.
Section 16. Guarding Prisoners.
Section 17. Flags.
Section 18. Reveille and Retreat Gun.
Section 19. Guard Mounting.
Section 20, Formal Guard Mounting for Infantry.
Section 21. Informal guard mounting for Infantry.
Section 22. Relieving the Old Guard.
Section 1. Military map reading.
Section 2. Sketching.
General Instructions for Army Signaling.
The International Morse or General Service Code.
Visual Signaling in General.
Visual Signaling: By Flag (Wig-Wag), Torch, Hand Lantern, or Beam or Searchlight (Without Shutter).
Signaling with Heliograph, Flash Lantern, and Searchlight (With Shutter).
Signaling by Two-Arm Semaphore.
Section 1. General Provisions.
Section 2. The Army of the United States
Section 3. Rank and precedence of officers and noncommissioned officers.
Section 4. Insignia of officers and noncommissioned officers.
Section 5. Extracts from the Articles of War.
INDEX.