The Gunner's Examiner

by Harold E. Cloke

4. The artillery in our army is organized as a corps of Coast Artillery composed of 169 companies and 6 regiments in the Field Artillery.

5. A battery of coast artillery consists of two or more guns or two or more pits of mortars.

6. A fire command is composed of two batteries or more whose fire sweeps the same area or adjoining areas; this fire is controlled by one man, called the fire commander.

7. A battle command is two or more fire or mine commands sweeping the same or adjacent areas; this commanded by one man—the battle commander.

8. A mine command is a portion of submarine defenses and rapid-fire guns, all commanded by one man—the mine commander.

9. The number of men required for a fire, battle, or mine command depends on the number and caliber of the guns or mortars or the size of the mine command.

10. The number of men in a coast artillery company is 109; in a troop of cavalry 65, in a company of infantry 60.

EXTRACTS FROM G. O., 9, W. D. 1908.
IV. Seacoast Artillery Table of Annual Allowances of Ammunition for Target Practice and Instruction per
Battery in Commission.

Entries of the first column:
A = 15 pdr. R. F. (all models)
B = 4-inch and 4·72-inch R. F.
C = 5-inch R. F., models of 1897 and 1900
D = 6-inch Ordnance Department R. F., models of 1897, 1900, 1903, and 1905
E = 8-inch rifle
F = 10-inch rifle, models of 1888, 1895, and 1900
G = 12-inch rifle, models of 1888, 1895, and 1900
H = 12-inch mortar, models of 1886 and 1890:
H1 = At batteries to which only one company is assigned
H2 = At batteries to which two companies are assigned
	Full Service Charges.					Additional
						Primers for Drill.
Guns, Caliber	Trial Shots.		Record Shots.		Sub-	Service	Drill
and Model.					caliber.	Primers.	Primers.
	1st	2d	1st	2d
	Pract.	Pract.	Pract.	Pract.
A	3	3	10	10	3000	160	800
B	3	—	10	—	900	225	225
C	3	—	10	—	900	60	400
D	3	3	10	10	900	60	400
E	3	3	6	4	600	60	400
F	3	3	6	4	600	60	400
G	3	3	6	4	600	60	400
H
H1	3	3	16	16	150	100	400
H2	3	3	16	16	300	200	800