Manual of Military Training / Second, Revised Edition

by James A. Moss

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PREFATORY

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 unit—it is the foundation rock upon which an army is built—and 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.

[PRELUDE.]	The Object and Advantages of Military Training.
[PART I.]	Drills, Exercises, Ceremonies, and Inspections.
[PART II.]	Company Command.
[PART III.]	Miscellaneous Subjects Pertaining to Company Training and Instruction.
[PART IV.]	Rifle Training and Instruction.
[PART V.]	Health and Kindred Subjects.
[PART VI.]	Military Courtesy and Kindred Subjects.
[PART VII.]	Guard Duty.
[PART VIII.]	Military Organization.
[PART IX.]	Map Reading and Sketching.