Word: outposts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...actually used by the French Army on the western front; and also gallery and target practice, bayonet fencing, field exercises, practice marches and manoeuvres. A large corps of topographical instructors have been added to the military department, and each cadet will be taught how to make road, position and outpost sketches...
...hour examination for the different sections will include the following: Sections 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 25, 28 and 32. An Outpost Problem. Visibility Problems (military map reading). Sections 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31 and 33. Questions--Infantry Drill Regulations. Visibility Problems (military map reading...
...immediately, for without officers even the rudiments of drill and organization cannot be carried through. Right there, as the experience of other countries in the war has shown, would be our most stupendous problem. Even a lieutenant, cannot be trained in minor tactics, map reading, entrenchment methods, range-finding, outpost duties, company drill, and so forth, in less than three months, yet how can we hope to train an army without first training its officers...