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Sections.--Manual for Commanders of Infantry Platoons, pp. 9-15; Infantry Drill Regulations, School of the Battalion, Combat Principles...
According to a report received in this country from Paris yesterday, D. E. Putnam '20, of Brookline, an aviator in the French Army, shot down a German airplane in a battle on January 19. No details of the combat were given...
Every attempt to combine military training with sports deserves encouragement. At present, two distinct movements are being started to accomplish this bayonet combat and rifle practice. In both of these the keenness of athletic competition can be used to further development in the arts of war. Recreation and exercise are by no means checked, but rather turned in such a direction as to be more useful at the present time. As most of us must learn before long how to handle a bayonet, we can have no better chance to become practiced in the art than now. Not only...
...idea of romance in war is closely associated with single combat and justly so. There is something splendid about two individuals facing one another; certainly much more than in hordes of men joining battle. There are surely many heroic encounters taking place in the infantry, but we cannot hear of these so easily. Aviation at present is a service where single combat must be the feature. Our peculiar interest in it may be the result of its infancy, for the new holds much charm for us. And yet trench fighting does not thrill us in the same way, in spite...
...many details which the war has brought to the fore. It is now easy to conceive what the worth of a general taking up of the sport throughout the country would be. It would mean scores of expert shots just so much further along in their training for combat. Though rifle teams and gun clubs use small calibre weapons, it is with these that the soldier is given his first and fundamental training, "gallery practice." Expertness with a sub-calibre rifle on a college rifle team would put a man through this training even before he had entered actual military...