Manual of Military Training by James A. Moss (best value ebook reader .TXT) 📕

deployment269
Not to be carried loaded121 (First)
Once loaded, so kept until command to unload180
Rules governing carrying121
To strike ground gently in coming to order122 (Third)
Use as single loader186

Pitching tents 684

PLAN:
Of battle preceded by personal reconnaissance394
Of combat, adherence to original373

PLATES:
Battalionnear, 300
Companynear, 207
Equipmentnear, 646

PLATOON COLUMN:
Assembly from254
Deployment253
How executed250
Use in advancing249–252

PLATOON DRILL:
Assembling from deployment248
Column right (left) (company being in column of platoon)223
Extended order242
On right into line (being in column of platoons)230
Platoons column right (left) (company being in column of squad)225
Platoon light (left)220
Platoons right (left) by squads (being in line)227
Platoons right (left) front into line232
Squads right about (being in line of platoons)228
Squads right (left), platoons column right (left) (being in line)227

PLATOON GUIDES:
Close order drill210
Duties in fire fight289

PLATOON LEADER:
Allotment of target to282
Control the fire in deployment270
Duties on fire fight288; 289
Equipped with whistles83
Of flank platoons when company acts alone268
Positions in verifying alignments218
Repeating commands214

Platoon, the fire unit of 287

PLATOONS:
Advance into an engagement249
Assignment206
Designation205
Division of company into204

Point of aim 1357

Point of rest, definition 46

Point on which base squad marches in deployment 238

Points of compass 1084

Poison, first aid 1508

PORT ARMS FROM:
Inspection146
Left shoulder136
Order125
Present126
Right shoulder132
Position and aiming drills1365

POSITION FIRE:
Advance by rushes293
When used438

POSITION OF:
Captain in dressing company302
Load, when taken183
Piece at order123
Piece "diagonally across the body"122 (Second)
The soldier99
Position sketching1889

POST OF:
Band71; 299
Commander in fight383
Color637; 638; 650; 664; 665
File closers in column of squads221
Major during attack352
Major in route order325
Mounted enlisted men73; 76; 78
Noncommissioned officer in command of troops79
Noncommissioned staff officers77; 78
Officers, noncommissioned officers and special units (band and machine gun company) shown in plates71; 72
Reviewing officer617
Special units71; 72; 299
Staff officers73

Powder fouling, removing from bore 1327

Practical instruction, purpose 369

Precision taught by drill at attention 55 (a)

Preliminary drills 1355

PREPARATORY COMMAND:
Arrangements of elements57
To revoke64
What it indicates87

PRESENT ARMS FROM:
Left shoulder136
Order124
Port127
Right shoulder133

Present saber 673

Principles of combat, extent to which treated in Part I 54

Prisoners do not salute 1567

Privates of the Guard 1715

Privileges, awarding 881

Privileges, withholding 884

Program of training 919

Progression in training and instruction 917

Property, responsibility, company 886; 896

PROTECTION:
By reconnaissance410; 412
When battalion is acting alone330
When company is acting alone268

Protection against surprise when company is acting alone 268

PUNISHMENT:
Awarding915
Company882; 883

PURSUIT:
Additional force for483
General principles490; 494
Pursuing fire486
Troops used for487

Q

Quartermaster sergeant (now supply sergeant) assignment at drill 207

Quibbling, avoiding, in interpreting drill regulations 53

QUICK TIME:
Cadence108
From double time111
Movements habitually executed in109

R

RANGE:
Classification275–277
Command announcing188
Determining of276; 277; 426
Finders277
Importance of correct sight setting425
In attack344; 426
In defense426
Signal for announcing92

Range, how determined 1429

Range practice 1386

Ranging volleys 278

Rank, definition 47

Rapid fire exercises 1372

RATE OF:
Fire191; 292; 415; 1419
Quick and double time108

Ration return 909

Ready 189

Reality in training 922

Rear guard, use of machines guns as part of 554

Rear marching, skirmishers, not assembled 173

Rear rank not loading nor firing kneeling or lying down 179

Rear sight, description 1343

Rear, to the, how to execute 118

RECONNAISSANCE:
Battalion acting alone330
Combat403–413
Company acting alone268
Company advancing into an engagement249
Each commander to guard against surprise442
Meeting engagement534; 538
Minor warfare608
Night operations587
Personal before deployment441
To precede formation of plan394

Record of rifles 902

Record of size of clothing 906

Records, company 887–909

Recruits, instruction 97–98; 120; 152–156

Rectifying column, (battalion) 312

Red bugs 1488

Reduction and resignation of noncommissioned officers 876

Reënforcement of firing line by major 359

Reënforcements, size 353

Reënforcing firing line 263–366; 354

REGIMENT:
Interval in deployment454
Lines of communication established by400
Muster655–657

REGIMENTAL COLOR:
Salutes by660
Saluting reviewing officer622

REGIMENTAL COMMANDER:
Action in deployment of division440
Decide equipment carried into action382

Rejoining command after completion of task 390

REPETITION OF:
Command for guides, by captains at battalion drill301
Commands by captains at battalion drill300
Orders, commands and signals83; 88

Report, first sergeant's when company is formed 215

Reports, saluting when making or receiving 75

Represented enemy, definition 56

Requisites of good scout 1031

RESERVE:
Captured position strengthened by reserves492
Commander of troops in action habitually with reserve383
Covering withdrawal of attacking troops489
Deployment to enable withdrawal of faulty firing line444
Enveloping attack461; 462
Fire of position in decisive action438
Furnished by units larger than battalion455
Gives impetus to charge481
How used455
In attack charged with flank protection466
In withdrawal from action547
Machine guns as part of557
Occupying trenches vacated by firing line to improve same476
Of firing line, strength449; 450
Part played by, in pursuit491
Post and strength in holding attack500
Post of, in attack466
Post of, in defense513
Post of, in delaying action532
Reduction of reserve in case of protected flanks452
Regimental:
Ammunition sent from574
Use of, in case of victory383