Word: combats
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Yesterday afternoon Colonel Applin, who is a member of the British Military Mission to the United States, viewed the close-order work of the Regiment, after arriving too late to see the combat exercise. His chief criticism of the corps, whose work in the field exercise was praised by Lieutenant Morize, was that in the close-order tactics the men showed a woeful lack of that "punch" needed to carry field work through to a successful finish under adverse conditions in real warfare...
...next Saturday afternoon and evening, May 18. The maneuver will take the place of the Field Day previously planned for that date. The regiment will form at 1 o'clock in the afternoon in the same place as for other field exercises and will then march to the Waverley combat grounds, where it will be divided into two forces for combat practice during the evening. Recall will sound at about 11 o'clock at night and the men will march home, as from Wakefield, in regular marching order...
...Combat exercise on Saturday, May 18th, will occupy the afternoon and evening. Battalions will form at 1 P. M. on the road as for other exercises...
This afternoon the University R. O. T. C., organized into two new American companies, will carry out a combat exercise at Fresh Pond before the University Board of Overseers, who are to hold a stated and special two-days' meeting in Cambridge today and tomorrow. The maneuvers are scheduled to begin at 4 o'clock, but the different companies will fall in at their regular places to march to the trenches at 2.30 o'clock...
...Combat Exercises...