Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...regular companies are excused from drill this morning in order to put their equipment and uniform in shape for parade today. Men of provisional companies will drill as usual this morning. C. CORDIER, Captain, U. S. Army, Commandant...
...cadets will study the paragraphs in the Infantry Drill Regulations and in the Small Arms Firing Manual referred to in the above schedule of training. These paragraphs are assigned as the outside reading for the week. Tests will be given later to determine the proficiency attained in these subjects...
Next week the time allotted for practical instruction will be increased to eight hours a day, Saturday inclusive. In the morning drill will be held between 8 and 12 o'clock, and in the afternoon from 1.30 to 5.30 o'clock. Lectures will be given in the evenings by the French officers for all men in the training corps, and, in addition, special lectures will be given to the provisional battalion by Captain Bowen...
...Cunningham is captain of the company and is how supervising the enlisting. The training and instruction of the company will begin as soon as the enrolments are complete, probably sometime next week. The work will consist of some regular infantry drill and some theoretical instruction. Lectures in first aid to the injured, elementary hygiene and camp sanitation, administration and customs of the service, and elementary nursing will be given...
Lectures will start next week, and either a lecture or a section meeting will be held each night at 7.30. The French officers will deliver many of the former, illustrating their addresses by official French War films. Beginning next Monday the drill periods will extend from 8 to 12 in the morning and from 1.30 to 5.30 in the afternoon. Each day at 5 there will be a regular retreat formation followed by a parade. By the following week bayonet drills and target practice with sub-calibre rifles will commence