Word: firing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Stadium was the scene of the third annual rally of the Boy Scouts of Greater Boston Saturday afternoon when over 5,000 scouts, representing 11 districts and 42 cities and towns took part in a series of events ranging from wall-scaling to lighting a fire without matches. Fully 20,000 parents and friends of the scouts were present in the big amphitheatre to witness the exhibition which showed the unusual efficiency of the boys in first aid, woodcraft, and self-reliance...
...Firing at known ranges will start tomorrow, and will continue through Wednesday; the remainder of the week will be devoted to platoon, and company fire exercises...
...known ranges. Each man will shoot the regular army qualification course for his record, which provides for 10 shots at 300 yards, 5 sitting and 5 kneeling, 10 shots prone at 500 yards, and 10 shots prone with a sand bag rest at 600 yards; and also, at rapid fire, for 10 shots at 200, 300, and 500 yards in one minute, one minute and 10 seconds, and one minute and 20 seconds respectively...
After the firing at known distances is completed, the companies will receive more practical instruction in combat firing. In this type of rifle practice squads, platoons or companies will be given fire problems under simulated campaign conditions; the enemy will be represented by suddenly appearing targets whose range must be estimated by the officers in charge...
...course in such service there is more opportunity for accident or fatality. The peaceful are not spared by the blind wrath of artillery fire, nor do submarines pay homage to the Red Cross. Yet such added danger over the surety of life in peace at home will count not at all with those whose faith is so far above that granted to most poor mortals...