Word: gun
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...School of the Battalion, ceremonies, close-order and extended-order drill. In the course in military science the following subjects will be discussed: Reconnaissance, military law as applied to the duties of the soldier, temporary and permanent entrenchments, location and relation of different units, location of field artillery, machine gun emplacements, barbed-wire entanglements and obstructions, first aid, and camp sanitation...
...members of Company A of the University R. O. T. C., impressed by the importance laid by the French officers on the use of the machine gun, started yesterday among the companies of the First Battalion a campaign with the object of securing such a gun for the use of the Corps before the end of the week...
...collection among the companies of this battalion yesterday netted one-third of the necessary amount for the gun, and its ammunition, and it is believed that the gun itself can be obtained before the four companies leave the range. Similar amounts raised from the other battalions would make it possible for each company to receive instruction with this important arm during its week at Wakefield...
Inspection is the next thing to heaven if cleanliness is next to Godliness. The glorified soldiers might be pardoned a desire to flap their sprouting wings and fly away, bright gun and all, in the extasy of their scrubbed perfection. But instead they must wait in agony at attention while one man after another is damned with faint praise, or blasted with none...
...hope of every private, lofty or low, is that the inspecting officer may drop a gun and some bold captain place on him the duty of guarding stacks...