Word: gunner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Regimental Commander; A. K. N. Jenson, Chief Quartermaster's Mate, has been put in command of the first plantoon; D. C. Clark, Chief Quartermaster's Mate in command of the second platoon; V. H. Ehler, Chief Quartermaster's Mate, is in command of the third platoon; J. Pokorny, Chief Gunner's Mate, is appointed commander of the fourth platoon...
...series of football games with nearby teams, a large number of men from the Harvard Radio School are practicing daily at Soldiers' Field. Because of the limited time at the disposal of these men for such activities and that closer supervision with more individual instruction may be had, Gunner McMahon, head coach, has but thirty men of a squad of a hundred report each afternoon. As yet the squad has been instructed only in the fundamentals but next week more advanced work will be undertaken...
...Thursday, April 12, the Harvard University authorities offered the Cruft High-Tension Laboratory for the use of the Navy Department in training the radio branch of the Coast Defence, class four, Naval Reserve Force. On the following day, Lieutenant Gawler, U. S. N. R. F., Gunner Dame, U. S. N., and I made an inspection of the premises with Professor G. W. Pierce '99 and found great opportunities here for this work. On the next Monday the class was started...
Arrangements have been made for the instruction of all men in the Yale Battalion in gunner's practice. Every man taking advantage of this instruction will qualify as an expert gunner, thereby winning for his battery 75 points on the Federal rating, and permitting him to wear the gunner's insignia on the sleeve of his coat. The subjects to be taught are: Direct laying with peep and panoramic sight; indirect laying with the panoramic sight; laying for range with quadrant; fuse setting with hand and bracket fuse-setters; assembling and disassembling breech-block and study of material...