Word: marcheses
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They have had little or no training in fighting procedure, will get it now on a leg-breaking obstacle course, forced marches of 20 miles in five hours, tactical exercises running 48 hours without sleep. Other phases: small arms, infantry tactics, knife wielding, judo and "dirty" fighting.
There were incredible marches, incredible hardships, equally incredible battles. Volunteers had almost no discipline. Early in the war, "the depots and bases filled with whores, sutlers, and gamblers, were already a continuous jamboree and vicious with crime." One Maryland regiment "suffered attrition from delirium tremens." A Kentucky regiment had to...
Replacing last year's Battery X, Battery Z has been created to continue the Department's policy of voluntary RSOPs Rconnaissance, selection, and occupation of position will be carried out in marches to nearby key positions for the purpose of affording members of the Regiment an opportunity for practical work...
Tactical Force. When General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery saw his early frontal attacks on the Mareth Line at Wadi Zig-zau fail, and saw his small flanking movement headed for El Hamma begin to succeed, he said: "Let's reinforce success." He pulled out much of his armor and...
Under the new regime, instituted at the beginning of the first, spring term of the school, the men will receive all their academic instruction in the morning, leaving the afternoon clear for drill calisthenics, road marches, and field work in map reading and similar courses. Instruction for the morning hours...