Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...complete military course in the form of pictures. They cover the School of the Soldier giving special attention to the Manual of Arms; they show the rifle and all of its parts, and illustrate in a manner which is easily understood by the novice the correct way to shoot it. The charts have been made up by Lieutenant-Colonel George S. Simonds, U. S. A., who was for several years the Senior Tactical Officer at West Point, where his "Military Primer" is used as a text book. He is now adjutant of a Regular Army Division in France...
...Military training means training a man to use that part of him which lies above his eyebrows: he must be more than a mere mark for the enemy to shoot at; he must be able to lead movements against the enemy," said President Lowell at the military mass meeting in the New Lecture Hall last night. "Why is it worth while to men here? It is worth while to the men with previous experience because they want to make sure of as high commissions as they canget from future federal training camps to the third of which men who were...
...with no casualties. In so far as the top sergeants could check up, the companies were in possession of the normal number of ears and digits, manual and pedal. In spite of their being armed--perhaps because of it--with rifles which the instructors graphically said were made to shoot around corners, the men made decently presentable scores. If the targets had been a regiment of Prussians, it is to be presumed that such shooting would have been at least sufficient to knock the spikes from their helmets...
...Second Battalion leaves today to assume the First's cots, tents and rifle ranges. It is to be presumed that it will shoot with equal accuracy, consume its allotted rations with equal relish, and call out the corporal of the guard when on sentry duty with equal zeal...
...range the first part of the time will be spent in shooting at 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...