Word: targets
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Theory of Target Practice Captain Bowen...
...thorough in every re- spect. It will include besides instruction in the School of the Soldier, Squad, Company, Battalion and Regiment, the actual construction of trenches, bomb proofs, machine gun positions, etc., similar to those actually used by the French Army on the western front; and also gallery and target practice, bayonet fencing, field exercises, practice marches and manoeuvres. A large corps of topographical instructors have been added to the military department, and each cadet will be taught how to make road, position and outpost sketches...
...official French War films. Beginning next Monday the drill periods will extend from 8 to 12 in the morning and from 1.30 to 5.30 in the afternoon. Each day at 5 there will be a regular retreat formation followed by a parade. By the following week bayonet drills and target practice with sub-calibre rifles will commence
...evening, President W. H. Welcott of Johns Hopkins University, will discuss the formation of the National Research Council at the request of the President of the United States and D. S. W. Stratton, director of the National Bureaus of Standards, Washington, D. C., will speak on target practice in the navy...
...learned from a telegram yesterday that the Second Battalion of the First Antillery Regiment is still at the border engaged in target practice and will not entrain for the North for at least a week. The First Battalion is the only body of troops to have left, and is expected to arrive in Boston about next Wednesday. It will pass through Fort Worth, Texarkana, Little Rock, and St. Louis; from there to Buffalo, and then home by way of Albany and New York. After reaching Boston, the troops will be forced to spend several days at the armory before they...