is Manual in the form of suggestions from a large number
of officers on duty at our military schools and colleges, suggestions
that enabled him not only to improve the Manual in subject-matter as
well as in arrangement, but that have also enabled him to give our
military schools and colleges a textbook which, in a way, may be said
to represent the consensus of opinion of our Professors of Military
Science and Tactics as to what such a book should embody in both
subject-matter and arrangement.

Suggestions received from a number of Professors of Military Science
and Tactics show conclusively that local conditions as to average age
and aptitude of students, interest taken in military training by the
student body, support given by the school authorities, etc., are so
different in different schools that it would be impossible to write a
book for general use that would, in amount of material, arrangement
and otherwise, just exactly fit, in toto, the conditions, and meet the
requirements of each particular school.

Therefore, the only practical, satisfactory solution of the problem is
to produce a book that meets _all_ the requirements of the strictly
military schools, where the conditions for military training and
instruction are the most favorable, and the requirements the greatest,
and then let other schools take only such parts of the book as are
necessary to meet their own particular local needs and requirements.

"MANUAL OF MILITARY TRAINING" is such a book.

[Illustration: (Signature) Jas. A. Moss]

Camp Gaillard, C. Z.,
March 4, 1917.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PRELUDE

OBJECT AND ADVANTAGES OF MILITARY TRAINING

Par. No.

=Object of:= Setting-Up Exercises, Calisthenics, Facings 1-23
and Marchings, Saluting, Manual of Arms, School of the
Squad, Company Drill, Close Order, Extended Order,
Ceremonies, Discipline--=Advantages:= Handiness,
Self-Control, Loyalty, Orderliness, Self-Confidence,
Self-Respect, Training Eyes, Teamwork, Heeding Law and
Order, Sound Body.

PART I

CHAPTER I. =INFANTRY DRILL REGULATIONS=--Definitions-- 24-710
General Remarks--General Rules for Drills and Formations--
Orders, Commands, and Signals--School of the Soldier--
School of the Squad--School of the Company--