PRACTICE MARCH OR "HIKE"
Preparing Your Bed
After you have pitched your tent, get some hay, grass, straw, or leaves
and cover the floor. Place one poncho on this, then one or two blankets
on top of the poncho to sleep on, and use the remaining blankets as
cover. Spread the ot...
Miscellaneous
1. Take great pains each morning to make a neat, small and solid pack
and strap it up securely.
2. Don't put your pack on until ordered to do so by your company
commander or first sergeant.
3. Get your pack properly adjusted.
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Care Of The Feet
The infantryman's feet are his means of transportation. If you care for
them properly, you will be rewarded.
1. Wash and dry the feet carefully and put on clean socks as soon as
practicable after getting into camp.
2. Wash out ...
Halts
Halts are made for the purpose of resting. Take advantage of the
opportunity by sitting down at once along the side of the road near the
place where your squad will form when the march is resumed. Remain
seated until the command to ...
General Principles Of Target Practice
The most thrilling experience you will have at a training camp will
probably come when you step up to the firing line on the target range to
fire your first shot. The great majority of new men grow pale, become
nervous, lose the...
Camp Sanitation
In camp you are really your brother's keeper. It is the duty of every
man to keep the camp clean, sanitary, and livable. Constantly bear in
mind that a great number of men are living together in a very small
area; that food is being p...
Marching Rules
1. Adjust your equipment, if necessary, at the first halt.
2. Do not leave the column without the express permission of your
company company commander.
3. Keep in your proper place in the column.
4. keep forty inches from the...
Making Up Your Pack
Immediately after reveille, take down your tent and make up your pack.
Place your extra blankets on the pile with those of the other members of
your squad. Make up your surplus kit bundle and put it in the surplus
kit bag.
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Equipment
During the hike your equipment for living will be limited to: (1) your
pack (things that you carry on your back), (2) a few authorized articles
which are placed in a squad laundry bag (called a surplus kit), and (3)
a blanket roll.
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Water
Fill your canteen each evening, as the water wagons sometimes do not
reach camp before the morning march is commenced. Excessive water
drinking on the march is the besetting sin of the inexperienced soldier.
One swallow of water cal...