624. Field artillery programme of instruction, etc. (G. O. 71, A. G. O., 1903; G. O. 23, W. D., 1908.) 625. Firing practice of field artillery. (G. O. 152, W. D., 1906.) 626. If practicable, night firing should be practiced by field artillery. (Par. 13, G. O. 152, W. D., 1906.) 627. Instruction of musicians of field artillery batteries to include the proper and accurate delivery of verbal messages. (Page 5, G. O. 71, A. G. O., 1903.) 628. "Coast Artillery Instruction Order.”(G. O. 106, W. D., 1908.) 629. District commanders to give special attention to night drills of coast artillery. (Par. S, G. O. 106, W. D., 1908.) 630. Neither service nor subcaliber practice will be held by a company of coast artillery until such company is thoroughly familiar with all of the equipment supplied for the service of the battery at which the company is to fire. (Cir. 62, W. D., 1906.) 631. The method of making checks in mortar fire direction should be thoroughly understood by every mortar battery commander. If a battery commander does not know of them he is not competent to command a battery. If he does know of the checks and does not employ them he is not performing his duty. (Art. Bulletin No. 41, serial No. 45, Jan. 23, 1908.) 632. What coast artillery exercises are to be concluded by 1 o'clock p. m. (Par. 4, G. O. 106, W. D., 1908.) 633. Who may be excused from coast artillery drill upon approval of artillery district commander. (Par. 11, G. Ο. 106, W. D., 1908.) Also see G. O. 62, W. D., 1908, par. IV, secs. 37, 39. (Pars. 21-26, G. O. 634. Annual encampment, coast artillery. 106, W. D., 1908.) 635. Coast artillery instruction in service of mines. (Par. 123–131, G. O. 106, W. D., 1908.) 636. Infantry instruction and small-arms practice for coast artillery. (Par. 133–142, G. O. 106, W. D., 1908.) 637. Target year for all arms of the service will begin January 1 and end December 31.(G. O. 9 and 81, W. D., 1908.) 638. Supplementary practice season for small-arms firing. (Pages 15, 23, 64, S. A. F. R.) 639. Special instruction in the methods of rendering first aid to the sick and wounded will be given to all enlisted men of the Signal Corps and of the line of the Army by their company officers for at least twelve hours in each calendar year. (A. R., 1438.) 640. Instruction necessary to enable company officers to drill the enlisted men in their companies in methods of rendering first aid, etc. (M. M. D., 329.) 641. The surgeon or his assistant can properly be directed by the post commander to give the necessary instruction in first aid to company officers. (Actg. Surgeon-General, published in Cir. 20, Dept. East, 1904.) 642. Instruction of the Hospital Corps. (A. R., 1432, 1439 ; G. O. 88, 123, W. D., 1905.) 643. The company equpiment of engineer companies is to be used as far as practicable for routine drill and instruction in garrison, as well as for service in the field, the object being to test the various instruments and tools issued to the companies and to determine the necessity for or sufficiency of the various items. (E. R., 412–414, G. O. 2, Office of Chief of Engineers, 1908.) See par. 348, ante. 644. The department commander will supplement the operations of the Signal Corps of the Army by such instruction in practice of military signaling as may be necessary for the public service. He will cause each troop, battery, and company com mander to have at all times at least two available enlisted men able to exchange messages in the Army and Navy code at short distances by flag. (A. R., 1580.) 645. Signaling for coast artillery. (Par. 132, G. O. 106, W. D., 1908.) 646. Proficiency in heliograph and flag signaling will be considered to have been attained whenever, the signaler is competent to send 8 and receive 5 words per minute with the heliograph, and to send and receive, each, 6 words per minute with the flag. (Chief Signal Officer of the Army, March 14, 1895; 640, I. G. O.) 647. Commanding officers are required to provide for the instruction of their commands in swimming where opportunity is available. (Cir. 11, W. D., 1905.) Also see G. O. 177, W. D., 1907, par. 2. 648. Swimming horses. (C. D. R., 483; D. R. L. A., 1100.) 649. Athletics and gymnastics: For cavalry and infantry. (Par. 2, G. O. 177, W. D., 1907.) For coast artillery. (Par. 143, G. O. 106, W. D., 1908.) For field artillery. (Par. 2, G. O. 177, W. D., 1907; p. 5, G. O. 71, A. G. O., 1903.) 650. Information for convenience and assistance of all concerned in athletic competitions. (Cir. 35, W. D., 1908.) 651. Prizes for athletic sports. (Par. 16, G. O. 109, W. D., 1905.) 652. Manual of Calisthenic Exercises (Koehler), Manual of Gymnastic Exercises (Koehler), and Manual of Physical Drill (Butts), are furnished to the army by the War Department. 653. Instruction in extended order drill should not be required of Signal Corps companies. (Chief of Staff, Dec. 16, 1904; 9778-A, I. G. O.) 654. Instruction of machine-gun platoons of cavalry and infantry. (G. O., 113, W. D., 1906.) 655. The machine-gun platoon in garrison, in so far as drill and instruction (except small-arms target practice) are concerned, is an independent unit, under the immediate command of the platoon commander. The members of the machine-gun platoon are normally not expected to receive instruction with their respective companies in addition to drilling and receiving instruction with the platoon, and normally the platoon commander is not expected to attend company drill and instruction in addition to his duties with the platoon, as his time is supposed to be fully occupied with the duties pertaining to his platoon. Paragraph 4, G. O. 177, W. D., 1907, is construed to mean that the machine-gun platoon commander shall have his full organization one day in each week for such practical training as he may see fit. (Indorsement A. G. O., Feb. 17, 1908, published in Cir. 11, Dept. of the Missouri, 1908.) 656. Provisional firing regulations for machine-gun platoons and provisional system of aiming and pointing drills for machine guns of infantry and cavalry regiments. (G. O. 102, W. D., 1908.) LAUNDRIES. 657. Steam, under Quartermaster's Department: Not to compete with private enterprise; may do work for other branches of the Government, when, and how receipts for same are to be accounted for. (Army appropriation act Mar. 2, 1905: G. O. 40, W. D., 1905, pp. 14, 15; and subsequent annual army appropriation acts.) 658. Hospital.. (M. M. D., 292.) 659. Post exchange. (G. O. 109, W. D., 1905, par. 9.) 660. Post laundries may give credit to enlisted men of the command, not to exceed $2 per man per month. (G. O. 162, W. D., 1906; A. R., 348.) Laundry charges are fixed by the post council of administration. (A. R., 316.) 661. A laundry established by private individuals at a military post, under revocable license issued by the War Department, is not a post laundry within the meaning of A. R., 346 (A. R., 348, 1908). (M. P. D., 839-A.) 662. Occasional services to the Government by post laundries, when authorized, etc. (G. O. 253, W. D., 1907.) MAIL. 663. Marking of foreign, supposed to contain dutiable articles. (G. O. 54, W. D., 1904.) MANURE. 664. Of posts is quartermaster's property, which should be used for the public service : 1. For post or company gardens. 2. For fertilizing ornamental grounds at posts, including post cemeteries. 3. In case any is not needed for these purposes, it should be sold at public auction, and the proceeds of the sale be deposited to the credit of the United States on account of miscellaneous receipts. (Cir. 12, A. G. O., 1891.) MARINE CORPS. 665. Detached for service with the Army: Subject to rules and articles of war prescribed for the Army (M. L. 445, 446); rations (M. L. 440, 441); method of communicating orders to marines (Cir. 18, W. D., 1908). MILITARY POST. 666. A military post means a place where troops are assembled, where military stores, animate and inanimate, are kept or distributed, where military duty is performed or military protection afforded-where something, in short, more or less closely connected with arms or war is kept or is to be done. (U. S. Supreme Court Report 94.) MILITIA. 667. Organization of the organized militia in the several States and Territories and in the District of Columbia from and after January 21, 1908. (G. O. 222, W. D., 1907.) MOSQUITOES. 668. Oil for destruction of, to be furnished by the Quartermaster's Department. (Cir. 23, A. G. O., 1901.) NATIONAL CEMETERIES, 669. Regulations for the guidance of the superintendents of national cemeteries, published in Cir. 27, Q. M. G. O., 1905, are to be hung in a conspicuous place in the office of the superintendent of each national cemetery. (Cir. 27, Q. M. G. O., 1905, par. 14.) 670. The keeping of domestic animals or fowls within the national cemeteries is prohibited; nor will they be kept in the vicinity of such cemeteries, by or for the benefit of the superintendents or employees, except by permission of the Quartermaster-General, upon application therefor in each case. (Cir. 27, Q. M. G. O., 1905, par. 7.) 671. Instructions in regard to the cleaning of headstones; responsibility of the superintendents with reference thereto; 80 headstones per day, or 10 per hour, considered a fair average for a laborer to clean, etc. (Cir. 32, Q. M. G. O., 1905.) 672. Directions to be followed in painting buildings, etc., in order to secure uniformity in appearance. (Cir. 7, Q. M. G. O., 1907.) 673. The following will maintain at all national cemeteries : Only one marker of iron or other material furnished by military organizations, secret or fraternal societies will be permitted to be placed upon the grave of any officer or enlisted man interred in a national cemetery; and in case such marker is placed at a grave it will remain there only until the regulation Government headstone or a private monument has been erected thereat, when the marker that may have been set up at the grave as above indicated will be immediately removed and the organization or individual erecting it duly notified. No growing plants other than those placed about the cemetery by the Government will be permitted upon or around the graves, as they increase the cost of maintaining the cemetery, and if neglected disfigure the appearance of the cemetery. (Cir. 3, Q. M. G. O., 1906.) |