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Title: Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Infantry
of the Army of the United States, 1917
To be used by Engineer companies (dismounted) and Coast Artillery
companies for Infantry instruction and training

Author: War Department

Release Date: February 1, 2004 [EBook #10908]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MANUAL FOR INFANTRY ***

Produced by Robert J. Hall

MANUAL FOR NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND PRIVATES OF INFANTRY OF
THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES

1917

To be used by Engineer companies (dismounted) and Coast Artillery
companies for Infantry instruction and training.

WAR DEPARTMENT Document No. 574 OFFICE OF THE ADJUTANT GENERAL

WAR DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON, _April_14,_1917._

The following Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates
of Infantry of the Army of the United States is approved and
herewith published for the information and government of all
concerned.

This manual will also be used by Engineer companies (dismounted)
and Coast Artillery companies in connection with Infantry instruction
and training prescribed by the War Department.

By ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

H. L. SCOTT,
_Major_General,_Chief_of_Staff._

OFFICIAL:
H. P. McCAIN.
_The_Adjutant_General._

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. MILITARY DISCIPLINE AND COURTESY
Section 1. Oath of enlistment
Section 2. Obedience
Section 3. Loyalty
Section 4. Discipline
Section 5. Military courtesy
Section 6. Saluting
Section 7. Rules governing saluting
Section 8. Courtesies in conversation
CHAPTER II. ARMS, UNIFORMS, AND EQUIPMENT
Section 1. The rifle
Section 2. Care of the rifle
Section 3. Cleaning the rifle
Section 4. Uniforms
Section 5. The service kit
Section 6. The surplus kit
Section 7. Assembling Infantry equipment
CHAPTER III. RATIONS AN