RATIONS AND COOKING: 

(a) Ration parties from the support and reserve trenches will be made up in complete units, i.e., platoons or companies.

(b) The company mess sergeant will accompany the ration parties for his company and will report his arrival to the company commander.

(c) Great care is to be taken that ration and carrying parties make as little noise as possible.

(d) Cooking if possible will be done behind the front line trenches, and should be concentrated by sections or companies.  Steps must be taken to insure that as little smoke as possible is made by the cook’s fires.

(e) Waste in any form will be discouraged.

(f) Arrangements should be made to insure that soup or some hot drink be available for the men between midnight and 7 a.m.

Each company commander must see that timely requisitions for rations are made and to have no delays at meal times.  Food should be brought up in tin boilers about the size of wash boilers so that two men can handle one of them easily without a relief.  In front line, men send mess kit relayed from hand to hand to these boilers at stations in each platoon or section and they are relayed back.  Sometimes men in the front line are relieved for a few minutes.  Always carry 24 hours rations.

Camping and Camp Sanitation.

GENERAL PRINCIPLES: 

Great care must be exercised in selecting a camp site, but it must never be forgotten that the tactical situation is of paramount importance.

The following principles govern the selection: 
   (1) Sufficient supply of pure water.
   (2) Good roads, but not too near a main highway on account of dust
      and noise.
   (3) Wood and forage must be obtainable.

  The ground should: 
   (1) Give ample room without crowding.
   (2) Have porous soil.
   (3) Have high elevation to make site dry.

  Avoid: 
   (1) Marshy ground and mosquitoes.
   (2) Woods or dense vegetation.
   (3) Ravines or depressions in terrain or dry stream beds subject to
      sudden freshets.

  Water must be obtainable: 
   (1) Arrange immediately where to obtain
        (a) Drinking and cooking water.
        (b) Water for animals.
        (c) Water for bathing and washing. 
   In the case of running water, the point furthest up-stream shall be
guarded for drinking and cooking water.  Bathing shall be done at a point furthest down-stream.

Successful military camping depends upon three (3) things: 
   (1) Discipline.
   (2) Cooking.
   (3) Sanitation.

Discipline means control; it means order.  Nowhere are these more essential.  Confusion is loss of control, loss of time, and loss of respect by the men.

Upon arrival at a favorable camp site get the men off their feet.  Do not wait around.  As C.O. have your decisions made and the work organized, so that each squad will be under a leader.  Keep squads together, allowing none to stray off until the work is done, then let everyone rest except the sentinels.