100 very flares.
    6 S.O.S. rockets.
    2 verminal sprayers.
    1 strombos horn. (gas alarm)
      rubber boots.
      periscopes.
  200 revolver ammunition.
    1 log book.
    1 set maps.
    1 set air photos.
    1 defense scheme.

2.  These are taken over and signed for.  Each dugout must have a gas blanket and some form of gas alarm (usually empty shell case.)

STORES AT BATTALION HEADQUARTERS.

    1 strombos horn.
    2 verminal sprayers.
  300 very flares.
   20 S.O.S. rockets.
  500 revolver ammunition.
   50 ground flares.

[Illustration:  Plate #28]

Conclusion.

The present army of the United States had its inception at Plattsburg in 1915.  The first regiment of the Business Mens’ Training Camp will go down in history as the first chapter of preparedness.

The training camps of 1916, not only at Plattsburg, but at various other places throughout the United States, constituted the second chapter.

We are just finishing chapter three in the officers’ training camps of 1917.

This book brings together the essential points of the instruction given at the second and probably the last of the officers’ training camps at Plattsburg, in such a way that an officer may refresh his memory when he is about to take up with his men any of the subjects covered.

It is hardly necessary to add that no attempt has been made to cover fully any branch of the work.  The bibliography provides for further study and the books in it should be at every officer’s command.

As the war progresses many changes will be made; not only will methods change but some branches now considered essential may be cast aside as useless.

Nothing but work can make the pages of any military book have real meaning.  This book gives what are now considered the essentials of military training.  If it has brought to the conscientious officer points he might otherwise have forgotten to the detriment of his command, it will have served its purpose.

Bibliography.

CHAPTER II.  I.D.R.

   Balck “Tactics” Vol. 1.  Infantry.

   Howell “Lectures on the Swiss Army.”

   Bjornstadt “Lectures on the German Army.”

   “Drill and Field Training” (English)—­Imperial Army Series.

“Instructions on the Offensive Conduct of Small Units.”  War Department, May, 1917.

“Notes on the methods of attack and defense to meet the Conditions of Modern Warfare.”  Army War College, April, 1917.

   Privates Manual. (Moss.)

“Instructions for assembling the Infantry Pack,” Ordnance Department.  Pamphlet No. 1717 Manual of Military Training. (Moss.)

CHAPTER III.  PHYSICAL TRAINING.