Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-11-21 | Page 7 | New Drill Schedule is Put into Effect

S DRILL SCHEDULE 13 PUTINTO EFFECT Exhaustive Study of Confidential Confi-dential Pamphlets Will Be Feature. One of the features of n new drill schedule for the Twentieth infantry which was issued yesterday iB a daily school for officers, at which there will he an exhaustive ex-haustive study of the various confidential pamphlets issued hy the war department, giving details of modern methods of fight- . iru? as employed on tho French front. ! In addition, two companies will be given intensive Instruction and work in trench warfare by Captain Henri Bloeh, French Instructor nt the post, and there will he ra-npe. and field firing at moving objects. Tho new drill schedule, which was prepared pre-pared by Major M. Norton, acting lieutenant lieu-tenant colonel of the regiment Major R. J. Emford and Captain .1. U Parkinson, i an battalion commanders, and approved I by Colonel Alfred xla-sbrouck. post coin- mandr, is exhaustive in detail and pro- I vides work enough to keep every unit of the regiment busy about eight hours a ('.a y. r Although the new schedule was only fs-pued fs-pued yesterday, the officers' school feature fea-ture of the programme was put into op- I eratiou yesterday morning. The officers of each of the three battuJions were gathered gath-ered In different assembly rooms and, Tinder the direction of their respective battalion commanders, devoted an hour to the study of the latest confidential pam-rhlet pam-rhlet on musketry. This is the first subject to be given exhaustive study. A week or ten days will be devoted to a thorough analysis of this pamphlet and then another subject wiU be taken up. The new schedule opens the day with bayonet training and bombing from 8 to 9:20 a. m. This is followed by company - drill in close order from 9:10 to 0:50. From 9:50 to 10:50 each day two companies compa-nies are given special instruction in trench work by Captain Henri Bloch, while the other companies practice the mechanism of extended order, combat signals and have progressive exercises in musket-rv. From 11 to 11:45 the officers' school is conducted by the battalion commanders. In the afternoon, from l:lo to 3 o'clock, there is range firing at moving and bobbing objects under the direction of Lieutenant C. S. Ferrin, field firing under ihe direction of Lieutenant IU F. Daniels and practice exercises in patrolling. From 3 to 4 o'clock a school for noncommissioned non-commissioned officers and selected privates pri-vates is conducted. On Wednesday there will be a practice march by the regiment of twelve miles, with full pack. The march will be in the morning and there will be a holiday in the afternoon. Saturday will be regular inspection day for equipment, followed by instruction in signaling by companies. There will be a battalion parade by the Third battalion Thursday afternoon nt :fi0 o'clock and a regimental parade at the same hour Friday afternoon. ; Wednesday and Saturday afternoons i will be devoted to special instruction fori backward men. I