Reserve Officer Training Corps Manual

Excerpt from The Junior R. O. T. C. Manual: A Text Book for the Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps The R. O. T. C. Needs text books to permit its personnel to avail themselves of the expeditious instructional academic methods in use in all schools, both civil and military, of our country. The War Department, under the press of more urgent work, has as yet been unable to issue such books. In their absence this volume The Junior R. O. T. C. Manual, written by earnest and able officers of our army will greatly aid in the acquirement of a good and quick knowledge of the elements of military training. This volume is well arranged and fitted for both indoor and camp use. The adoption of pictorial instructional methods will prove specially useful to our young men who are accustomed to acquiring knowledge from illustrations. They furnish decided additions to former methods of teaching. The subjects are treated in a clear, wholesome, instructive manner. The doc trine is substantially that oi our best military teachers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

"Intermediate Leadership Development" is the subject of this Reserve Officers Training Corps manual which is designed to be used as a textbook. The individual actions which protect a soldier and make him effective in small units are discussed in Part One. Part Two is concerned with techniques of military instruction and provides suggestions for military instructors. Individual and Crew-served weapons and antipersonnel/tank mines are the subjects of Part Three. (For related document, see AC 012 899.).

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