Part 1 — SYLLABUS.
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PRELIMINARY TRAINING.
Period of Six Days.
Each Day—Fall in, 8:45 a.m., 1:45 p.m. Roll called by 9 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Class, divided in four squads, take turns in cleaning up.
First Day—
9:00- 9:45—Lecture IV., Bombers’ Training, Part I.
9:45-10:30—Make jam-tin dummies.
10:30-10:45—Stand easy.
10:45-12:15—Throwing practices.
2:00- 2:45—Lecture I., Explosives.
2:45- 3:15—Make powder-puffs and jam-tin dummies.
3:15- 3:30—Stand easy.
3:30- 4:30—Throwing practices.
Second Day—
9:00- 9:45—Lesson II., Explosives.
9:45-10:30—Make jam-tin dummies and powder-puffs.
10:30-10:45—Stand easy.
10:45-12:15—Throwing practices.
2:00- 2:45—Lecture III., Part I.
2:45- 3:30—Make jam-tins and hair-brushes.
3:30- 3:45—Stand easy.
3:45- 4:30—Throwing practices.
Third Day—
9:00- 9:45—Lecture III., Part II.
9:45-12:15—Digging trenches in relays.
2:00- 2:45—Lecture IV., Part II.
2:45- 4:30—Digging trenches and saps in relays.
Fourth Day—
9:00- 9:45—Lecture V., with blackboard illustrations.
9:45-12:15—Finish trenches and saps and carry out dummy frontal attack with bombs.
2:00- 2:45—Lecture VI.
2:45- 4:30—Repair and reconstruct trench (consolidate).
Fifth Day—
9:00- 9:45—Lecture VII., Enfilade Attack (b.b. illus.)
9:45-10:30—Make jam-tins and hair-brush bombs.
10:30-12:15—Enfilade attack in trenches.
2:00- 2:45—Lecture, review and oral exams.
2:45- 3:30—Trench practices in passing sandbags and uses of materials repairing.
3:30- 4:30—Throwing practices.
Sixth Day—
9:00-9:45—Throwing tests for range and accuracy.
9:45-12:15—Oral exams. by squads and practice in use of repair materials.
2:00-2:45—Practice in use of digging and cutting tools by relays.
2:45-4:30—Final throwing tests and oral exams. by squads, alternately.
Note.—If instructors are available it is a good idea to work in squads alternately as suggested by the arrangement of Syllabus above.
Equipment and material for school of fifty, period of six days: 1 keg gunpowder, ½ case monobel, 1 coil fuse, 1 packet detonators (100), 36 shovels, 36 picks, 3 pairs snips, 3 pairs wire plyers, 3 hammers, 3 hand saws, 3 hand axes, 3 Marlin spikes, 2 braces, 2 bits (⅜-inch), 1 auger (1⅜-inch), 5 yards cotton, 2 lbs. 2-inch wire nails, 2 lbs. 2½-inch wire nails, 2 lbs. soft wire (stovepipe), 2 bbls. empty jam tins (1 to 2 lbs.), 100 lin. ft. 1 inch x 6 inch common boards, 36 lin. ft. 2 inch x 4 inch scantling, 1 good sized blackboard and chalk, 2 work benches (improvised), 3 boxes fusee matches, 2 dozen sandbags with ties attached, brush wood, cull lumber, bale wire, sods, etc.