Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-10-16
EXPERIENCE. lM, WAR
IN TIMES OF PEACE
IStaff Cnfresnonience l

IN CAMP WITH THE 1ST sHA-
WAIIAN BRIGADE NEAR JONES'
RANCH, Oct. 16. Step by step, and
day by day, the LIST Hawaiian Brigade
Is getting practical experience under
conditions as near those of actual war
fare as can be had in the piping times
of peace. The field exercises and man
euyers have been so graded and ar
ranged to date, that each day brings
out some special point of military sci.
ence that would apply directly to the
defense of Oahu In the case Of an
invasion.
Yesterdays COMBAT between the in.
yading Reds and the defending Blues
served to point out the Importance Of
careful and extended patrolling, con-
cealment on the march, care in the
selection of defensive positions, and
the difficult nature of frontal attacks.
even by superior forces, on well en-;
trenched infantry. armed with the
modern high power rifle
This problem was set to afford q
| test Of the ability of the Blue com.
mander in taking up defensive po-
sition with an inferior force numeric.
icalIy but on favorable ground for de-
Tense S1f1icient variation in the ter
rain was present to make an incorrect
location of the line to be occupied
easily possible, inasmuch as the al
ways important factor of field of FIRE
is direct result of Judgment in Sc
lection of the trace of the line, as the
actual location is called.
The high ground north of Kaukona-
hua gulch was the section designated
by the brigade commander for the End
Infantry, under Colonel French, to re-
sist the attack of the two regiments,
the LIST and 25th, under Colonel Pen.
dleton, and after hasty but search
ling reconnaissance by Colonel French
In person, the orders were briefly but
lconcisely issued in verbal form to the
battalion commanders. Their sectors
or subdivisions, were definitely point
ed out, and the locations of combat
trains. regimental infirmary and the
commanders own station were with
equal precision announced to the sub
crdinates. The actual location of the
companies within their respective sec
tors of defense was left to the two
battalion commanders designated fol
the firing line
Machine Gun Bio Aid.
The position of the reserve, always
Important, and to which duty the third
battalion was assigned, had been 10
lcated by Colonel French in the real
| of the left of his main line. To the
machine gun platoon, that powerful
aid to infantry, was. given the extreme
4 left of the regiments position. Fhis
position extended at practically right
angles to the main road to Waialua
and was generally of shallow con
leave shape. with one battalion on the
west and the other of the firing line
ION the east of the road While some
what extensive for force no largel
than a regiment, being about 1906
i yards from flank to flank, careful
study of the ground showed that dis
lpositions of the troops with interval:
/ IN the line could be effectively made
The reconnaissance of the regimenta
lcommander was supplemented imIne
4niateiy upon the battalions moving tt
the respective places by those of thu
battalion commanders. This recon
tnaissance was made under cover o
1.-THE support companies from each bat
talion that were thrown out some 60t
yards in the. direction in which thu
tenemy had been reported. -ST
f After the lines to : 4; occupied hat
been definitely located, and the mer
moved into them, entrenchment.
were ordered constructed and theI
i the Immediate front was ordered
cleared OF the underbrush so as II
bring the enemy when he should ap
preach, over a space where no cove1
could be obtained by him either from
sight or from the bullets. This occu
pied space of but "a minutes as re
CARDS selection and location of TIL,
troops. although it is known that &C
ltual entrenching and clearing woult