Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-01-02
Training Memorandum No. I
For TWenty-Ei9hth Division

Second Section-Bayonets
Third Section-Nusketry- and
Pistol.
Fourth section-Automatic Rifle.
2-Macbine Gun Department.: Heavy
Article Gun Rifle Calibre
3. Engineer Department.: Field F0rtifi-
cations for Line Troops and Pioneers.
T. Department Of Trench Mortars and
Cannons:
First seetion-stokes, Trench Nor
tars
Second Observation-Disclosures Canons.
5. Gas Defense Departments Use
Care and Repair of Gas Masks
b. Scouting Departments Scouting, OBJ
seryatiOn and Shipping
Z. Physical Training Department:
Physical Training and Athletics.
(R) Artillery School
lcl School for stable sergeants and
ID School for Mess sergeants, Bak-
(e) School for Horseshoers.
81 School for Company Mechanics
20 School in Equitation.
Supply Sergeants.
ID School for Clerks
ID School for Saddlers and Cobblers
(K) Laison School
9 School for Bandsmen.
Gm) School for Hygiene and SANTA
ton.
m) Staff Lecture Course.
(o) Visual instruction (Moving Pic
tures)
For the conduct of the courses in above
list OF schools, specialist instructors will
be provided as rapidly as possible from
the central schools.
CD Divisional Schools listed above will
be organized as follows:
(a) By the Assistant Chief of Staff
(b) BY the Field Artillery Brigade
Commander.
tc) BY the Division Quartermaster.
(d) BY the Division Quartermaster.
(e) BY the Division Quartermaster.
(E) by the Commanding Officer Head
quarters Troop
h % By the Division Quartermaster.
ID BY the Division Adjutant.
ID BY the Division Quartermaster
* BY the Division Adjutant
Cd BY the Division Adjutant.
(m) BY the Division Surgeon.
(n) BY the Assistant Chief of Staff.
(o) By the Assistant Chief of Staff
(c) The General scheme for these
schools will be submitted to the chief of
staff in time to make them operative
schools, not now organized, will be or
ganized.
4. Routine administration throughout
the Division must be regulated on the
basis that training and preparation for
active service are of the first Importance.
Administrative duties are the essential
features of military life and are not to
be neglected; but in every legitimate way
they must be Simplified, reduced and ad-
justed as to time of performance, so that
they will not obscure the real purpose for
struct the attainment of this purpose
Commanders of all grades must so order
and arrange that the foregoing princi-
plies are given full force and effect. The
number of officers regularly present at
instruction mTSt be the maximum con-
sistent with the due performance of ad-
ministratiye duties or other duties UNI
aVoidably arising during the time alot-
ted to the instruction or training.
5. 1t is fully realized that in many
cases the requisite material, equipment
and instruction manuals viii be lack
ing either wholly or in part. Every eff
fort will be made to supply these defi-
ciencieS, but in the meantime it viii be
necessary for officers to exercise their
ingenuity to overcome these obstacles and
by energy and determination, carry on
the training of their men in the most
effective way possible 'Substtute' is a
word with which every officer and en-
listed man should be thoroughly famil-
lar.
6. Exactness of execution in every
thing confidence of the men in the arms
with which they are equipped and dis
cipline above all, is a sufficient creed
for this division to follow.
Z. In a recent telegram. General Per
shing remarks as follows: "Close ad-
herence is urged to the central idea that
the essential principles Of war have not
changed, that the rifle and bayonet re-
main the supreme weapons of the soldier
and that the ultimate success of the
Army depends upon their proper use in
open warfare. To this end it is recon-
mended that intensive training in all the
phases Of open warfare be accepted as
the principal mission of divisions before
embarkation, trench warfare and the use
of the special arms being taught in con-
nection with the assumption of the Of
fensive from an entrenched position If
divisions arrived trained to these stand
ards, the cOmpetio nof their training
in the methods of trench warfare may
be accepted as the mission of the traipA
ing section at these headquarters"
8. Particular attention will be paid to
accuracy of instruction and the develop
ment OF good squad leaders. No COM
mand is any better than the squads that
compose it's various units. The interest
of the men must be maintained; this re-
quires that the instructor know the sub
ject and actually be able to instruct those
under him. Periods of instruction COW
ering particular subjects should not be
too long. Rests should be frequent but
short All explanations of movements
will be announced after the men have
been given Eat ease" and never while
they are at attention. The basic prin-
ciples of trench warfare, particularly that
phase of initiating the offense, is of para
amount importance. Every effort should
be devoted to making all units from the
squad and PATTON upward, proficient in
this kind of training.