The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-03
STUDY COURSES
WILL FEATURE
WINTER SEASON
Development of All Troops in
Discipline and Tactical
Training Aim
PLAN SPECIAL STUDIES
Skating Rink and Bowling Al.
leys Will BE Entertainment
Features

Fort Lincoln will hum with &C.
tivity this winter, if schedules made
by officers in charge of the various
divisions can be taken as any indi-
cation.
With = varied program Of sports,
work, entertainment and educational
endeavor, the indications nre for a
busy season.
The program is already unaer
way, started with an educational
program for non-commissioned off
GERS, enlisted men and the officers
themselves according TO Colonel w.
A. Alfonte, in charge Of activities
at the fort.
The primary objective for the
1928-29 training season will be the
development of the companies to
such a state of proficiency that they
will serve as models for the army
in disciplinary and basic tactical
training, the colonel said.
Combat Teams Objective
The ultimate objective will be the
development through field training
Of efficient combat teams of all
units. An especial objective will be
the efficient conduct of a summer
training camp. the citizens military
training camp.
All officers and enlisted men will
receive training in chemical warfare.
The Chemical Warfare Officer,
seventh corps area. will visit the
post sometime between January 2,
1929, and March 81, 1929, and con-
duct a 10-hour course of instruction.
Field officers will be trained in a
general knowledge of the tactical
use of chemical warfare agents.
In the radio department., the head
quarters company detachment will
train at least two men as operators
competent to function in radio nets
Of higher echelons, in addition to the
needs Of that unit for notifications.
Special Courses Planned
In the medical department, the
detachment will receive instruction
in disciplinary drill and technical
training.
Recruit training will also come in
for its share of attention. Recruits
will be organized into a recruit de.
tachment. Their training will be
sufficiently thorough to permit them
to participate in the current train
ing Of their organization upon join
ing. Recruits will not be available
for fatigue duty except in cmer-
gency.
The use of federal troops in civil
disturbances will come in for regu-
lar attention. In the basic course,
the use Of the troops at such . time
will be studied on Mondays and
Thursdays up to November 10, with
Captain A. K. Kupfer, as instructor.
Defense Act Studied
Regular study will also be made in
the nationtal defense act, training
methods and principles, military
hygiene and first aid, military
sketching and map reading, care of
animals, field engineering and mill
tary law.
The advanced course for all Off
GERS not occupied with the basic
study will include training manage
nlent, tactics, command and leader
ship and staff functioning and oper-
alton.
Captain H. H. Noyes and Captain
j. e. Oswald will instruct in other
courses to be taken up.
Field Training Continues
An illiterate school, to be con-
Quoted from 8 to 8 .. m. each train
ing day except Monday is scheduled,
with the instructor not definitely
named.
Other courses will be given on
buglers and drummers, animal man
agement, clerks, supplies and ma
chine guns. Instructors will be c..
II. Prunty, Sergeant Frank De Num-
brun. 1t. James A. Harron and Cap
tain G. =. Bloomquist.
Although = good share Of the time
will be taken up by the courses,
Colonel Alfonte said, training will
continue on the fields when possible,
and otherwise will be held in the
fort gymnasium.
A schedule Of athletic events and
entertainment Is being drawn by the
officers in charge, but has not been
completed. It has been definitely
decided to am q field, however, to
make skating possible. Efforts are
also being made to have bowling al
leys IN the gymnasium repaired so
that they will be available for use
this winter.