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 (?-inch), 1 auger (1?-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.
