US Army Infantry School - Doughboy Yearbook (Fort Benning, GA)

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ALLOTMENT OF HOURS AND UNITS FOR COURSES OF INSTRUCTION Field Company National Guard and Reserve Officers Officers Rifle Course-M. G. Course SUBJECT Hours Units Hours Units Hours Units Hours Units Armyof United States.. 7 7 Automatic Rifle ....... 18 20 29 30 I5 25 Aerial Photography .... 3 . . . 3 . . . . . . . . . Baseball .... . ...... . . . IO 5 . Basket-ball ........... . .. ... 'IO 5 ... . .. Bayonet ....... . ...... 8 I5 23 25 21 30 Boxing and VV1'estling.. ... ... IO 5 ... ... Care of Animals and Stable lVIanagement.. . 14 6 30 IO . . . . . . . . . . . . Drill and Command .... . . . . . . 46 52 3554 ,43 35 M 43 Fooitball .....,.... 16 5 Grenades ...... . 8 I5 18 20 9 1 5 9 I5 Light Mortar .... . . 23 I4 22 20 . .. ... ZIZ 35 Machine Guns ... ... 135 Q0 149 110 ... ... 146W 160 Map Reading a n tl Sketclling .......... 64 72 64. 80 20 26 20 26 Martial Law and Riot Duty .............. 5 . 5 Methods of Instruction. I2 IO I2 IO 4M 42 lVIilitary History flVIono- graplisj ............ 87 65 66 60 . . . ... ... ... Musketry ....... . 44 20 52 30 39 40 . . . . . . One Pounder .... . . 30 21 30 30 . .. . .. 31 50 Physical Training . . I5 5 28 I5 I6 . . . I6 . . . Pistol Marksmanship .. . IO IO 18 I5 IOEQ I5 1 1 I5 Psychology ........... 6 6 Rifle Marksmanship .. . 50 45 101 70 IOI 100 . .. . .. Tactics .............. 537 578 308 368 155 206 IZQM V156 Track, Field and Swim- ming .............. . . . 9 5 . . . . . . . Volley Ball and Soccer. . . . . . 9 5 . . . . . . . Total Units ...... . . 1000 . 1000 . . 500 . . 500

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CLASS HISTORY N a hot and dusty day in September The Advanced Officers Class reported to The Infantry School for duty. ln groups, the travel- stained warriors made their way to the village inn, and after an effort to remove the red dust of upper Georgia from their persons with the yellow dust of the nearby Chattahoochee as it percolated through the pipes of the bath, they one and all entered' into that mad scramble known as getting a house in Columbus. I-low we will look back over the years and think of the historic houses we have inhabited in Columbus. Those historic walls, dewed with age, resounded again, as they had before, to the martial tread of warriors. That same furniture, brought by Oglethorpe when he crossed the Upatoi was still in use, and many, many times has iti paid for itself in gold of the realm by being rented, in meagre quantities, to the officers of the Army. But to those strangers who had arrived for the first time in the fair precincts of Columbus, a still greater surprise awaited. The seat of mili- tary learning was located nine miles from the village, and between the two ran a prehistoric road. Over this washboard, the new arrivals bumped their way to the post, where on its bluff, high above the Upatoi, stood Benning! How we thrilled with the thought of the unwitting tenths which must even then have been concealed in the dust and underbrush, and which we should before long make our very own! Oh, Rapture! Oh, JOY! Reporting, we were laden with the implements of that Tenth Punic War upon which we were about to enter. Steel helmets, rifles, sketching cases, clip boards, compasses flensatic, prismatic, emphatic, erraticl of all known kinds and makes, field glasses, bayonets and last but not least, that badge of, labor yet to come, THE UNIONALL. Proceeding then under this dray load, we were shown to a locker room. Around the walls were nice little spaces just half large enough to hold the stuff we were charged with. This arranged, we reported to be photographed. What an inspiring moment it was! How we looked at the proofs and said to ourselves: Some day this will be a famous picture, for it has me in it! Historians will seeki it out and say: Ah! there he is when he first gave promise of military greatnessfl The preliminaries over, we were conducted to an ancient stable which had served its former owners, as a dairy, where we were initiated into the mysteries of the school. How we tinglecl at the thought of those pioneers who had gone before us! How we secretly gloried in their sacrifices!