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

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I fs li -sg! Q t c Jim. 5-31'-gg X. . ' -7 Ag 1924- Douenaov AUTOMATIC RIFLE It took a lot of time to strip the thing and get it back together again. Some old timers seemed to doubt the ability of the gun to do much shooting when it was filled up with so many parts. Great surprise therefore, when, in spite of its formidable works, the gun made all the hits the instructors claimed it would. The student has discovered that knowledge of the mechanism is - f- -Q power when the time comes xt- .a,ef-fi:-'- to shoot. There was no time AQ, 'Q- F ' fail' to fire record, so the instruc- L- Qff l A 7 x tion'course was as far as the I ,CIZLFH i K I X f f student went. ' 5 l da rw- -e - A f X BAYONET A s The classes tore into the .1150 -Ji! ' swinging dummies with l f X grunts and distended nostrils, i l and if the unhappy bundles K QQQZHI H1 1 hadn't been wired in place ull. ' 44 ,' ,,3.5--Ml' they would have taken to the --f af- . .. , W 7 ' . , --A- .gp -NYM, woods. This was a result of -K. the carefully regulated system of training put over as usual on the best bayonet court in the country. There was no qualification course as yet approved, but the student was given a run at it anyway, after which there was evidence of a considerable amount of re- spect for the Bayonet Expert of the future. The course in bayonet fighting comprises demonstration, explanation, and practical work in the technique and teaching methods of bayonet combat. The important thing in bayonet training is the spirit of the offensive, planted 14' R v -', ' H I 'hi-4 -vb If ffl. ...J 'rll 1 I-I If V4 fe? , .-. fi 'tif' e .- 4--1 .- f 1. 1 K , , 1 - T lr - -6 W 5 s we ' as 4 ' ,yu iq-- II4 s Int

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lfv 1- . X - ' I . H ,L lf 1 if r ' . K , .4 X J, x c DOUG DEPARTMENT OF QYVIILITARY CART Tina Hr-:c:oxn5i':f:'1'lox -.-- S SOON as a student has introduced himself and his belongings into the vicinity and has disposed of the latter in some sheltered spot, he finds the Second Section awaiting him. He is subjected 'l with his classmates to a course in Doughboy hardware, com- .54 1 'A I I S- , f i xx. C mencing with rifles, bayonets and grenades, progressing through cross-country runs behind a firing line ' ' employing all forms of sudden death . 5 simultaneously and more or less ex- pertly. and winding up with machine 4 guns and howitzers. His career in- , . g .' 2 volves itself with the following phases: ff X Y' wx it I Wx g g . I ' Q , ,Ii 3 ' e 5 ' Ruv1.1fLM,m1isMANs1-11? .lv f . f Pg ,..t uk, . d l' - 6 Colonel Sandy McNabb started ii mr f lf: 9 this, his present disciples carry on ex- Q X i fflj' actly as the training regulations pre- Q an J 'g scribe and it is frequently pointed out l :Min fig how the methods may be applied to the v 6 , 1 0, . . . -Eli' s-nr. ig inhabitants of the approaching summer X Q .+ V Wi-f::.Ev,x ll.. M X N-50 . . f 5253s 1 :deli X- gf 2 training camps. , ' JSE: 1 'Et vi, X This past year the Advanced Class, -3 lx ': ff, ' T fb -- . X l.':'lA fx E '- although not having enough Jiri 1 ' '-I .- . . . 2' agile' A 5: ,' time to fire record, shot 1n- s ,l l' Lf struction practice. The Com- X. l' 'lr K pany Officers fired for record if 'Q 4? and, although the new course A is a stiffer one than for- X JZIMZMZA merly, qualified a hundred WWW, , percent. Their average, 300.84. 15,24 'X Captain McCormick's 333 and 'll' . Captain Stonewall jackson's 1.7 A 332 were records for this ' - I 9' O school. Q ff' ' -si f, if Q s' Sb '- 3 ' S ig ,fn 5 ' 'JJ .ss ,i .x vw'

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lc. r Q C I924-.DDUGHEOY t ' 3! N . I in the individual infantryman by training along this and other methods of hand-to-hand conflict. The constant stressing and developing of this spirit is the chief task of the bayonet instructor. This is now all the easier with the new Bayonet Expert qualification course-a run which simulates the actual conditions of hand-to-hand fighting with the bayonet to a greater de- gree than any previous feature of bayonet training. Here the fighter meets his dummy enemies in all conceivable positions and arrangements, and despatches them successively with varying thrusts: parries, and butt strokes. MX f Z 5 t Xl fffxx 3 Ky- X X' K mein I I x ':5, y.:' :Y jp 5 MX fe f i vi ll se' D Af- ' l rf' 1 J J -Q t lgj fif f I , ev f -, , lfix 8 . ,,.. -'f' l 'Aff ji X J, K lily 1 i M.. . dy- A ff is ef' sag!!! a ' 2 ihldlte Spiirioi: oil: lilte Bayonet 1: ailemevturoasllyy J L 55 S '- , S 3' .1 1 - 7, flu 9 we Y. ts, ,ugh T-. is it