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

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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

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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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.lcv i A I924 DOUGHBOY ' U ,arf 3, F - . lm. 'alt Q ' 1 : A GRENADE This descendent of primaeval man's first weapon, the rock, flourishes in the vicinity of the bayonet court where the air is full of flying dummies and echoes from the woods of bursting H-E . The graduate can look you in the eye and tell you what's ff- inside the grenade, how to 5 El handle it, how to project it ' v .J 4 and what to do with it if it lx. 5' L ff, X turns out to be a l'dud . He Xxx X Z Z can even make a pretty re- V X ly V spectable explosion himself my bQ A f X N r A out of a collection of fuses, l X Q X X ill x E detonators and T. N. T. py- N 5 LTX 'gxj-x X K rotechnics is one of his favor- gf x - ' 5253. -f' 7.,5g7f? 1 ite side lines. - liz , ,HN Pisroi, X X l This course is another of FII X X the Schoolls products. The pamphlet in use locally was fy fa. X , fouowed. Plenty of dry Shooting C -Qi l I and preliminary exercises, peculiar ' 1, on if W QX to Pistoleers, qualified an astonish- ,M i . A H ingly large number of modest indi- :gqf r M I! Q viduals who disclaimed, at first, any vt, I Q T l lf L 2 ' - control over the .4 5. The dismount- 1 : lg ' ed record course was fired by 'each X .-1 , student. The Company Off1C6fS 0 ' 'T qualified 82 percent and averaged lx l Sharpshooter . 1' r w ' m Q 1- , MUSKETRY T 7'-Z' Q15 The rifle and automatic rifle Join- -rf. ea . '- f ' ed forces here, and in the hands of 'er ' -' students deployed as skirmishers l l -3 'S '7 'ti I I I