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

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.lg V N ! 4 T 1 - f me f, ir DEPARTMENT OF EXPERIMENT CAPT. PAUL S. JONES CAPT. M. S. EDDY LT. COL. H. PENDLETON, JR. LT. EARL CUSTER CAPT. THEO. F. WESSELS

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-la ,X ll ,FJ f f i dm. -u Q- ' . J A: be given for all work of this kind that may be performed. No doubt valu- able suggestions occur to many officers who, through modesty, fail to give the service the benefit of these ideas. Officers are urged to study and develop any ideas they may have for improvement of the Infantry, and give the service the benefit. Both the service and the individual will derive benefit from any such study. All proposals or suggestions from personnel located at points other than Fort Benning should be sent to the Chief of Infantry. When the Infantry Board was originally organized, General Farnsworth, who was then President of the Board, sent a memorandum and letter to the commanding officer of each infantry brigade, regiment and machine gun bat- talion, urging cooperation with the board and asking that the contents of the memorandum be called to the attention of all officers of their organiza- tions. The letter and memorandum are published in full in the Infantry Journal for june 1920. General Orders 112, War Department, 1919, covers the subject of Military Education in the Army. In paragraph 4 of that order it states: It will be the constant aim of all concerned to improve and perfect the methods employed. With this end in view, officers of all grades shall be encouraged to submit proposals for improvements in methods or char- acter of instruction through proper channels to the War Department. These proposals will receive careful consideration by superiors, and their action thereon will be such as to encourage initiative upon the part of their subordinates and to make certain that no proposals of merit escape recognition. The principle contained in the foregoing paragraph applies with equal force to suggestions for the improvement of the Infantry Service. Progress is always necessary if we are to keep abreast of development and-progress in other nations and have our arm of the service properly prepared to play' its part in the national defense. This progress which is vital to efficiency cannot be maintained except by the earnest cooperation of all infantrymen. iff. ow ' it fr 'vii' - , . I .1373 9 Y , ff I ' , ,gi weft. r 1 if e r i if is x t' . . fax, lu . yy. up -f X , a ge? ,L LQ- f ifty. Qi s f f' - 1 - A f '- ,,g..',,4.L.-g1T,Eil-.r-:rg-. .-.f f- -- -,-- . -7, f m .-- - HA-- f1'fi-'-XJQY -.x-K, c ,. T -.V X.. .. 2, ,Y 5 I-As... -sw.. - L '- f V -.-XJ

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I - ,f I -5,1139 f r . I 1' . - Skt-I924 nous:-mov 7 1' , : DEPARTMENT OF EXPERIMENT I Gi HIS organization, now an organic part of The Infantry School, operates in conjunction with the Infantry Board in making test JU VAQ . 1 F experiments and research in subjects referred to the Board by A -f.. the Chief of Infantry. It is also at the disposition of The Com- T mandant, The Infantry School, for any such Work that he may desire to have carried on. The Infantry Board frequently receives projects for report that require that the merit of munitions proposed for various pur- poses be determined and that material be submitted to thorough trial. It is the province of the Department of Experiment to draw up a program for and actually make the practical test required, a most comprehensive report that includes the conclusions reached, being submitted to The Infantry Board on its completion. , Q .K 1, A 1,51 ' n- 1 Q. 5 The projects received cover a widely varied field. They are classified, roughly, into one of the three categories of infantry weapons and exterior ballistics, the clothing and personal equipment of the infantry soldier, and the organizational equipment, transportation and special articles. The Infantry Board and the Department of Experiment together consti- tute practically one agency which is available to the Chief of Infantry for purposes of studying and developing matters of interest to the Infantry Arm. This is a very important field and one in which this agency has proven most valuable. A wr D5 ,pc N-1 g5?,:-51.15, N V I 1 ,A I fn'-I af, f17f?f'l:7 PH ' ' 2 . If' ff' , G 4 4 L X 2 'h un Wiiflifia. Q I 'sa diff ' H sfe 5 - ,p w Mg .'r.f4..,f-, ,. - 'N l y . If Ngxx lax haw, W -., K X., fps It , ,'?iff 'F ' Zin VW I ' YK XX - -' --- 1 .., A - 4' I ' Q - I X5 K Lf xx ' -.N U sta Wil. 1 1 far..- . X -I I a 0