Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 14625-h.htm or 14625-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/6/2/14625/14625-h/14625-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/6/2/14625/14625-h.zip) MILITARY INSTRUCTORS MANUAL by CAPTAIN JAMES P. COLE, 59th INFANTRY Instructor 3rd Battalion, 17th Provisional Training Regiment, Plattsburg, N.Y. and MAJOR OLIVER SCHOONMAKER, 76th DIVISION Assistant Instructor 3rd Battalion, 17th Provisional Training Regiment, Plattsburg, N.Y. TO COLONEL WOLF Under whose careful supervision so many have received their Military Training in order that they may show the world in battle the true spirit of American manhood. Acknowledgment. To have prepared this book within the time allotted to it, without the assistance of Candidates ALCOTT FARRAR ELWELL and LYLE MILTON PROUSE would have been impossible, and grateful recognition is made of their services. Not only much of the manual labor, but the preparation of entire chapters, has been in their hands. Candidates CHARLES HUNTINGTON JACOBS and MICHAEL FRANCIS MCALEER have rendered very valuable assistance and we wish to thank the following candidates for the loan of materials used elsewhere, for typewriting and other work: GLENN MACK AINSWORTH. PHILIP M. BROWN. NELSON P. BUMP. EDWIN G. BURROWS. PHILIP DOREMUS. WALTER LANE HARDENBROOK. ALBERT BLANCHARD KELLOGG. HENRY PRATT MCKEAN. LOREN RAY PIERCE. HARRY RAPHAEL SAFTEL. ROLAND EMERY PACKARD. HOYT SHERMAN. Introduction. The officer of to-day has big problems to face at short notice. His training has necessarily been so intensive that he cannot absorb a large amount of it. He has little time to make out schedules or even to look over the hasty notes he may have made during his training period, yet he finds himself facing problems which force him to immediate action.