_One._--Assume the firing position ordered, and bring the rifle to the position for loading. _Two._--Perform the action of loading and adjusting sights correctly to a given range. _Three._--Bring the rifle to the position for aiming, press the trigger, and return at once to the position for loading. _Note._--Rapid loading and unloading in the prone position with the rifle to the shoulder will also prove a useful muscle exercise. CHAPTER V VISUAL TRAINING AND RANGING Section =33=.--General Remarks on Visual Training.[15] =1. Importance of Visual Training.=--Great as is the loss of fire effect due to errors in judging distance and sighting, an even greater amount of ammunition will be expended without good results unless the soldier is trained to discern and select targets at close ranges, and to recognize targets described to him at longer ranges. =2.= Even at close range, in the open, service targets consisting of troops are often impossible to discern with the naked eye when motionless if their background harmonizes with their uniform. At all ranges, except short distances within close range, troops in neutral-tinted uniform, adopting formations which allow full use to be made of ground and cover, are usually difficult to discern with the naked eye even when in motion. =3.= Finally, targets which consist of ground or its natural features are not easy to recognize unless the eye of the soldier is specially trained for this work, upon which fire effect in battle beyond close range will depend. The eyesight of the soldier must, therefore, be developed in special powers to enable him to discern and recognize the targets of the modern battlefield at all ranges before he is able to fire at them effectively. =4. Scope of Training.=--(i) Visual training will include discernment of targets, study and description of ground, recognition of and aiming at targets described by word of mouth, judging distance by eye, and, when possible, observation of the results of fire. Visual training should at first be separated from training in judging distance, but as proficiency is attained both should be combined after men have been instructed in military vocabulary and study of ground, which lays the foundation of instruction in recognition of targets. Training in observation of results of fire by watching the strike of bullets on the ground will be difficult to carry out except on dusty soil. =5. Visual Training on Miniature Ranges.=--Directions for training men in the different subjects of instruction mentioned in the above paragraph, including observation of fire, are contained in Chapter X, Sec. 72, para. 4. Section =34=.--Discernment of Targets.