Noncommissioned Officers' ManualGeorge Banta Publishing Company, 1917 - 343 páginas |
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Adjutant advance guard ammonia ammunition antitoxin arms Army bandage bolt camp Captain cartridge cavalry chancroid charge clean clothing cocking piece commanding officer company commander contours Corps court-martial may direct cover Dengue fever detachment discharge disease distance duty enemy enlisted equipment fatigue uniform firing pin floor plate Fort Leavenworth front furlough germs give Grant Hill ground hand Hill inches infantry instructions keep Kickapoo leather Leavenworth magazine main body Manual mess mile Military Courtesy military law necessary night noncommissioned officer observation orders Ordnance outguards outpost patrol person subject platoon position proper punishment Quartermaster Quartermaster Corps rear guard received reconnoiter regiment Regulations remove Required rifle road salute scale sentinels Sergeant shoes sick sight signals sketching sleeve slope soldier subject to military tent tincture of iodine tion tourniquet troops uniform wound yards
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Página 77 - I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the United States of America ; that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies whomsoever ; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States, and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the Rules and Articles of War.
Página 69 - Any person subject to military law who commits murder or rape shall suffer death or imprisonment for life, as a court-martial may direct; but no person shall be tried by court-martial for murder or rape committed within the geographical limits of the States of the Union and the District of Columbia in time of peace.
Página 73 - Who, for the purpose of obtaining, or aiding others to obtain, the approval, allowance, or payment of any claim against the United States or any officer thereof, makes, or...
Página 89 - ... for the purpose of determining allowances for all travel under orders, or for officers and enlisted men on discharge, travel in the Philippine Archipelago, the Hawaiian Archipelago, the home waters of the United States, and between the United States and Alaska shall not be regarded as sea travel and shall be paid for at the rates established by law for land travel within the boundaries of the United States.
Página 29 - General Garcia is dead now, but there are other Garcias. No man who has endeavored to carry out an enterprise where many hands were needed, but has been well-nigh appalled at times by the imbecility of the average man — the inability or unwillingness to concentrate on a thing and do it. Slipshod assistance, foolish inattention, dowdy indifference, and half-hearted work seem the rule; and no man succeeds, unless by hook, or crook, or threat he forces or bribes other men to assist him ; or mayhap,...
Página 30 - ... out, and forever out, the incompetent and unworthy go. It is the survival of the fittest. Selfinterest prompts every employer to keep the best — those who can carry a message to Garcia. I know one man of really brilliant parts who has not the ability to manage a business of his own, and yet who is absolutely worthless to...
Página 31 - ... nor has to go on a strike for higher wages. Civilization is one long anxious search for just such individuals. Anything such a man asks shall be granted ; his kind are so rare that no employer can afford to let him go.
Página 97 - Who knowingly purchases or receives in pledge for any obligation or indebtedness from any soldier, officer, or other person...
Página 28 - I wish to make is this: McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia; Rowan took the letter and did not ask, "Where is he at?" By the Eternal! there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies ; do the thing — "carry a message...
Página 64 - Army of the United States; all volunteers, from the dates of their muster or acceptance into the military service of the United States; and all other persons lawfully called, drafted or ordered into, or to duty or for training in, the said service, from the dates they are required by the terms of the call, draft or order to obey the same...