Report, Primary Outline of Course of Instruction for Non-Commissioned Officers and Selected Privates, by Sergeant Major D. H. Moore, Sergeant H. C. Van Smith, and Sergeant F. J. Bowman

Primary Outline of course of Instruction for Non-Commissioned Officers and Selected Privates. It is suggested that no set rate of progress be adopyed the amount of time being spent on each subject being commen- surate with the aptitude of the classes. lst. Period. VARIOUS MAPS AND THEIR USES, 1 Conventional signs. 3. Hydrography. 3. Traveling by means of the map and the various ways of orienting. 4. Scale of maps: 1/80,000 - 1/50,000 - 1/20,000. 5. Use of ruler. 6. Contours and Hachures. Calculations of altitudes. 7. use of the Protractor. 8. F= (M K ) Formula. 9. Simple problems involving the F equals (M K ) formula. 10. A brief and simple explanation of the Lambert Projection. 11. A more complete study of the Batthe map. (a) Origin. (b) Accuracy. (c) Method of keeping them up to date and their particular adaptability to Artillery. 13. Resections and Intersections. 2nd. Period. TOPHOGRAPHICAL INSTRUCEENTS. b: Principal Instruments. (a) Plane tabble to (b) Declinator. (c) Alidade. (d) Twenty meter chain. 3. Use of Plane Table. (a) Over the station point. (b) Leveled, Oriented and declinated. 3. Alidade. (a) Laying for direction. (b) Measuring gradbents. 4. Measuring distance with the twenty meter chain. 5. Three methods of location. (a) Intersection. (b) Resection. (3 methods) Blane Tracing paper. Italian. (c) Traversing. Rapid and standard.