Manual of arms m-16

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It involved 27 commands from the sergeant, calling for 56 motions by the recruit. The single command, "Prime and Load," involved fifteen motions. Recruits had to learn to measure the proper length of a slow step or a quick-march step in unison with one another. They also had to learn to measure time by instinct.

Steuben insisted that each soldier was to be "very exact in counting a second of time between each motion. But with a single detachment as small as the Corps of Discovery, that precision would probably have been easier to achieve, as far as it was needed.

It is doubtful that Lewis and Clark anticipated any need to teach the formal manual of arms to all their men, who represented a mixture of experienced soldiers and raw recruits. Marksmanship, which Clark stressed at Camp Dubois, was more important. From the outset, the captains recognized the necessity of developing as many good hunters as possible.

A column on its march coming to a defile, which obliges it to diminish its front, the officer commanding the first platoon commands Break off! On which those files which cannot pass, break off, face inwards, and follow their platoon by files, and as the defile narrows or widens more files will break off, or join the platoon.

T he maneuver illustrated here shows the successive adaptations of the two ranks of a company 8 as they proceed through a defile between two roads where they might be ambushed by a hostile army. The objective was to keep the company at maximum battle-readiness at all times, prepared to discharge successive volleys of musket fire followed by frontal, slow-step bayonet charges. Another basic military maneuver taught by Steuben was the wheel.

A company of soldiers marching in double file would execute a "left face. Most of the rest of Steuben's Regulations were directed toward methodical preparations for every eventuality that might be encountered in combat—assuming the enemy would operate according to identical principles and procedures.

Lewis and Clark would have had no need for most of the directions in Steuben's book. Hostile Indian bands would not have met them with orderly mass maneuvers, but would have fought one-on-one. Besides, the Corps was either river-bound on keelboat , pirogues or canoes, or if moving overland, on horseback or on foot leading pack horses.

The captains taught their men some quick, simple but showy maneuvers to impress Indian audiences.