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the supervision and guidance of the commanding officer of the
unit. In military affairs, it is absolutely subordinate to the commanding
officer of the unit.
(e) In order to guide and unify the work of the various amusement
rooms, a guerrilla battalion should establish a club. This
club should have a chairman and a secretary who are responsible
for all its activities.
(f) The club should be attached to the political training section,
because the work of the amusement rooms constitutes a kind
of political training. If there is no political training section, the
club is directly subordinated to the commanding of officer.
(g) The work of the club consists in guiding and promoting
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the work of the various amusement rooms. Consequently, each
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week there should be a meeting of the responsible heads of the
various amusement rooms, and each month we should call a meeting
of all the officers and soldiers or a meeting of the army and
the people together. All the work of both the clubs and amusement
rooms should have as its principle not to interfere with
military administration, military training, or military action.
(2) The essentials of the work of clubs and amusement rooms.
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(a) The work of the military section consists in furthering a
spirit of independent study among the officers and soldiers, in
discussion of military questions, or in the mutual rectification of
the actions of the members in order to remedy the lacks and insufficiencies
of military training. Its content is as indicated
below.
(i) Bayonet section (practice, taking a hypothetical enemy
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as the object).
(ii) Grenade section (throwing a wooden hand grenade
at a target).
(b) Guerrilla section.
(i) Taking aim from a fixed support.
(ii) Checking one’s aim.
(iii) Carriage while shooting.
(iv) Investigations when setting out.
(v) Utilization of obstacles.
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