manual for commanders of infantry platoons. - US Army Combined ...

·20 NA~dgJUAL FORWCOM1~ANCDEB S OF INFdA~TRYT PlATOONS.' f
ground 1. yard apart, and placed a~t dijtianccs of 20, 25, 30 35
yards, etc. (Fig. 16.)
The "throwers " place themselves in~ trench A. They alre exercised
in throw~ing their grenadecs in~to tre~nch. B. They then
increase the range successively to icachl C:, D, etc.
Pier. 10.--Puling out; the catch fuse.
The sqjuads mayg be divided in halfr, one a~t the firing point
nani the other a~t thle targlet. The sccn(I parity r~eturns the
gTrenatdes to the first:, and so on. Loss of timne is thus azvoidedl
and the interest ofkall is increased.
Direction and accuracy can b~edeveloped, by the emp~loymn~et
of targets traced on the ground.