COAST. I ARTILLERY JOURNAL, - Air Defense Artillery

Coast Artillery Target Practice in Hawaii
By COLONELW. E. COLE,C. A. C.
TARGET practices were held at Fort Kamehameha, during the year
1926, hy the Fifteenth Coast Artillery (H.D.) with fixed armament;
the Forty-Fitst Coast Artillery (Ry), with railway mortars; and the
Fifty-First Coast Artillery (Hv. T.), with 155-mm. G. P. F. Each hattery
of the Fifteenth Coast Artillery CH.D.) fired a day practice and a
night practice, while one hattery fired a special long-range practice. In
the Forty-First Coast Artillery (Ry), each hattery fired a day practice
and a night practice at Fort Kamehameha and a day practice in the
field at Gilbert, T. H.
Each battery of the first hattalion of the Fifty-Fifth Coast Artillery
(Hv.T.) fired two day practices, a night practice, and a special long-range
practice at Fort Kamehameha, and a day practice in the field at Gilhert,
T. H. The second hattalion moved from its permanent station at Fort
Ruger to Fort Kamehameha where each hattery fired a day practice and
a night practice. In addition to this one hattery fired a special longrange
practice, one hattery a practice under gas, and one hattery a
short-range practice with emergency fire control system. This battalion
then moved to Haleiwa, on the north shore of Oahu, for target practice
in the field.
Our objective for the training year is given very well in paragraph
15, Training Regulations 10-5. It was decided to be so trained that
the Coast Artillery here could fulfill the mission given in that Training
Regulation. Section 10, Training Regulations 435-220, served as a
guide in the training of the batteries. Of the subjects mentioned in
Training Regulations 435-280, all were well covered by each battery in
the command. In the school for officersthe study of Training Regulations
435-55 and 435-280 was stressed.
The applicatory method of instruction was emphasized at all times.
In general, the training of the command followed the usual Coast
Artillery methods, except possibly for a greater use of the training
regulations than is usual. The drills were analyzed a great deal and
men who could not fulfill the positions without errors were changed.
I am convinced that the analysis of drill is one of the most important
functions that a field officer is required to check, or rather that he must
insist shall he carefully checked.
Tlie annual turnover in personnel is so great that each battery
commander is faced with the necessity of rehuilding his organization
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