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"The Plattsburg Manual A Handbook for Military Training"

, with, or in the presence of,
civilians of any age, sex or nationality.

FIRE

There are three kinds of fire:
(1) Volley Fire. Every one fires at the command FIRE. It is used at
funerals and occasionally in the first part of an action when the enemy
presents a large, compact target.
(2) Fire At Will. In this each soldier fires, loads, and fires again
independently of the others. He fires fast or slow as the occasion
demands.
(3) Clip Fire. The soldier stops firing when he has finished his clip
of five cartridges. This assists in preventing an undue expenditure of
ammunition and in abating excitement.

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN INDEPENDENT AND DIVISIONAL CAVALRY

The main difficulty in seeing the distinction between Independent and
Divisional Cavalry consists in our forgetting that we have different
kinds of organizations in the army as well as we have anywhere else. Let
us clearly understand this:
(1) An Infantry Division is composed of nine regiments of infantry, two
of artillery, and one of cavalry.


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