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"The Plattsburg Manual A Handbook for Military Training"


A message from the Father and Mother whose son is to serve under you:
"I want my boy to do his bit. I want him to willingly submit to all
sacrifices. I don't limit them. I expect him to become efficient. I
expect him to obey orders. That means all orders. Wrong orders as well
as right orders.
But I want him to have a fighting chance. I don't want him to serve
under an inefficient officer who is playing to the galleries; who is in
the habit of doing things wrong instead of right. If the worst should
come, I want my boy to perish for a good cause. I don't want there to be
any blunders about it.
In willingly placing my boy under your orders, I charge you with a
sacred task. I charge you to lead him efficiently."


SUPPLEMENT
ADVANCE WORK


SUPPLEMENT
CHAPTER I
THE THEORY OF SECURITY
(Copied from the Field Service Regulations)
GENERAL PRINCIPLES

Security embraces all those measures taken by a command to protect
itself from observation, annoyance, or surprise by the enemy.
Ordinarily this security is provided in part by cavalry.


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