board will assume a tactical situation calling for the employment of Field Artillery, and will indicate the positions occupied by friendly and hostile troops. The officer will reconnoiter and select a position, post his battery, and conduct simulated fire to meet the conditions as communicated to him by the board.

(d) Gunnery. Oral. Gunnery and Explosives for Field Artillery Officers, Part I.

(e) Field Artillery matériel. Oral.

(1) Light and Horse Artillery-Ordnance Pamphlet, No. 1659, edition of 1911.

(2) Mountain Artillery-Ordnance Pamphlet, No. 1761, and Ordnance Pamphlet, No. 1659, edition of 1911, from "Sights," page 106, to "Targets for the Field Artillery," page 134.

(3) Heavy Field Artillery-Ordnance Pamphlet, No. 1771. (f) Explosives. Oral. Gunnery and Explosives for Field Artillery Officers, Part II.

(g) Military Law. Oral. A Treatise on the Military Law of the United States (Davis), Chapters I to XII, inclusive, and XV; Manual for Courts-Martial.

(h) Military Field Engineering. Oral. Manual of Military Field Engineering (Beach), omitting Chapter XIV.

(i) Military Hygiene. Oral. Elements of Military Hygiene (Ashburn).

(j) Hippology. Oral. The Army Horse in Accident and Disease (War Department); Horses, Saddles, and Bridles (Carter), Chapters III, IV, VIII, XV, and XVI.

(k) Packing (Mountain Artillery only). The officer to demonstrate his ability to instruct men in the elements of packing, including the fitting of the saddle, saddling, loading a cargo of side packs, unloading, and unsaddling.

(7) Military topography. Practical. The officer to make a topographical and tactical reconnaissance under assumed conditions (involving the use of Artillery with other arms) communicated to him in writing by the board. The board will indicate the point from which the start is to be made and will notify the officer as to the time allowed him to complete the reconnaissance, including the preparation on the ground of the reports and sketches prescribed in paragraphs 827 and 828, Drill Regulations for Field Artillery (Horse and Light), Provisional, 1911, and in paragraphs 614 and 615, Drill Regulations for Mountain Artillery, Provisional, 1908.

First lieutenant to captain.

(m) Field Service Regulations. Oral and practical.

Oral. Field Service Regulations, omitting Appendices Nos. 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. (The appendices omitted, except Appendix No. 6, are for reference only; in an examination requiring the use of data contained in any of them, either the textbook or the appropriate data will be furnished. The subject matter contained in Appendix No. 6 is also contained in Rules of Land Warfare.) Rules of Land Warfare.

Practical. Terrain exercise involving command of a battery at war strength as part of a parger force. (See "Notes on Field Artillery," by Spaulding.)

(n) Administration. Written. Preparation of the ordinary returns, rolls, requisitions, and other papers with which an officer must be familiar in order to perform the duties of a battery commander and of an adjutant, quartermaster and commissary of a post and of a regiment in the field. The officer will be furnished the necessary blank forms and be permitted to consult the following: Army Regulations, manuals for the staff departments, War Department General Orders, notes on blank forms, Circular 7, Q. M. G. O., 1909, and Circular 9, Q. M. G. O., 1910.

(0) Drill Regulations. Oral and practical.

Oral. (1) Light and Horse Artillery-Drill Regulations for Field Artillery (Light and Horse), Provisional, 1911, omitting Chapters V and VI, Part IV.

(2) Mountain Artillery-Drill Regulations for Mountain Artillery, Provisional, 1908, omitting Chapters V and VI, Part IV; Drill Regulations for Field Artillery, Provisional, 1911, Part VII.

(3) Heavy Field Artillery-Drill Regulations for Field Artillery (Light and Horse), Provisional, 1911, omitting Chapters I, II, and III, Part III, and Chapters V and VI, Part IV.

Practical. The officer to demonstrate his ability to command a battery of Field Artillery, fully manned and equipped, in the solution, on the terrain, of a tactical problem. The board will assume a tactical situation calling for the employment of Field Artillery and will indicate the positions occupied by friendly and hostile troops and the particular target to be attacked. The officer will reconnoiter and select a position, post his battery, and conduct its fire to meet the conditions communicated to him by the board. The firing will be executed with service

ammunition, and for this purpose the expenditure of 16 shrapnel is authorized for each first lieutenant examined.

(p) Gunnery. Oral. Gunnery and Explosives for Field Artillery Officers, Part I.

(g) Field Artillery matériel. Oral.

(1) Light and Horse Artillery-Ordnance Pamphlet, No. 1659, edition of 1911.

(2) Mountain Artillery-Ordnance Pamphlet, No. 1761, and Ordnance Pamphlet, No. 1659, edition of 1911, from Sights, page 106, to Targets for the Field Artillery, page 134.

(3) Heavy Field Artillery-Ordnance Pamphlet, No. 1771. (r) Military law. Oral. A Treatise on the Military Law of the United States (Davis), Chapters XIII to XIX, inclusive; Manual for Courts-Martial.

(s) Field fortifications. Practical. The officer, under the assumption that he is a staff officer of a battalion of his arm. to be given a problem in field fortification involving the reconnaissance and selection of a defensive position for the command under the conditions of the problem. He will make a written report on the position selected, and upon the location and nature of the works that he would cause to be executed. The report, including the necessary sketches, will be completed within a time limit fixed by the board. Based upon Notes on Field Fortifications (Army Field Engineer School), and upon Engineer Field Manual, Part V.

Captain to major.

(t) Field Service Regulations. Oral and practical. Oral. Field Service Regulations, omitting Appendices Nos. 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. (The appendices omitted, except Appendix No. 6, are for reference only; in an examination requiring the use of data contained in any of them, either the textbook or the appropriate data will be furnished.)

Practical. Terrain exercise involving command of a battalion at war strength as part of a larger force. (See "Notes on Field Artillery" by Spaulding.)

Practical. (Field exercise.) The officer to be given command of a battalion of his arm equipped for the field, and to be required to conduct a march of such distance and under such conditions as the board may prescribe, involving the making and breaking of camp, the reconnaissance, selection, and occupation of a position, and the movement to and occu

pation of a new position by night. The conditions of the exercise will be furnished the officer in writing. The board is authorized to combine this exercise with the tactical problem required in the examination in Drill Regulations.

(u) Drill Regulations. Practical. The officer to demonstrate his ability to command a battalion of Field Artillery, fully manned and equipped, in the solution, on the terrain, of a tactical problem. The board will assume (in writing) a tactical situation calling for the employment of the arms combined, and will indicate the positions occupied by friendly and hostile troops, and the particular targets to be attacked. The officer will reconnoiter and select a position, post his battalion, and conduct its fire to meet the conditions communicated by the board. The firing will be executed with service ammunition, and for this purpose the expenditure of 36 shrapnel is authorized for each captain examined.

(v) Field fortification. Practical. The officer, under the assumption that he is a staff officer of an independent brigade of all arms, to be given a problem in field fortification involving the reconnaissance and selection of a defensive position for the command under the conditions of the problem. He will make a written report upon the position selected and upon the location and nature of the works that he would cause to be executed. The report, including the necessary sketches, will be completed within a time limit fixed by the board. Based upon Notes on Field Fortification (Army Field Engineer School), and upon Engineer Field Manual, Part V.

(w) International law. Oral. Elements of International Law (Davis), Chapters I to IV, inclusive, IX, X, XII to XIV, inclusive; Rules of Land Warfare.

(x) Military history and policy of the United States. Oral. (1) A general knowledge of the military history of the United States and a detailed knowledge of the following: The First Battle of Bull Run, Jackson's Valley Campaign, The Battle of Chancellorsville, Grant's Campaign of 1864. Based upon American Campaigns (Steele).

(2) A general knowledge of the development of the military policy of the United States, based upon Military Policy of the United States (Upton), pages VII to xv, 1 to 67, 107 to 142, 195 to 222, 225 to 268, and 402 to 443, omitting tables of statistics and the details of military and naval operations.

41. FOR OFFICERS OF COAST ARTILLERY CORPS.

SUBJECTS.

Second lieutenant to first lieutenant.

(a) Field Service Regulations. Oral. Field Service Regulations, omitting Appendices Nos. 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. (The appendices omitted, except Appendix No. 6, are for reference only; in an examination requiring the use of data contained in any of them, either the textbook or the appropriate data will be furnished.)

(b) Administration. Written. Preparation of the ordinary returns, rolls, requisitions, and other papers with which an officer must be familiar in order to perform the duties of adjutant, quartermaster, and commissary of a small Artillery post and of a battalion of Coast Artillery serving as Infantry in the field. The officer will be furnished the necessary blank forms and be permitted to consult the following: Army Regulations, manuals for the staff departments, War Department General Orders, notes on blank forms, Circular 7, Q. M. G. O., 1909, and Circular 9, Q. M. G. O., 1910.

(c) Drill Regulations. Oral and practical.

(1) Oral. Drill Regulations for Coast Artillery, omitting parts relating to the duties of field officers.

(2) Practical. Such exercises at the battery as the board may prescribe. The examination will be held at a battery as nearly similar as practicable to that to which the officer is, or was last, assigned.

(3) Oral. Infantry Drill Regulations-Part I, omitting schools of the battalion, regiment, and brigade; Part II, omitting intrenchments; Part IV, company inspection only; Part V, manuals of the saber and of tent pitching only.

(4) Practical. The officer to demonstrate his ability to drill a platoon in the manual of arms, bayonet exercises, and in close and extended order.

(d) Military law. Oral. A Treatise on the Military Law of the United States (Davis), Chapters I to XII, inclusive, and XV; Manual for Courts-Martial.

(e) Military field engineering. Oral. Manual of Military Field Engineering (Beach), omitting Chapter XIV.

(ƒ) Seacoast engineering. Oral and practical. A test of the officer's knowledge of the use and adjustments of the en