Field Artillery Notes Author:Army Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 2. Do you go and visit other batteries and their stations, ami thereby see any improvements they may have made? 3. Are you in close touch with the personnel o... more »f the aviation, balloon, engineer, topographical, signal, and supply services? All these people can help you with your work. VIII. CAPABILITIES OF YOUR BATTERY. 1. What is your extreme range on a hot day with a 10 m. p. h. wind behind you, und on a cold day with a 30 m. p. h. wind against you? 2. What is your extreme rate of accurate fire? Do you rest your guns periodically when firing for long periods at a rapid rate? (The general rule is 10 minutes in every hour.) Have you got water, for cooling the guns, handy. 3. How many' guns can you get on any particular place in your arc of fire? 4. What is the shortest range at which you can fire? 5. How long does it take you to get the first round off tipon receiving a surprise order to fire? 6. How long would it take to get out of action if you were ordered to advance at this moment? IX. TELEPHONY. 1. Can you buzz and read Morse fast enough to be of use? 2. Can you read and send semaphore? 3. Do you thoroughly understand the telephone, particularly the tests which show whether it is in proper working order? 4. Do you test the voltage of your cells frequently? 5. Is your equipment complete, both for visual signaling and telephony? 6. Are your lines in good order? Do you test to see whether had speaking of lines is due to bad insulation or bad joints? (See Appendix I.) 7. Have you taken precautions that your linesmen are as little exposed to shell fire as possible? That is, by having test points in safe places and the route for the line laid out accordingly. You can not expect to keep your lines " through " under heavy shell flre, if yo...« less