Teaching Our Soldiers How to Figlit 



Problems in minor tactics are worked out in models of mud 



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Above: A squad under instruction. Those on 

 the left are making a simple trench and those on 

 the right, embankments. At right: Tools and 

 supplies for making fortifications and relief-maps 



SAND table work is acknowledged to be 

 one of tne most important means of 

 instruction in military science. Work 

 n the sand table has been done for many 

 ears, but First Lieutenant J.J. Fulmer, of 

 the First Disciplinary Battalion of the 

 Inited States Disciplinary- Barracks, Fort 

 Leavenworth, Kansas, has introduced into 

 the work scientific exactness. 



The sand tables used are ten feet long, 

 four feet wide and three and one-half feet 

 high to top of box, and the box is eight 

 inches deep. Sand is put in the box to a 

 depth of six inches. It is well watered with 

 n ordinary watering can. 

 Two sets ofjmplements are used. One is 

 known as the fortification set and the other 



as the terrain set. The fortification set 

 contains eight gabions (round, bottomless 

 baskets, filled with earth), four fascines 

 (bundles of sticks bound together) four 

 hurdles, twenty bags for sand, one box of 

 blocks, representing sod, and one bundle 

 abatis (obstacle composed of felled trees). 

 Besides these there are trench models and 

 material to represent hills, woods, streams, 

 railroads, bridges, concrete, king post. 



A portion of country as laid out 

 on the sand table, showing rail- 

 roads, hills, |town, woods, etc. 



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