SWKDEX. 163 



FIELP SHOOTIXG BY BATTERY. 



The object of this shooting is to accustom the battery chief 

 to direct the fire, aud to teach the rest of the persouuel their 

 duties in action. 



If local circumstances permit, every field exercise should 

 be based on a tactical problem which is given to the battery 

 chief by the leader immediately before the firing is to take 

 place. 



In accordance with the problem, the battery chief selects 

 the site to be occupied by the battery, unlimbers, and selects 

 the kind of projectile if this has not been specified, and opens 

 fire. 



If local conditions do not permit of giving a tactical basis 

 to the problem, the leader tells the chief of battery where the 

 battery should unlimber and at what target he should fire. 



In firing, the regulations for drill and for shooting should 

 be strictly observed. Especial weight is given to the rapidity 

 of finding the range and completing the trial shooting. 



The shooting is watched by the chief of di^-ision, or chief 

 of the underofficers' school who acts as leader. 



BY DIVISION . 



This shooting is chiefly designed to practice chiefs of divi- 

 sion in directing the fire of two or more batteries, and to 

 accustom the rest of the personnel to those circumstances 

 that make the firing of a division more difficult than that of 

 a separate battery, and to the greater difficulty in hearing 

 the word of command and observing the shots, etc. 



As the chief of di\-ision can not have an opportunity to 

 perform his functions in directing the fire unless it be kept 

 up for some time, as much ammunition is allotted for each 

 field practice by division as the supply on hand permits. 



The exercises are so planned as to require the immediate 

 direction of the chief of di\*isiou. This is effected by the 

 changing of the target for the whole division, or by orders 

 from the regimental commander to the chief of division either 

 to divide the fire of the division between different targets 

 or to concentrate it against the same target, and it is left 

 for the chief of division to specify how this change shall be 

 effected. 



