190 TARGET PRACTICE IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



They should "understand that it is often necessary to bal- 

 ance carefully the advantages of running to the firing point 

 with the disadvantages of arriving out of breath. 



When a detachment is itself exposed to hostile fire, those 

 who by calculation and lot are found to be killed or wounded, 

 should be required to fall out or at least to cease firing for 

 the day, thereby reducing the fire effect and chance of success 

 of the detachment. If the man is killed because he has wan- 

 tonly exposed himself to hostile fire it might be advisable to 

 assign him such extra drills or practice as the case demands, 

 and proper measures of discipline should in all cases be 

 applied to men who are disposed to regard the exercise as a 

 representation and not as a reality. 



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