Field Artillery Instruction; A Complete Manual of Instruction for Prospective Field Artillery Officers (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...--Colon Bar indicating fraction--..--Underline (before and after the word or words it is wished to underline).--Double dash (between preamble and address. between address and body of message, between body of mes--. sage and signature, and im mediately before a fraction)--...--Cross--.--. In the wig-wag the positions of the flag should be governed by an easy flexible motion of the wrists and arms, using the arms from the shoulders down. The staff should be grasped by the right hand with the lower edge of the palm about three inches from the end of the staff, the left hand above the right and separated from it by about six inches. In making the characters the entire staff should be pivoted around the center of that portion of itself between the two hands and not around either hand. This pivotal portion of the staff should be held opposite a point about midway between the center of the chest and the waist. To prevent the tangling of the flag around the staff a small loop should be described at the completion of each downward stroke so that in going from one side to the other, as in the letter " a," a figure 8 is made. The loops of this figure should not be too much exaggerated but made just large enough to avoid catching the flag on the staff at the beginning of the upward stroke. In windy weather the loops will have to be made somewhat larger than during calmer periods, their size always being restricted to as narrow limits as practicable. Too large loops have the effect from a distance of foreshortening the appear ance of the length of the staff thus rendering the characters vague. In making successive dots or dashes the same principle must be observed and additional precautions taken to avoid passing the vertical on the upward stroke, a very commo...