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Updated: May 18, 2025
As the men, weary and perspiring, crowded out of the car, he smelt that unforgetable aroma that impregnates all permanent camps the odor of garbage. Camp Hooker was an astonishing and spectacular growth, suggesting "A Mining Town in 1870 The Second Week." It was a thing of wooden shacks and whitish-gray tents, connected by a pattern of roads, with hard tan drill-grounds fringed with trees.
The centre of gravity of effectiveness in war rests on the directing of operations and on the skilful transition from strategical independence to combination in attack; the great difficulty of leading cavalry lies in these conditions, and this can no more be learnt on the drill-grounds than systematic screening and reconnaissance duties.
"No," shouted several voices, "we unfortunately do not." "Well, I will tell it to you. Jahn went with his pupils down the Linden to the Brandenburg gate to perform the usual gymnastic exercises on the drill-grounds outside the city. On the way he happened to cast his eyes on the gate, where the Victoria formerly stood, and which the French stole and carried off to Paris.
In the Dockyards, on the Drill-grounds, what a stir: Camp in the Isle of Wight, not to mention Portsmouth and the Sea-Industries; 6,000 Marines are to be embarked, as well as Land Regiments, can anybody guess whither? America itself is to furnish 'one Regiment, with Scotch Officers to discipline it, if they can.
There was water, there were woods, there was an excellent space for a drill-ground. Jackson's directions as to drill-grounds were always characteristically explicit. "Major: You will see that a camp is chosen where there are wood, water, and a drill-ground " emphasis on the drill-ground. At Rude's Hill they drilled and drilled and drilled.
They would, at any rate, be far more valuable than many small manoeuvres, which can frequently be replaced by exercises on the large drill-grounds, than many expensive trainings in the country, which are of no real utility, or than many other military institutions which are only remotely connected with the object of training under active service conditions.
He sat back, smiled. "We seem to have a persistent tendency to become serious to-night," he remarked. Serious! Adrian saw a vision of the drill-grounds, and smiled sardonically; then he raised his head in surprise, for the new butler had broken all the rules of the household and was summoning his uncle to the telephone in the midst of dessert. He awaited the expected rebuke, but it did not come.
All that the soldiers learn from them that is, fighting in the country can be taught on the army drill-grounds. Divisional manoeuvres are still of some value even to the commanders.
The most! unsatisfactory material consists of those officers who, on account of inherited wealth, look upon their profession as a kind of sport, attractive, abounding in superficial honours, and for that reason very agreeable. These latter are apt to regard court ball-rooms and racecourses as more important fields of action than drill-grounds and barracks.
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