331st field artillery, United States army, 1917-1919 . Chaplain Jay M. Gleason THE RE G I M E N T—P ag e 23 ^^ 331!! Field Artillery^ dragged—one inside of Battery As barracks and the other inside of Battery•<ES—gun drill in each battalion went on the same as during the mild fallweather. , During this period schools for officers and non-commissioned officers tookupon an average three nights a week. In addition, certain officers were detailedto attend divisional schools. These divisional schools covered all manner ofinfantry and artillery specialities, their value being enhanced by the instr
331st field artillery, United States army, 1917-1919 . Chaplain Jay M. Gleason THE RE G I M E N T—P ag e 23 ^^ 331!! Field Artillery^ dragged—one inside of Battery As barracks and the other inside of Battery•<ES—gun drill in each battalion went on the same as during the mild fallweather. , During this period schools for officers and non-commissioned officers tookupon an average three nights a week. In addition, certain officers were detailedto attend divisional schools. These divisional schools covered all manner ofinfantry and artillery specialities, their value being enhanced by the instructionof French and British officers. The regiment shared with rest of the brigade <N. Fireplace in the Officers MessPlanned by Lieut. Foltz and built by men of the Regiment. the undivided services of a Captain and Chief of Section of Artillery from theFrench Army. , . , , The school of Fire for Field Artillery at Fort Sill, Okla., which had beenestablished in the Fall of 1917, offered to the field officers, battery commandersand several first lieutenants of the regiment, the privileges of its excellent instruc-tion before the orders came for overseas. _ The monotony of the long winter months was lessened somewhat by the intro-duction of gas training for the entire regiment, a class in equitation for officers,and smoke bomb practice. The gas training was an enormous task but eachorganization in a months time had graduated all of its men, and each man hadbeen in the poison gas chamber to test for himself the efficacy of his mask. The w THE REGIMENT A 5511 Field Artillery, Captain Sylvester M. ShermanAdjutant of the First Battalion
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