Crew-Served Weapons and Gunnery I; Department of the Army ROTC Manual ROTCM 145-41
Washington DC: U.S. Department of the Army, 1954. Presumed First Thus. Wraps. [4], 452 pages. Some page corners creased. Cover worn, soiled and has edge tears. Illustrations (photographs, diagrams, and drawings). Index. Includes chapters on Browning Automatic Rifle; Caliber .30 Machine Guns; Gunnery for Machine Guns; Browning Machine Gun, Caliber .50 HB, M2; 57-MM Rifle, M18A1; 77-MM Rifle, M20; 105-MM Rifle, M27; and Recoilless Rifle Gunnery. Also includes Index. This manual contains copyrighted material reproduced by permission of the copyright holder, The Military Service Publishing Co., Harrisburg, PA. The Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) is a group of college- and university-based officer training programs for training commissioned officers of the United States Armed Forces. In 1915, Major General Leonard Wood instituted the Citizen's Military Training Corps, the first series of training camps to make officers out of civilians. For the first time in history, an attempt was made to provide a condensed course of training and commissioning competent reserve line officers after only a summer of military training. Over 5,000 men arrived at Plattsburgh in May 1917 for the first of the large training corps. By the end of 1917, over 17,000 men had been trained. By the eve of its entry into World War One, the U.S. had a prepared corps of officers including one of the earliest Plattsburgh graduates, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. The Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (AROTC) program is the largest branch of ROTC, as the Army is the largest branch of the military. A crew-served weapon is any weapon system that is issued to a crew of two or more individuals performing the same or separate tasks to run at maximum operational efficiency, as opposed to an individual-service weapon, which only requires one person to run at maximum operational efficiently. The weight and bulk of the system often also necessitates multiple personnel for transportation. Crew-served weapons operated by infantry include sniper rifles, anti-materiel rifles, machine guns, automatic grenade launchers, mortars, anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft guns, recoilless rifles, shoulder-launched missile weapons, and static anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Weapons, Gunnery, ROTC, Military Manual, ROTCM 145-41, Browning Automatic Rifle, Caliber.30 Machine Gun, Browning Machine Gun, 57-mm Rifle, M18A1, 75-mm Rifle, M20, 105-mm Rifle, M27, Recoilless Rifle, Marksmanship, Indirect Fire
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