iv. Fire tactics (the selection, occupation and preparation

of positions and co-operation with the other arms). v. Field engineering. (_See_ M.F.E. and Secs. =238=, =239=.)

4. At first it will often be advisable to take out only the officers, senior non-commissioned officers and parties required for observation and communication. When these individuals have got to know their work and to understand each other, the whole battery can be taken out.

Parties may with advantage be sent out to the positions against which the guns are to come into action to note where and when any of the personnel or material of the battery are exposed to view, and to form targets for the guns. By such means the men will be enabled to see the mistakes made, and learn to avoid them.

5. The difficulties which attend the supply of ammunition in the field make it important that each battery should practise it with its full number of wagons as often as possible. In order to do this arrangements should be made to place the horses of the brigade at the disposal of each battery in turn.

6. Before the training of the battery is finished an opportunity of bivouacking for 24 hours should be obtained. It will be of advantage if the site selected affords facilities for practising swimming horses, entrenching and the passage of obstacles.

If arrangements can be made for issuing flour and live stock, useful training in the preparation of rations under active service conditions may be gained.

7. All training, other than formal parades, carried out beyond the precincts of barracks, whether other arms are present or not, should be based on some simple tactical scheme, which should be explained to all ranks beforehand.

=9.= _Brigade training._

1. As soon as the batteries have completed battery training they will be inspected by their brigade commander, after which the training of the brigade should commence.

Each brigade should be at the disposal of its commander for at least 18 working days.

2. The object of brigade training is to fit the brigade to take part, either alone or as part of a larger force of artillery, in any operation involving the employment of other arms.

To achieve this object training in the following is necessary:--