Participants	Night Firing Practice Under Simulated Combat Conditions	Combat Training at Night
First Week
See Appendices I and II
Second Week
Entire armored reconnaissance unit.	Hand grenade precision and combat throwing; sniper training; hasty firing and firing from hip with immediate follow-up.	Overpowering sentries with and without weapons; defense against bayonet, dagger, rifle butt, shovel thrusta; jiu-jitsu; close antitank combat.
Scouts	-	Outpost training; patrol leader training.
Third Week
Entire unit	Sniper training; firing light machine gun while moving; hasty firing and firing from hip at moving targets.	Holds used in hand-to-hand fighting; penetration into position involving close combat.
Scouts	-	Eliminating a strong point; cover and concealment; creeping and crawling; construction and removal of hasty obstacles.
Patrols	-	Dismounted reconnaissance and fighting; construction and removal of hasty obstacles.
Fourth Week
Entire unit	Sniper training; hand grenade throwing in wooded areas	Surprise assault in wooded areas.
Scouts	Hasty firing with pistol and submachine gun.	Three-day field exercise at platoon level; applying all previously learned subjects.
Patrols	Pistol and submachine gun firing; firing from reconnaissance vehicles.	Night orientation.
Fifth Week
Entire unit	-	Reconnaissance patrol; holds used in hand-to-hand fighting; close antitank combat.
Scouts	Sniper training; light machine gun firing from hip at moving targets.	Combat patrols.
75-mm. gun crews	-	Cover and concealment; observation exercises from vehicles; defense against enemy close combat antitank teams.
Patrols	-	Disengagement from enemy with rear guard action; defense against enemy antitank team.
Sixth Week
Scouts	Pistol and submachine gun firing; hasty firing and firing from hip with rifle or carbine; firing light machine gun while moving; bayonet training.	House-to-house fighting; combat within a building; raids.
Patrols	Machine gun practice	Reconnaissance in forests and inhabited localities.
Seventh Week
Entire unit	Sniper training; firing at direction of sound sources of light, muzzle flashes, and poorly illuminated targets.	Close antitank combat.
Scouts	Advanced defensive firing practice by scout car crews.	-
75-mm. gun crews	Fire fight against enemy surprise attack; advanced combat firing practice at moving targets.	-
Eighth Week
Entire unit	Continuous 7-day combat exercise (including night bivouac) of a combined armored reconnaissance company. One third of the combat exercise must take place during the hours of darkness. The following problems should be included: counterthrusts against an enemy penetration involving hand-to-hand fighting; mounted and dismounted reconnaissance; limited objective attack at dusk; forest fighting; house-to-house combat; combat patrols; demolitions; attack by an armored reconnassance platoon with 75-mm. gun and 80-mm. mortar support, involving penetration into enemy position and close combat with live ammunition.
Ninth Week
Scouts	-	Feint attack by dismounted armored reconnaissance platoon, using various tricks against a powerful enemy; penetration, Into enemy position and close combat
Patrols	-	Rear guard action by reinforced armored reconnaissance patrols.
Tenth Week
Scouts	-	Forest fighting and combat in inhabited localities by scout car section; surprise raid on river crossing sites; use of light signals and other devices.
Patrols	-	Rear guard action by armored reconnaissance patrols; use of light signals, etc.



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