Note. Supplement night training schedule for armored infantry troops (App. II) with specialized training prograrn outlined in this schedule.

First week

See Appendix II.

Second week

First exercise: Preparation of cord fuzes; preparing charges for demolitions and for use by combat patrols; knots and ties.

Second exercise: Using pneumatic floats to move combat Patrols across a river without making any noise.

Third week

First exercise: Types of charges; preparing charges and fuzes.

Second exercise: Reconnoitering and marking roads ; traffic control; testing tonnage capacity of a bridge.

Fourth week

First exercise: Handling antitank and antipersonnel mines; laying and clearing open and concealed mines; constructing barbed-wire obstacles; repairing damaged wire obstacles and closing gaps without delay.

Second exercise: Detection and removal of mines; breaching barbed-wire obstacles.

Third exercise: Planting hasty mine obstacles; constructing road blocks without charges or mines.

Fifth week

First exercise: Constructing platforms for tree snipers and observers.

Second exercise: Detecting and removing demolition charges attached to bridges.

Third exercise: Approach march; crossing difficult terrain (shell craters, swampy terrain, sandy stretches, antitank ditches) ; preparing organic vehicles to cross same. Retrograde movement ; planting mine barriers and preparing mine records.

Sixth week

First exercise: Combat patrol action during which engineer combat equipment is employed; construction of road blocks and barricades; preparing and placing hidden small charges.

Second exercise: Hasty mine laying and clearing exercises.

Third exercise: Reconnoitering crossing and bridge sites; reconnoitering, constructing, and crossing fords; building, equipping, and operating a 4-ton pneumatic-float ferry; construction of footbridges.

Seventh week

First exercise: Attaching demolition charges to small bridges and other objects.

Second exercise: Clearing lanes through mine fields.

Third exercise: Breaching different types of obstacles.

Eighth week

Construction of short emergency bridges; repairing damaged parts of a bridge; reinforcing bridges ; building approaches and exits; construction of an 8.5-ton duckboard treadway bridge. 

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