FM 4-5: Coast Artillery Field Manual Seacoast Artillery Organization and Tactics

FM 4-5 Coast Artillery Field Manual Seacoast Artillery Organization and Tactics

FM 4-5

Coast Artillery Field Manual Seacoast Artillery Organization and Tactics

Army · FM · Jan 1940 · 218 pages

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FM 4-5 DECLASSIFIED RESOVD COAST ARTILLERY FIELD MANUAL SEACOAST ARTILLERY ORGANIZATION AND TACTICS (The matter contained herein supersedes part one, Coast Artillery Field Manual, volume I, January 3, 1933.) PART ONE ORGANIZATION CHAPTER 1 FUNDAMENTALS OF ORGANIZATION U 1. MILITARY ORGANIZATION.--a. A military organization is a group of troops operating as a unit under a leader or commander, and performing a particular duty or class of duties. Two important factors influencing organization of units are control of the unit and duty to be performed by the unit. b. There is a limit to the number of individuals that a single commander can control effectively. To insure effective control, an organization containing more individuals than can be controlled by a single commander is subdivided into several smaller organizations, each functioning under its own commander.

DesignationFM 4-5

EditionJan 1940

StatusSuperseded

Pages218

FunctionFires

CollectionHistoric

Public domain (U.S. Government work)

References 12

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