Excerpt from The Standard Drill and Marching Book: Including Simple Directions for Training School Classes in Military Marching, the Military Manual of Arms, Dumb-Bell Drill and Exercises, Wand Drill, Farm and Home Fancy Drills, Holiday Drills and Marches, and a New Adaptation of National Singing Games I. Stand straight, heads up, chins in (most raw recruits when they put their heads up throw their chins out, which is very wrong), arms held close to the side (not swung loosely by the side), body straight and stiff (of course not too stiff, but without swaying or stooping while marching). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.