Excerpt from Military Sketching and Map Reading: For Non-Commissioned Officers (Illustrated) This book was written to fulfill the following urgent requirements: 1. A textbook of Military Sketching and Map Reading within the comprehension of the average non-commissioned officer of the Mobile Land Forces. 2. A textbook which will relieve organization commanders of devising a new course each year and which will standardize the instruction and furnish a uniform basis for the prescribed tests by battalion commanders and inspectors. 3. A textbook in which Military Sketching and Map Reading go hand in hand, each being an amplification of the other. 4. A textbook in lesson form, each lesson being carefully planned as to the amount and proper sequence of its subject matter, and the number of lessons being such that the course may be completed within the time usually available for this subject in the Garrison School Course for Non-Commissioned Officers. The author bases his knowledge of the capacity of the average non-commissioned officer upon observations made during three years in which he was engaged on duty in connection with the Progressive Military Map of the United States and the Philippine Islands, four years in which he instructed the non-commissioned officers of the companies to which he was assigned, and during the past two years as Officer in Charge of Map Section, Military Information Division, Manila, P. I. While on duty in connection with the Progressive Military Map he was assisted by enlisted men form the various branches of the Mobile Army, and since being on duty in the Military Information Division, it has been one of his routine duties to review the vast number of sketches turned in to be filed. In view of the above observations, it is believed that a knowledge of the subject matter of this book should be readily acquired by the average non-commissioned officer. 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.