Training in Night Movements

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 19 Night Movements and Self-possession.?At night, one cannot tell at what distance or at what time there will be personal danger. If the enemy be heard, the danger seems the same whether he be a hundred, or only ten paces away. Therefore, a person of negative spirit feels the enemy pressing upon him, even...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 19 Night Movements and Self-possession.?At night, one cannot tell at what distance or at what time there will be personal danger. If the enemy be heard, the danger seems the same whether he be a hundred, or only ten paces away. Therefore, a person of negative spirit feels the enemy pressing upon him, even though in reality, he is far away; and an imaginary enemy becomes the same as a real one. Therefore, in order not to make rash and disorderly movements, causes must be judged cooly. HOW TO DRESS. The Requirements of Dress.?Dress must conform to the following requirements: 1. Speed. 2. Propriety. 3. Reliability. To carry out these requirements, training is necessary. It is a bad thing to attach too great weight to speed at first, and make light of propriety and reliability. Therefore, at first, the following requirements must be observed: 1. Do not demand useless rapidity, but rather coolness. 2. Proper arrangement. 3. As far as possible, quiteness should be preserved. The necessary things should be taken from their fixed places only when about to be put on, so as to avoid confusion. Coolness.?More haste, less speed. If one be confused, he will mistake the proper order or forget important things, and sometimes it will be necessary to change what has already been put on. Order.?Order is the shortest road, and if followed, there will be nothing forgotten. However hurried one may be, it is important not to curtail or change the order; therefore, it is necessary to plan carefully, the most suitable order of procedure?a practical impossibility for one without experience. For these reasons, it is a good thing to fix a suitable order of procedure, and carry it out strictly. Quietness.?At night, quietness is very necessary, especially in the proximit...