Provisional Manual For Ordnance Field Service September 1919

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ISBN 13 : 9781332229376
Total Pages : 206 pages
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Download or read book Provisional Manual for Ordnance Field Service written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Provisional Manual for Ordnance Field Service: Prepared in the Office of the Chief of Ordnance September, 1919 Army Regulations 1913 states as follows: The Chief of Ordnance of the Army is charged with the duty of Procuring, by purchase or manufacture, and distributing the necessary ordnance and ordnance stores for the Army (par. 1511). Ordnance and ordnance stores include cannon and artillery vehicles, and equipments; apparatus and machines for the service and maneuver of artillery; small arms, ammunition and accouterments; horse equipments and harness for Field Artillery, and horse equipments for Cavalry and other mounted men; tools, machinery and materials for the Ordnance service; and all property of whatever nature supplied to the Military Establishment by the Ordnance Department (par. 1512). The operations in the A. E. F. in France were conducted in accordance with these paragraphs. The principal duties of the Ordnance Department in the theater of operations of one or more armies in the field are supply and maintenance. To these must be added the ordnance technical and engineering functions which are necessary in assisting supply and maintenance, and for furnishing the office of the Chief of Ordnance, or other similar agency, technical information necessary for the correction of defects and improvements in design. The organization necessary for this purpose, as deduced from experience in the war with Germany of 1917-18, includes a central office of control and direction (that of the chief ordnance officer); base port organizations, if there be overseas shipments; a series of base port depots for general supplies and for ammunition; a series of intermediate depots for general supplies and for ammunition, and a series of advance storehouses for general supplies and for ammunition. There will normally also be a chain of shops for maintenance purposes, including at least one group with capacity for relining guns, rebuilding carriages, etc. The above all pertain to the service of supply in the area in rear of the fighting sector. In addition there is the service in the area of the armies in active operation, which includes, for each army, a central office of control (that of the army ordnance officer), an army general supply ordnance depot with the requisite number of branches, the necessary number of ammunition parks and dumps and the system of shops in the army area which are used for both maintenance and supply. There are also the organizations of the corps ordnance officer and the division ordnance officer. In the supply work, it is the duty of the office of the chief ordnance officer to determine from information as to troops obtained from the General Staff, requirements of ordnance and ordnance stores of all classes required for the armies in the field and to submit timely requisitions so as to insure that supplies are available to fill requisitions made for the base depots. The operations of all of the depots within the service of supply are controlled from the office of the chief ordnance officer, although local requisitions may be filled from any depot under general authority. The base depots are the receiving and distributing points of all incoming stores and also serve the troops in the vicinity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com