General Orders

25. During courses, as a part of them and in connection with the subject in hand, approved lectures will be delivered from time to time by Army and Navy officers and civilians, and approved visits for purposes of study will be made by student officers to fields of campaign and positions of battle, to warships in course of construction and in commisison, to powder and guncotton factories, to electrical and cable works, and to power plants.

26. The outline of the courses of study for officers will be as follows:

I. Department of Artillery and Land Defense.

Regular course.

(1) Coast Artillery matériel.-Guns; mortars; carriages; emplacements; ammunition; fire control apparatus.

(2) Gunnery.—Principles and applications of ballistics; seacoast engineering as applied to artillery defense; subcaliber practice; battery service practice; battle command service practice.

(3) Artillery defense.-Forms of naval attack; warships; places to be defended; nature, extent, and disposition of armament; organization; battle tactics.

(4) Land defense.—Minor tactics as applied to the attack and defense of coast forts; organization; topography and sketching; fortifications; field engineering; shelter and sanitation.

(5) Explosives.-Practical laboratory work and problems involving fundamental chemical principles; examination, study, and tests of explosives; demolitions; explosives for submarine mines.

Advanced course.

(1) Artillery defense, advanced.-Fortification; organization; battle tactics; service of security and information; cooperation of Army and Navy; military history.

(2) Land defense, advanced.-Minor tactics; organization; supply; shelter; sanitation; field fortification; field engineering; plans for national defense; duties of the general staff.

(3) Explosives, advanced.—Practical laboratory work and problems; experimental firing to illustrate effect on detona

tion of varying physical surroundings; manufacture of and specifications for explosives.

Special course in ballistics.

Exterior ballistics; the principal and secondary problems; accuracy and the theory of errors; the calculation of constants, including the coefficient of form and the drift constant; classification of trajectories; deduction of empirical formulas; practical work in setting up, adjusting, and using ballistic machines; interior ballistics; relation of maximum pressure to charges; mode of combustion of powder and its relation to pressures; characteristics of a powder; variations; recoil.

Special course in explosives.

Tinning and galvanizing wire used in cable manufacture; analysis of oils; analysis of rubber compounds; gas analysis; special investigations on explosives.

II. Department of Engineering and Mine Defense.

Regular course.

(1) Electrical engineering.-Theory of electricity and magnetism; batteries, primary and secondary; electrical instruments and measurements; switchboards and power distribution; testing cables and installations; fire-control apparatus, care and operation; installation and maintenance of submarine fire-control cables, and the maintenance and the making of ordinary repairs of electrical equipment in seacoast fortifications; searchlight operation; directcurrent generators and motors-principles, operations, simple tests.

(2) Mechanical and steam engineering.-Shafting, belting, lubricants; boilers and accessories, care and operation; steam engines, care and operation; oil and gasoline engines, care and operation; examination, tests, and uses of oils.

(3) Submarine mining.-Mine apparatus; loading, planting, operating, and maintaining mines.

Advanced course.

(1) Electrical engineering, advanced.-Fire-control apparatus and searchlights, experimentation, operation, and plans for installation; direct-current system of power dis

tribution; complete tests of machinery; plans for installation; alternating currents; fundamental problems; instruments and measurements; alternating system of current distribution; complete tests of apparatus; plans for installation; wireless telegraphy and telephony.

(2) Mechanical and steam engineering, advanced.— Thermodynamics of the steam engine; boilers and accessories, complete test; steam engines, complete test; internal combustion engines, complete test; power plant installation; economics of power plant operation; calorific value of fuel; analysis of chimney gas.

(3) Mine defense.-Testing mine apparatus; mining and mine projects with their relation to all other elements of the defense.

EXAMINATIONS.

27. Examinations will be held as soon as practicable after the close of instruction in each subject under such rules as the school board may prescribe, and the practical exercises and problems must be identical for all student officers taking the examinations.

28. In case a student officer can not be examined at the regular time, owing to sickness or other cause, he will be examined as soon as practicable after return to duty. For this deferred examination the practical exercises and problems will be similar to those given at the regular examination.

29. The attainment of 75 per centum of the maximum will be considered a satisfactory examination.

30. An officer declared deficient in any subject may apply at once, in writing, for a reexamination, and such reexamination, if authorized by the school board, will be held with as little delay as practicable.

31. Officers unable to complete the entire course will be furnished with certificates of proficiency, signed by the commandant, in those subjects successfully completed.

GRADUATION.

32. An officer who passes successfully through the entire course of instruction in either the regular course or the advanced course will be furnished with a diploma setting forth his proficiency.

33. For record at the school and at the War Department the class in the regular course will be arranged as follows:

(a) Honor graduates: Those recommended by the school board from the head of the class down in regular order and not exceeding five. They will be designated in the Army Register as "Honor Graduates, Coast Artillery School, 191-."

(b) Distinguished graduates: Those who, in addition to the honor graduates, are recommended as qualified to take the advanced course. They will be designated in the Army Register as "Distinguished Graduates, Coast Artillery School, 191-."

(c) Graduates: Those who, in addition to the honor graduates and distinguished graduates, have successfully completed the course. They will be designated in the Army Register as "Graduates, Coast Artillery School, 191-."

34. For publication, the names of honor graduates, distinguished graduates, and graduates will be arranged alphabetically upon three separate lists.

35. For record at the school and at the War Department the class in the advanced course upon graduation will be designated as follows:

Graduates: Those who have successfully completed the advanced course. They will be designated in the Army Register as "Graduates, advanced course, Coast Artillery School, 191-."

36. For publication, the names of all graduates of the advanced course will be arranged alphabetically upon one list.

37. Officers graduated from the Coast Artillery School will be exempt from professional examinations for promotion to the grade next above that held by them at graduation in all subjects covered by their diplomas for the following periods: (1) Regular course

(a) Honor graduates, five years.

(b) Distinguished graduates, four years.

(2) Advanced course graduates, six years.

38. The commandant will forward to The Adjutant General of the Army at the close of each school year a report of the standing of members of the officers' classes.

ENLISTED MEN'S DIVISION.

39. The outline of the courses for enlisted men embraced in the department of enlisted specialists will be as follows: (1) Electrical course.-Fundamental principles of electrical knowledge and their application; use of electrical measuring instruments and devices; generators and motors, alternating current and direct current; cable testing and general line work; construction, operation, and upkeep of firecontrol system, and the making of all ordinary repairs to electrical equipment in seacoast fortifications; installation and maintenance of submarine fire-control cables; telephones and storage batteries; searchlights; interior and exterior wiring, cable splicing, repair work; radio telegraphy and telephony; machine-shop practice and principles of power-plant operation.

(2) Artillery course.-Mathematics to include algebra, plane geometry, plane trigonometry and logarithms; seacoast engineering; surveying and topography; photography and photoprinting; artillery matériel, position finding, and range tables; construction of war game matériel and instruction in the mechanical operation of the devices used; mechanical drawing, chart-making, and tinting; machineshop practice, including use of hand and machine tools.

(3) Clerical course.-Stenography and typewriting; correspondence to include preparation of official papers, briefing, indexing, and filing; general office training and practical work.

(4) Radio course.-Mathematics to include plane trigonometry; fundamental principles of electrical instruments and devices; generators and motors, alternating current and direct current; storage batteries and gas engines; radio telegraphy and telephony, both theoretical and practical, including installation and maintenance of radio apparatus.

40. Students in the department of enlisted specialists will consist of the following: Such candidates for appointment to the grades of master gunner, electrician sergeant, second class, sergeant major, junior grade, and such candidates for radio operator as may be designated by the War Department; such master electricians, engineers, electrician sergeants, master gunners, sergeants major, and firemen as may be designated by the Secretary of War; and, in addi

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