Training in knot-tying for engineer soldiers, in the form of an obstacle race
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Titolo
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Training in knot-tying for engineer soldiers, in the form of an obstacle race
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Article Title and/or Image Caption
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Title: Knot-tying obstacle race
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Subtitle: Engineer soldiers learn the ropes at Fort Belvoir and risk their necks to prove their handiwork
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KNOTS are as important to engineer
soldiers as to sailors. Other soldiers’
lives often depend on the engineers’ ability
to tie knots which will stay tied. At the
Engineer Replacement Training Center,
Fort Belvoir, Va. trainees are given 17
scheduled hours of instruction in knot-tying.
If old-fashioned Army teaching methods
were used, the subject would be boring, but
Major I J. Dalton, of the Pioneer Section,
and Captain C. W. Kull, of the Rigging Sub-
section, have made it 50 interesting that the
trainees devote much of their scanty spare
time to study of the knot-tying art. High
spot of the instruction is the trip that each
trainee must take over the “knot obstacle
course.” This proficiency test is spiced
with the elements of competition and physi-
cal hazard. “One bad knot,” the boys say,
“and you go down like hell!” The obstacle
course consists of three 20-foot-high timber
towers, which the trainees ascend and de-
scend by means of rope ladders, slings, and
other rigging devices made secure by knots
which they tie themselves. Grand finale
is a triumphant coast from the last tower
to the ground in a bowline on a bight.
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Lingua
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eng
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Data di rilascio
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1944-02
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pagine
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86-87
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Diritti
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by
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Lorenzo Chinellato
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
