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The English of military communications

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By William Addleman Ganoe
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A practical manual for military personnel that teaches clear, concise composition of orders, messages, reports, and official correspondence. It presents principles of brevity, accuracy, and audience awareness, links disciplined thinking to precise language, and supplies exercises, model field messages and orders, verbal-order techniques, operation-order formats, war-diary and report structures, and appendices of problems. Emphasis rests on avoiding ambiguity to prevent operational errors and on training officers to write and interpret instructions effectively.

APPENDICES[25]

APPENDIX

Forms of Complete Field Orders

While the following forms are given for the convenience of officers in the field, and with a view of securing uniformity in the service, it must be remembered that no two military situations are the same. The sequence in paragraph 3 is not obligatory, the commander arranging the details according to his best judgment.

For an advance.
Field Orders [Title]
No. — [Place]
[Reference to map used] [Date and hour]
Troops 1. [Information of enemy and of our supporting troops]
(a) Independent 2. [Plan of commander]
Cavalry: 3. (a) [Instructions for independent cavalry—place and time of departure, roads or country to be covered, special mission]
[Commander]
[Troops]
(b) Advance Guard: (b) [Instructions for advance guard—place and time of departure, or distance at which it is to precede the main body, route, special mission]
[Commander]
[Troops]
(c) Main Body—in (c) [Instructions for main body—distance at which it is to follow the advance guard, or place and time of departure]
order of march:
[Commander][26]
(d) Right [left] Flank Guard: (d) [Instructions for flank guard—place and time of departure, route, special mission]
[Commander]
[Troops]
(e) Signal Troops: (e) [Instructions for signal troops—lines of information to be established, special mission]
[Commander]
[Troops]
(x) [Instructions for outpost—when relieved, subsequent duties]
4. [Instructions for field train—escort, distance in rear of column, or destination when different from that of main body, if disposition not previously covered in “Orders”]
[Instructions for sanitary, ammunition, supply and engineer trains, when necessary]
5. [Place of commander or where messages may be sent]
[Authentication]
[How and to whom issued]