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148. For candidates in companies assigned to gun defence:

For second-class gunners—
(a) Service of the piece	25
(b) Guns and carriages	25
(c) Powders, projectiles, primers, and fuses	25
(d) Cordage, gins, shears, jacks	15
(e) U. S. magazine rifle	10
	——
	100
For first-class gunners—
(a) The azimuth instrument	20
(b) Duties in the plotting-room	50
(c) Aiming and laying guns and mortars	15
(d) Elementary gunnery	5
(e) Warships	10
	——
	100

149. The examination of candidates for first-class gunners of organizations assigned exclusively to rapid-fire guns not provided with separate position-finding system shall include the following head in lieu of that given above under (b):

(b) Subcaliber firing 50

150. The examination of candidates for first-class gunners shall be held as far as practicable at such places as the material or equipment pertaining to the subject in hand is located, i.e., at the guns or in the plotting-rooms.

151. The examination in subjects (a), (b), (c) for second-class gunners and in subjects (a), (b), (c) and (d) for first-class gunners shall be confined to the material of the battery and its accessories to which the company is assigned. If no azimuth instrument is included in the battery equipment, the instrument used in the company instruction shall be used in the examination. If for any cause beyond the power of the battery commander any part of this equipment has been removed from his control and has not been available for instruction for at least two months previous to the examination, such material shall form no part of the examination.

152. For candidates in companies and detachments assigned to mine defence:

For second-class gunners—
(a) Ammunition, nomenclature, and service of guns assigned
to the company of which the candidate is a member	15
(b) Material of and duties in the loading room (except
electrical principles involved)	35
(c) Material for and duties on water	30
(d) Cordage	10
(e) U. S. magazine rifle	10
	——
	100
For first-class gunners—
(a) Care and preservation of mine material	20
(b) Handling high explosives	20
(c) Knowledge and use of the azimuth instrument
and plotting-board	20
(d) Batteries, generators, and searchlights assigned to
the company of which candidate is a member	20
(e) Apparatus and operation of switchboard and care
and use of telephone	20
	——
	100

153. The qualifying mark for classification as first or second-class gunner shall be in each case not less than an average of 75 per centum. Whenever, during the progress of the examination of a candidate for either grade, the sum of the marks received on subjects in which he has already been examined, increased by the maximum allowed for the remaining subjects, is less than 75, his examination will be discontinued.

154. Instruction in the course for first or second-class gunner will be given to such men as the company commander may consider capable of mastering the prescribed schedules.

155. Men not receiving instruction in the gunners' classes will perform such duties at their batteries or elsewhere during the hours for instruction as their company commander, with the approval of the post commander, may direct.

156. The board shall keep a record of its marks during the examination, but these marks shall not be published in orders. The record of each company shall be sent to the artillery district commander as soon as possible after the completion of the examination, to be published immediately. The report of the board to be published in orders shall contain the names of those who have qualified as first and second-class gunners and recite the date of the report, which will be the date of the completion of the company examination in each case, the names being arranged for each organization in each class in muster-roll order.