LOADING CARRIERS
A – INSTRUCTOR’S NOTES
Aim
1. To teach the soldier to load the various vehicles in the machine gun platoon.
Class and instructors
2. Squads should work under their squad instructors, by be controlled by a supervising officer.
Periods
3. One 45-minute period.
Stores
4. Platoons commander’s carrier, 2 IC’s jeep and trailer, section commander’s carrier and gun carrier. Complete stores as per G.1098 for each vehicle.
Preparation
5. The vehicles should be drawn up in line and loaded beforehand. Blackboards, if available, should be prepared showing the list of stores carried in each type of vehicle.
B – CONDUCT OF LESSON
Approach
6. Give the aim of the lesson (see para 1 above). Explain that there is no fixed drill for loading, but that it is the duty of the senior number in each vehicle to ensure that the stores are complete and loaded in such a manner that they will not become damaged.
Loading vehicle
7. Squads should move to each vehicle in turn. Squad instructors should explain what personnel ride in the vehicles, where their personal arms are carried and the stores loaded.
8. The squads should be practised in loading each type of vehicle.
9. Personnel and their personal weapons are distributed as follows:-
- Platoon commander’s carrier.
- 2 IC’s jeep and trailer.
- Each section commander’s carrier.
- Each gun carrier.
- Motor cycle.
10. The following stores are carried in each type of vehicle:-
| Stores (a) |
Platoon Commander’s carrier (b) |
Platoon 2 IC jeep and trailer (c) |
Each section commander’s carrier (d) |
Each gun carrier (e) |
| Vickers .303-inch MG | – | – | – | 1 |
| Tripod | – | – | – | 1 |
| Dial sight (in case) | – | – | – | 1 |
| Condenser can | – | – | 1 | 2 |
| Condenser tube | – | – | – | 1 |
| Spare parts case | – | – | – | 1 |
| Spare parts box | – | – | 1 | – |
| Aiming post | – | – | – | 1 |
| Aiming lamp | – | – | – | 1 |
| Spare barrel | – | – | – | 1 |
| Cleaning rod | – | – | – | 1 |
| Case, cans oil | – | 1 | 1 | – |
| Zero posts | – | – | 2 | – |
| Instrument box | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Director No. 9 (in case) | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Stand, director | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Rangefinder (in case) | – | – | 1 | – |
| Megaphone | 1 | 1 | 1 | – |
| “Spider” | – | – | – | 1 |
| Belts SAA Mk 8Z | 12 | 12 | 18 | 19 |
| Rifles | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Machine carbines | – | 2 | 1 | – |
| Magazines, machine carbines | – | 16 | 8 | – |
| Pistols .38-inch | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Bren LMG | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Boxes Bren, magazine | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| 3.5-in. RL | – | – | 1 | – |
| 3.5-in. RL, rockets | – | – | 6 | – |
| Pistols, signal | 1 | 1 | 1 | – |
| Cartridges, illuminating | 6 | 6 | 6 | – |
| Cartridges, signal, red | 6 | 6 | 6 | – |
| Cartridges, signal, green | 6 | 6 | 6 | – |
| Grenades | – | 12 | – | – |
| No. 31 set complete | 2 | 1 | 1 | – |
| No. 88 set complete | 1 | 1 | 1 | – |
| Entrenching tools | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Hack saw | – | – | 1 | – |
| Matchet | – | – | 1 | – |
| Wire cutters | – | – | 1 | – |
| Picks | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Shovels | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Axes, hand | – | 1 | 1 | – |
| Nets, camouflage 25ft. x 12ft. | 1 | – | 1 | 1 |
| Nets, camouflage 14ft. x 14ft. | – | 1 | – | – |
| Cooker No. 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| First aid box | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Packs | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| Blankets | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
Conclusion
11. Questions from the squad.
12. Sum up main items in each vehicle.
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