Outdoor Personal Reference Library- From Field Manuals to Stories of Adventure
" These beautiful days must enrich all my life. They do not exist as mere pictures- maps hung upon the walls of memory- but they saturate themselves into every part of my body and live always." ~ John Muir Years ago when I went to the Basic Non-commission Officer Course. One of the things instructors told us was that as a Non-commission Officer (NCO). It was not our job to know everything. But it was our job to know where to find the information. We would have a milk crate of Army Regulations (ARs), Field Manuals (FM), and Technical Manuals (TMs), to reference to find answers to all the different things that we must know as NCOs. This dates me, but I remember when my sergeant carried a map bag with field manuals to the field. When we had some dead time, the sergeant would conduct hip-pocket training. He would read or reference the manual for the tasks, conditions, and standards we were training on. If you have been in the Boy Scouts. You might remember that you had a h