Does these old army field manuals have actual useful information about weapons, gear, tactics, etc, or are they all outdated and useless at this point?
Short answer: it depends
>>64295458yeah
>>64295458I bought a replica M1913 Patton saber for reasons. Downloaded the manual of arms for it, printed it and have practiced the standing drills. Don't have a horse yet, so the cavalry drills are a little less useful.>the spike is for picketing your horse in the field
>>64295492>dependsWhich ones would you recommend then and that would be useful to read?
>>64295511start with US Army Field Manual 30-31b, for sure
>>64295511Google TM Thirty one - Two hundred and tenBut use numerals instead of writing the numbers with words.It won't get you put on every single glow nigger watch list, trust me, I promise.
>>64295554literally useless if you don't have access to military issued supplies, unlike 30-31b
>>64295563>useless if you don't have access to military issued suppliesThe entire manuals is about improvising various explosives, incendiaries, and firearms from widely available commercial materials...
>>64295573No it isn't, retard. You've obviously never read it.
>>64295504>>the spike is for picketing your horse in the fieldw-where does the spike go anon???
>>64295630>w-where does the spike go anon???Brace yourself, Anon, this might be too dirty for you. The picket spike gets thrust into soft, fertile soil.
>>64295504Thats baller.
>>64295668I just came. Hard.
>>64295526/thread
>>64295794Yeah, if/when I get a horse I'll definitely make a spike and holster for the sword sheath.>>64295795Glad to be of service.
>>64295586This is page 7 of 31-210, you haven't read it either you dumb nigger
>>64295668Ew gross.
>>64296743Wait til you learn how the cavalryman was supposed to carry it.
>>64295965Where are you sourcing your potassium chlorate from?
they're pretty good.old, but good.
>>64297036I fucking hate this being posted all the time, it recommends heating a nitrate bath in a log fire.1) never heat a nitrate bath, they need to be cooled with ice to stop thermal runaway during nitration.2) don't have naked flames around your explosives productionThere are some things in there that are fine, there are others that are so retarded it's clear no chemists were involved in writing it.
>>64297027I know a guy
>>64295458I really don't get into a lot of the other stuff anons are interested in. I personally like this one which I found by sheer dumb luck. 1956 Navy electrical book, BASIC ELECTRICITY, NAVPERS 10086. Tells you what asbestos wrapped wires look like. Tells you how to Western Union splice a wire, which when soldered with good old 60/40 flux core leaded solder is fucking SOLID and will just about never come apart. Tells you exactly how a lot of things work and gives you the math if you might ever need it. Can't find an archive but here's some similar ones. Damn shame I can't find a scanned version as it's a nice book to have. 684 pages plus one blank in the back.https://ia601607.us.archive.org/18/items/BasicElectricity10622/BasicElectricity-10622-1945_text.pdfhttps://dn720209.ca.archive.org/0/items/basicelectricity00unit/basicelectricity00unit.pdf
>>64297513That sounds interesting as hell.>no scan versionfug
>>64297093surely there's books newer than 1969how many of these are there, anyway? as a neverserved it seems like the military fucking loves making books on everything ever needed, so it seems like there's be a bunch of books of just general 'things you can use every day' instead of just 'how to (badly) make bombs and field strip an AR'. things that would be useful and written for dumb 18 year olds, but if that's not the case i'd be a little disappointed
>>64297879also i assumed that because i'm thinking of all those old army/military videos that explain things like leading a target or how an automatic transmission works in basic terms and diagrams that let even an idiot like me get the gist of how things work
>>64297875its on the internet archivelink https://archive.org/details/BasicElectricity10086/mode/2up
>>64297879I'm a neverserved and just read a few out of curiosity, the only topic covered by them I'm knowledgeable about is explosives and it was a mix of solid advice and shit that'll likely get people killed.Knowing bureaucracies they probably gave a guy the job of writing it with no expert consult and he just asked around base leading to a mix of solid advice and myths. As for if they get input from experts these days I would need to see a modern one on explosives or electrical as those are the main topics I know well enough to judge it by.
>>64297879>how many of these are there, anyway?A fuckton. Many of them are ITAR-restricted or classified, though. The pub locker in my shop alone had around 150 pubs in hardcopy, the classified publications safe had quite a few more, and the division library had close to a thousand plus all the digitized stuff. For every rating/job you do, there's at least one training course and often several. You don't start getting into the reproduction-restricted stuff until pretty advanced courses. There's pubs on everything from knots to small-unit tactics to RADAR theory all the way down to the individual bays of a modular multi-purpose electronic test system. And one for fucking FORTRAN, unfortunately. >>64297883Yup, that's a lot of the basic courses. >>64297903>Knowing bureaucracies they probably gave a guy the job of writing it with no expert consult and he just asked around base leading to a mix of solid advice and myths.Usually it's a panel working on the modern ones but dumb shit still creeps in from time to time. The military still uses an uncommon model to describe electron flow, for example, but they also often have quick-and-dirty tricks for rapidly checking or estimating things.
>>64297875Page 149-162, or Internet Archives's viewer pagecount has it as page 160-174. The wire diagrams are very useful when working on older equipment. I find old oscilloscopes also have felted asbestos in the cords FWIW. Memorize and practice that Western Union splice. It can be done with decent stranded wire as well and heat shrunk over. Great wire repair IMO. I have at least one thing I can think of off the top of my head repaired with a soldered and heatshrunk Western Union splice if not multiple. Just remember to put the heat shrink on before soldering...been there, forgot that, not fun lol.>>64297894Thank you, anon. Shit would just not come up for me. Could only find every other later edition/replacement for this book.
>>64295458All the basics in this are still valid and useful. Well worth a read.
>>64297875IDK why I limited that to oscilloscopes. Pretty much any old lab equipment probably has it. Probably most 50s military equipment. Hell, even a lot of regular everyday stuff did probably including a lot of the neat old stuff with braided sheath cords. It's just a lot more noticeable when it isn't braided and has deteriorating rubber sheathing. Asbestos was in everything.
>>64295526this
>>64295504Check out that museum in the site link, great shit, "The Varnum Regiment House". Fuck yeah museums!
>>64297027hydroponic pot stores
>>64297513>>64297894These books are really useful. I have a reprinted version of the Navy's WWII book on Basic Machines that's essentially freshman Mech-E in booklet form.>>64298435>The Varnum Regiment House>Greenwich, RIRandom but it does look interesting, especially the Civil War section of the museum and the Lafayette Room.
>>64298361oh shoot, it's line a miniature version of the thing you do where you wrap two extension cables into each other before connecting them
>>64295526what's the deal with FM 30-31b anyway?
>>64295458The -23&P for the M16 is still relevant, still useful.
>>64298437How about your commercial #5 blasting caps?
>>64300093Huh, I never connected the two.
>>64295504How far down the rabbit hole did you go in researching replica quality? I started digging into it a couple years ago but decided it was taking too much time given that I was a several years away from being ready to buy a horse.
>>64297879>how many of these are there, anyway? as a neverserved it seems like the military fucking loves making books on everything ever needed,Here's one I could probably master.
>>64301151>How far down the rabbit hole did you go in researching replica quality?Far enough to know that anyone serious would laugh at my Windlass replica. The originals weren't all that well made, so it's probably close enough. Definitely good enough for practical practice with a sharp sword - the smiths sharpened it battle ready, I had to take the grind down along most of the length since it's supposed to just be the tip.My plan is to eventually buy an original on auction.
>>64301635>since it's supposed to just be the tipI thought the doctrine on those was that training would emphasize the thrust but the sword would be more than capable of the cut.
>>64301721It is. I have it's sharpness set in thirds going up the blade for both halfswording and grinding. It's more than capable of cutting on the draw or slash.
>>64300543Literally, actually factually Soviet agitprop/active measures. Aka bullshit to make the US look bad.
>>64300995according to brief cursory search you should be able to make them with 1800s chemistry setup
The DoD survival manuals. There are quite a few that cover mostly the same material.https://dn790002.ca.archive.org/0/items/Fm21-76SurvivalManual/FM21-76_SurvivalManual.pdf
give me more books, anons. gimme the weirdest, most esoteric "why is there a US army field manual on this" shit
>>64301869source?
>>64302999well then lets get nuclear
>>64295458Overall very basic. Will train you to minimum competency and that's about it.
Bump cause we need more survival manuals to read
