Manual of Athletic Requirements, United States Naval Academy (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Manual of Athletic Requirements, United States Naval AcademyThe first independent duty an ensign usually performs after his sea assignment is going ashore with swimming parties or leading a division in setting-up Exercises. All officers are closely associated with their men for the first ten years of their career and they find that their men are intensely interested in all forms and manner of athletics. Officers are constantly interrogated concerning sports, training for the same, uniform worn and comparison of records (amateur and professional).It goes without saying that every ensign should also be able to swim, rescue persons helpless in the water and correctly apply resuscitation to the apparently drowned.There is no better method by which an Officer can acquire a correct understanding of his men than that of leading men in athletics. Young men in particular hold in great respect Officers Of athletic attainments and knowledge, consequently an efficient division is more readily Obtained by an officer having this asset.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.