Excerpt from Provisional Infantry Training Manual 1918: Minimum Specifications for Trained Infantry; Training Methods
Physical training of the soldier to be so directed that he will be enabled with readiness to qualify in the following tests:
1. Muscular development.
Strength tests.
"Chin up" 8 times.
Dip 6 times. (If installation is practicable from ground without apparatus.)
2. Agility or muscular efficiency.
Running tests (service uniform without coat. No equipment):
50 yards in 7 seconds.
100 yards in 14 seconds.
220 yards in 35 seconds.
? mile in 4 minutes.
Running tests (complete field equipment, including ammunition).
100 yards in 20 seconds.
Jumping tests (service uniform without coat. No equipment):
Standing broad jump 7 feet.
Running broad jump 12 feet.
Running high jump 3? feet.
Jumping course test:
50 ft. course of three 4 ft. ditches and three 2? ft. hurdles.
Vault fence 4? feet high.
Scaling (service uniform without coat. No equipment): Scale with readiness wall 7 feet high.
Climbing (service uniform without equipment):
Climb 20 foot rope in 30 seconds. If installation is practicable.
Climb or scale 100 yards of hill slope near camp in number of minutes set by average of Company.
Digging (in connection with intrenching):
Excavate in medium earth with short handled shovel:
1 cubic yard in 1 hour.
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