The Centurion and his horse questions.

[jkaler48]

John, I know you guys are working on an officer's "manual", but here's the problem with that. Why does that need to be done? There is scant evidence, as you say in determining whether or not the centurionate was mounted on the march...why do you feel you need to put it on paper? Best to leave it alone. It's not an integral part to any reenactor's impression, so why stretch it?

I think a REENACTMENT Officers manual written primarily by or with a large amount of input from experienced event and unit commanders might be useful. And I think a large part of the manual should be devoted to event organization issues like communicating with reenactors, other units, finding sites, ways to simulate things when they can't be done as done historically, how to stay current on new Archeological findings how to do research, funding and that sort of stuff rather than drill and commands which ought to be a separate issue.
I have suggested that an Officer's manual might be written but I am not qualified to write one and don't know if anyone has started on one yet.