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ute step or at ease the captains repeat the command of execution, if necessary. Captains do not repeat the major's commands in executing the manual of arms, nor those commands which are not essential to the execution of a movement by their companies, as _column of squads_, _first company_, _squads right_, etc. In giving commands or cautions captains may prefix the proper letter designations of their companies, as _A Company, HALT_; _B Company, squads right_, etc. 264. At the command _guide center (right_ or _left)_, captains command: _Guide right_ or _left_, according to the positions of their companies. _Guide center_ designates the left guide of the center company. 265. When the companies are to be dressed, captains place themselves on that flank toward which the dress is to be made, as follows: The battalion in line: Beside the guide (or the flank file of the front rank, if the guide is not in line) and facing to the front. The battalion in column of companies: Two paces from the guide, in prolongation of and facing down the line. Each captain, after dressing his company, commands: _FRONT_, and takes his post. The battalion being in line and unless otherwise prescribed, at the captain's command _dress_, or at the command _halt_, when it is prescribed that the company shall dress, the guide on the flank away from the point of rest, with his piece at right shoulder, dresses promptly on the captain and the companies beyond. During the dress he moves, if necessary, to the right and left only; the captain dresses the company on the line thus established. The guide takes the position of order arms at the command _front_. (_C.I.D.R., No. 2._) 266. The battalion executes the _halt_, _rests_, _facings_, _steps_ and _marchings_, _manual of arms_, resumes _attention_, _kneels_, _lies down_, _rises_, _stacks_ and _takes arms_, as explained in the Schools of the Soldier and Squad, substituting in the commands _battalion_ for _squad_. The battalion executes _squads right (left)_, _squads right (left) about_, _route step_ and _at ease_, and _obliques_ and resumes the _direct march_, as explained in the School of the Company. 267. The battalion in column of platoons, squads, twos, or files changes direction; in column of squads forms column of twos or files and re-forms columns of twos or squads, as explained in the School of the Company. 268. When the formation admits of the simultaneous execution by compa
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