escribe the movements
for turning on a moving pivot.
(b) Being in line, give the commands and describe the movements
for turning on a fixed pivot.
9. Being in any formation, assembled, give the commands and
describe the movements for deploying as skirmishers.
* * * * *
School of the Company:
1. Give the proper commands for the following movements:
(a) Company being in line, to march to the front in column of
squads. (Par. 183, i.d.r.)
(b) Company being in line, to form column of squads to the
flank. (Par. 178, i.d.r.)
(c) Company being in line, to form skirmish line. (Par. 206,
200, 202, i.d.r.)
(d) Company being in column of squads, to form line to the right
so the leading squad shall be on the right of the line.
(Par. 188, i.d.r.)
2. Being in line, to align the company. Give the commands and
explain the movement. (Pars. 175, 107, i.d.r.)
3. The company having gone from line into column of squads by the
command: "Squads right, March," state the position of the
captain, two lieutenants and right and left guides. (Pars. 163,
168 and Plate II, i.d.r.)
4. Show by diagram: (a) A company of two platoons in column of
platoons, (b) A company of three platoons in line of platoons.
(Plate II, i.d.r.)
5. What commands are given to form the company?
6. (a) Who is the pivot in executing "Company Left?"
(b) Who is the pivot in executing "Left Turn?"
Military Science and Tactics.
MINOR TACTICS.
MAP: GETTYSBURG--ANTIETAM (HUNTERSTOWN SHEET).
First Problem: An Advance Party--Situation I:
_Your battalion_ and the _machine gun_ company occupy _Center Mills_,
in enemy's country. The remainder of the _Harvard Regiment_ is
encamped _two miles north of Center Mills_. The Battalion has an
outguard _at J. Fohl, 1150 yards southeast_ of Center Mills. _It is
mid-winter;_ there is _no snow_, but the _streams are frozen_.
At 6.45 a.m., 1 Feb., 17, your battalion and the machine gun company
are _hurriedly assembled, pieces are loaded_, and the column, _your
company in the lead_, is marched out of town, over the southeast
road. Your captain calls the _officers and non-commissioned officers_
to the head of the company and gives the following verbal order:
_A Blue force, estimated at one battalion with machine guns, is
marching n
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