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les following Long." You are Scott. Required: (a) What instructions do you give Hunt? (b) What do you do up to the time you reach the main road at 511? Situation II: After you have passed road fork in _Table Rock_ about 100 yards you notice that Hunt who has been watching to the rear does not seem to be alert. You look back and can see no sign of the connecting file in rear of you. It is still dark. Required: What do you do? Second Problem: An Advance Guard Point--General Situation same as in Problem I: Sergeant Hill and four men constitute the point. The situation has been explained to Sergeant Hill by the advance party commander. About daylight the point arrives at crossroads 600. A sharp fire evidently from about a squad is received from the house on the rise 500 yards north along the road. You are Sergeant Hill. Required: What do you do? Third Problem: An Advance Guard Flank Patrol--Situation I--General Situation same as Problem I: Up to daylight no flank patrols have been sent out. When the support reaches Table Rock the support commander calls Corporal Bell and says to him "Corporal take your squad as a flank patrol up this road to the right. Take the left hand road at the first two road forks and follow the road past the church and school-house until you reach this road again about 1-1/2 miles north of here. Report every thing you have seen when you rejoin. Your squad consists of seven men besides yourself." Required: (a) The disposition of your squad on the march. (b) What do you do when you hear the firing near crossroads 600? Fourth Problem: Platoon as Advance Party--Situation--General Situation same as in the First Problem: When you arrive at a point about 200 yards south of hill 646 you hear firing 1000 yards north of you. You cannot see who is firing nor can you see the point. You are Lieutenant Clark commanding the advance party. Required: What do you do? Visibility Problems: (a) When the point arrives at hill 647 can it see the crossroads 610 to the northeast? (b) When the flank patrol reaches Benders' Church crossroads can it see an enemy patrol at the house midway on the road 534-554 one mile to the northeast? (c) Looking north along the Center Mills road from hill 647 where does the road first become invisible? * * * * * MAP: HUNTERSTOWN SHEET. General Situation: The Harvard regiment encamped on the n
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