Infantry Drill Regulations, United States Army |
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adjutant advance alignment attack band base battalion bayonet brigade cartridges changes direction colonel color guard column of companies Column of Masses column of squads command march company officers dress drum major enemy escort executed field music file closers firing line flank formation forms line forward front into line front rank full distance Full step guard mounting Guide center Guide right guy ropes inches inspection interval left hand lieutenant line of columns line of masses line of squads load mands March in Column March in Line movement moves noncommissioned officers noncommissioned staff oblique order arms paces in front paces in rear pany parade rest passing piece pins point of rest port arms prescribed QUICKSTEP rear rank regiment resume reviewing officer right front right guide right hand right or left salute second command sergeant major six paces skirmishers Squads right left staff officers takes post three paces troops turn
Popular passages
Page 25 - At the command march, given as either foot strikes the ground, advance and plant the other foot ; bring up the foot in rear and continue the cadence by alternately raising each foot about 2 inches and planting it on line with the other. Being at a halt, at the command march, raise and plant the feet as described above.
Page 26 - To the rear, 2. MARCH. At the command march, given as the right foot strikes the ground, advance and plant the left foot; turn to the right about on the balls of both feet and immediately step off with the left foot.
Page 64 - Sir, all present or accounted for, or the names of the unauthorized absentees, and, without command, takes his post. If the company can not be formed by squads, the first sergeant commands : 1. Inspection, 2. ARMS, 3. Right shoulder, 4. ARMS, and calls the roll. Each man, as his name is called, answers here and executes order arms.
Page 171 - The detail is correct; or, (So many) sergeants, corporals, or privates are absent...
Page 148 - ... their staffs and orderlies place themselves respectively on the left of the staff and orderlies of the reviewing officer; all others who accompany the reviewing officer place themselves on the left of his staff, their orderlies in rear.
Page 24 - The length of the full step in quick time is 30 inches, measured from heel to heel, and the cadence is at the rate of 120 steps per minute. The length of the full step in double time is 36 inches; the cadence is at the rate of 180 steps per minute. The instructor, when necessary, indicates the cadence of the step by calling one, two, three, four...
Page 24 - The instructor, when necessary, indicates the cadence of the step by calling one, two, three, four, or left, right, the instant the left and right foot, respectively, should be planted.
Page 205 - When an officer enters a room where there are soldiers, the word "Attention" is given by some one who perceives him, when all rise and remain standing in the position of a soldier until the officer leaves the room. Soldiers at meals do not rise.
Page 206 - The field music assembles at first call and guard mounting. In a mixed command, boots and saddles is the signal to mounted troops that their formation is to be mounted ; for mounted guard mounting or mounted drill, it immediately follows the signal guard mounting or drill. When full dress or overcoats are to be worn, the full dress or overcoat call immediately follows first call, guard mounting, or boots and saddles. Formation Calls.
Page 29 - First. In all positions of the left hand at the balance (center of gravity, bayonet unfixed) the thumb clasps the piece; the sling is included in the grasp of the hand. Second. In all positions of the piece " diagonally across the body " the position of the piece, left arm and hand are the same as in port arms.