(a) One training company, as at present constituted, will form two platoons.
(b) The new organization contemplates four platoons to the company. When, for training purposes, a complete company is necessary or desirable, companies will be combined.
2. For a training company of two platoons, the 2nd in command (sergeant) of the first platoon is the right guide; the 2nd in command of the 2nd platoon is the left guide.
3. The platoons, in line or column, are arranged as at present.
4. The usual arrangement of a company for attack is to place two platoons in the 1st wave and two in the 2nd wave. The two platoons in the 1st wave are known as the assaulting platoons; the two in the 2nd wave, as the reinforcing platoons. The normal distance between the assaulting and reinforcing platoon is about 65 yards. Sometimes three platoons are placed in the 1st wave and one in the 2nd wave.
5. The first wave is followed, at a distance of 15 yards, by the hand grenadiers of the reinforcing platoon, who are sent forward by the commander of the reinforcing platoon to act as trench cleaners or moppers-up for the first wave. Fifty yards behind these is the remainder of the reinforcing platoon. There are no “moppers-up” for the reinforcing platoon.
6. The captain of a company has four liaison agents constantly with him, one being furnished from and for each platoon. They march immediately in rear of the captain.
7. The post of the captain is between the 1st and 2nd waves.