Platoon guides in rear.
Columns should be 20 yards apart, or more.
(Used to take advantage of few favorable routes where cover is poor or ground difficult.)
Squad Columns.—Men oblique and follow squad leader. No advantage in cover, but used to advance more quickly over rough or brush grown ground.
(It might be desirable to teach men to take squad columns from column of squads.)
In assembling from Platoon or Squad columns, the men reform by platoons or squads and are conducted by their leaders to point indicated by captain.
Thin lines are used to cross wide stretches under artillery fire or heavy, long range rifle fire which cannot be profitably returned.
No. 1's Forward, March.
First line is led by platoon leader, right platoon.
Second line is led by platoon guide, right platoon.