Service Calls
[695]. Tattoo, taps, mess, sick, church, recall, issue, officers', captains', first sergeants', fatigue, school, and the general.
The general is the signal for striking tents and loading wagons preparatory to marching.
Reveille precedes the assembly for roll call; retreat follows the assembly, the interval between being only that required for formation and roll call, except when there is parade.
Taps is the signal for extinguishing lights; it is usually preceded by call to quarters by such interval as prescribed by Army Regulations.
Assembly, reveille, retreat, adjutant's call, to the color, the flourishes, ruffles, and the marches are sounded by all the field music united; the other calls, as a rule, are sounded by the musician of the guard or orderly musician; he may also sound the assembly when the musicians are not united.
The morning gun is fired at the first note of reveille, or, if marches be played before reveille, it is fired at the commencement of the first march.
The evening gun is fired at the last note of retreat. (807)
APPENDIX A
War Department,
Office of the Chief of Staff,
Washington, December 2, 1911.