Section 1. Breaking camp and preparation for a march.
THE EVENING BEFORE THE MARCH.
When a command learns that it is to make a march on the following day, presumably starting early in the morning, certain details should be attended to the evening before.
All men should fill their canteens, as there will probably be no time for this in the morning.
The mess sergeant should find out whether lunch or the reserve ration will be carried on the march, and should attend to these details in the evening in order that the issue can be made promptly in the morning.
The stable sergeant will have the stable detail fill all of the feed bags for the morning's feed, and the section leaders will see that each of their men has filled his grain bag with the noon feed for the following day.
The commander of the guard should be given a memorandum as to what time to awaken the cooks and where their tent is. The member of the guard who does this should awaken them without noise, so as not to disturb the rest of the remainder of the command.
The cooks should be instructed as to what time breakfast is to be served and what time to awaken the first sergeant.
The cooks or cooks' police must cut and split all firewood for the morning before 9 p. m. There must be no chopping, talking, or rattling of pans before reveille which will disturb the rest of the command. This applies to every morning in camp.