“‘1. Squad, 2. ATTENTION, and follow with 1. With ball cartridges, 2. LOAD.’
“I will then direct:
“‘MOVE OUT.’”
Procedure
The Director: “That is very good. I think you have covered all the points that should be included in the patrol commander’s order. I wish each member of the class would compare this order with the kind that is usually mumbled out to members of a patrol by the average patrol leader at maneuvers. It is a fact that most patrols go out, either with orders that they do not understand or with no orders at all. Do not allow this to be done under any circumstances. You can well afford to hold up the departure of the patrol until the patrol commander can dope out his orders and give them properly. And you must insist on this being done. If you do not do so it will never be done properly.
“Now I want each member of the class to write our Sergeant B’s orders to his patrol. Try to get the order in the language that Lieutenant Wallace used in his solution.”
When this is completed the papers are collected and redistributed as indicated in previous exercises. The class is now ready to proceed with the next situation.
Reconnoitering Patrol Card No. 2
Director’s Key
1. Each member of the class to consider himself as being Sergeant B.