Infantry Drill Regulations, United States Army, 1911 | Page 3

in the duties incident to campaign.
Assumed situations are employed. Each exercise should conclude with

a discussion, on the ground, of the exercise and principles involved.
(d) The combat exercise, a form of field exercise of the company,
battalion, and larger units, consists of the application of tactical
principles to assumed situations, employing in the execution the
appropriate formations and movements of close and extended order.
Combat exercises must simulate, as far as possible, the battle
conditions assumed. In order to familiarize both officers and men with
such conditions, companies and battalions will frequently be
consolidated to provide war-strength organizations. Officers and
noncommissioned officers not required to complete the full quota of the
units participating are assigned as observers or umpires.
The firing line can rarely be controlled by the voice alone; thorough
training to insure the proper use of prescribed signals is necessary.
The exercise should be followed by a brief drill at attention in order to
restore smartness and control.
7. In field exercises the enemy is said to be imaginary when his
position and force are merely assumed; outlined when his position and
force are indicated by a few men; represented when a body of troop
acts as such.
General Rules for Drills and Formations.
8. When the preparatory command consists of more than one part, its
elements are arranged as follows:
(1) For movements to be executed successively by the subdivisions or
elements of an organization: (a) Description of the movement; (b) how
executed, or on what element executed.
(2) For movements to be executed simultaneously by the subdivisions
of an organization: (a) The designation of the subdivisions; (b) the
movement to be executed.

9. Movements that may be executed toward either flank are explained
as toward but one flank, it being necessary to substitute the word "left"
for "right," and the reverse, to have the explanation of the
corresponding movement toward the other flank. The commands are
given for the execution of the movements toward either flank. The
substitute word of the command is placed within parentheses.
10. Any movement may be executed either from the halt or when
marching, unless otherwise prescribed. If at a halt, the command for
movements involving marching need not be prefaced by forward, as 1.
Column right (left), 2. MARCH.
11. Any movement not specially excepted may be executed in double
time.
If at a halt, or if marching in quick time, the command double time
precedes the command of execution.
12. In successive movements executed in double time the leading or
base unit marches in quick time when not otherwise prescribed; the
other units march in double time to their places in the formation
ordered and then conform to the gait of the leading or base unit. If
marching in double time, the command double time is omitted. The
leading or base unit marches in quick time; the other units continue at
double time to their places in the formation ordered and then conform
to the gait of the leading or base unit.
13. To hasten the execution of a movement begun in quick time, the
command: 1. Double time, 2. MARCH, is given. The leading or base
unit continues to march in quick time, or remains at halt if already
halted; the other units complete the execution of the movement in
double time and then conform to the gait of the leading or base unit.
14. To stay the execution of a movement when marching, for the
correction of errors, the command: 1. In place, 2. HALT, is given. All
halt and stand fast, without changing the position of the pieces. To
resume the movement the command: 1. Resume, 2. MARCH, is given.

15. To revoke a preparatory command, or, being at a halt, to begin
anew a movement improperly begun, the command, AS YOU WERE, is
given, at which the movement ceases and the former position is
resumed.
16. Unless otherwise announced, the guide of a company or subdivision
of a company in line is right; of a battalion in line or line of
subdivisions or of a deployed line, center; of a rank in column of
squads, toward the side of the guide of the company.
To march with guide other than as prescribed above, or to change the
guide: Guide (right, left, or center).
In successive formations into line, the guide is toward the point of rest;
in platoons or larger subdivisions it is so announced.
The announcement of the guide, when given in connection with a
movement, follows the command of execution for that movement.
Exception: 1. As skirmishers, guide right (left or center), 2. MARCH.
(C.I.D.R., No. 2.)
17. The turn on the fixed pivot by subdivisions is used in all formations
from line into column and the reverse.
The turn on the moving pivot