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(c) The leader so controls the movements of the base as to 

 facilitate the execution of the movement in accordance with 

 (&), above. This will involve halting the base whenever cer- 

 tain movements (e. g., those from column into line) are 

 executed in quick time. 



{(l) If double time be included In the preparatory command 

 for a movement, the indication is obeyed in accordance with 

 the principles of par. 337. 



(c) In movements from line into column, and in other simi- 

 lar movements, if executed at attention, the troopers while 

 w^aiting to take their places in the column do not halt unless 

 halt be commanded by a platoon (or troop) commander. They 

 mark time instead if necessary for the execution of the move- 

 ment. 



(/) In applying the rules for mounted movements to move- 

 ments on foot quick time will be understood where walk is re- 

 ferred to and double time where any faster gait is referred to. 



( g ) Any exceptions to the above rules are stated where they 

 occur. 



Section 7. The School of the Squad. 



340. As soon as the troopers are suflaciently advanced in 

 their instruction in the School of the Trooper they will be 

 grouped into temporary squads for elementary collective in- 

 struction. This instruction will be conducted in accordance 

 with the general principles indicated in par. 42 ; progress 

 therein should be so regulated that no collective movement 

 will be taken up until the trooper, by previous individual in- 

 struction, has been properly prepared for its execution. 



341. Instruction in the School of the Squad is intended pri- 

 marily to teach recruits the elementary movements upon which 

 the entire drill is based. It may be recurred to wiienever nec- 

 essary in cases w^here troopers evidence the need of further 

 elementary w^ork. 



342. For elementary collective instruction groups of not to 

 exceed six or eight men can be used to best advantage. The 

 actual instruction of each group should be conducted by a 

 noncommissioned officer, but the instruction must be closely 

 supervised by a commissioned officer (par. 37). 



