164 MANTTAI POR NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICERS. 



Gaits are regulated as in pars. 337-a, &. (Fig. 34.) 

 This is one of the movements referred to in par. 468-1). 

 In the dismounted execution of tlie movement at quick time 

 the leader commands : 1. Squad, 2. HALT, as soon as the lead- 

 ing element has advanced to the point where it is desired that 

 the line shall form (par. S39-a, h, c). Only the leading (base) 

 element halts at the command, each rear element halting as it 

 arrives on the line (par. 337-/). If executed while marching 

 in double time, the leader similarly commands : 1. ftuick time, 

 2. MARCH, the reduced gait being taken successively by the 

 elements as they reach their positions (par. 337-/). If march- 

 ing in quick time, and double time be included in the com- 

 mand, the command for the increased gait applies only to the 

 rear elements (par. 337-/). 



398. To prevent the inversion of twos or troopers in their 

 respective fours the squad in column of twos or column of 

 troopers should form line to the left front when the squad is 

 right in front (par. 370), and vice versa. 



399. Being in column of twos or troopers, to form column of 

 fours: 1. Column, 2. MARCH. (See Def. Column.) 



The leading element is the base and follows the leader. 

 If in column of twos the rear two of the leading four 

 obliques at a correspondingly faster gait (par. 335) and takes 



its proper place 

 abreast of, and to 

 the right or left of, 

 --—^ the leading two of 



COMMAND: I. COLUMN, Z.MARCH that fOUr, SO that the 



Fig. 41, par. 399. troopers of the four 



shall appear from 

 right to left, in the order of their respective numbers. All 

 the other twos take up a correspondingly faster gait than the 

 leading two, and the fours form successively from head to 

 rear in the column irr the manner indicated above (par. 

 331). The leading two of each four, other than the leading 

 four, takes the gait of the head of the column (or halts) when 

 at 4 feet from the corresponding two of the four next in front. 

 In each four the rear two begins to oblique as the leading two 

 of that four approaches the position where it decreases the 

 gait (or halts). 



