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348. When Infantry and mounted troops dismounted are 

 united for guard mounting, all details form as prescribed for 

 Infantry. 



rORMAL GUAKD MOUNTING MOUNTED. 



(Extract Cavalry Drill Regulations, 1916.) 



857. Formal guard mounting will ordinarily be held only in 

 posts or camps where a band is present. At the assembly 

 the men of each troop designated for guard form at stand to 

 horse on their troop parade grounds, the noncommissioned 

 officers falling in as file closers; the supernumeraries do not 

 fall in ; each first sergeant verifies his detail and inspects the 

 dress and general appearance, replaces any man unfit to go 

 on guard, turns the detail over to the senior noncommissioned 

 officer, and retires. The senior noncommissioned officer then 

 mounts, draws saber, and causes the detail to mount. The 

 band, accompanied by the buglers, takes its place on the pa- 

 rade ground so that the left of its front rank shall be 12 yards 

 to the right of the rank when the guard is formed. 



858. At adjutant's call the adjutant takes post so as to be 

 12 yards in front of and facing the center of the guard when 

 formed ; the sergeant major takes post facing to the left 12 

 yards to the left of the front rank of the band ; the band plays 

 in appropriate time, the details are marched to the parade 

 ground by their senior noncommissioned officers; the detail 

 that arrives first is marched to the line so that upon halting 

 the head of the horse of the man on the right shall be on line 

 with and near to the sergeant major's horse, the noncommis- 

 sioned officer, having halted his detail, places himself facing 

 the sergeant major at a distance from him a little greater 

 than the front of his detail, and commands : DRESS. The 

 detail dresses on its right trooper; the noncommissioned 

 officers of the detail in the line of file closers rein back so as 

 to be 6 yards in rear of the rank ; the noncommissioned 

 officer in command of the detail then commands. Front, 

 salutes, and reports, TJie detail is correct, or {so many) ser- 

 geants, cor'porals, or privates are absent; the sergeant major 

 returns the salute ; the noncommissioned officer in charge of 

 the detail then passes by the right of the guard and takes 

 post on the line of noncommissioned officers in rear of the 



