paragraph will be ordered _right_ or
_left_, so as to restore the files to their normal relative positions
in the two or squad.

197. The movements prescribed in the three preceding paragraphs are
difficult of execution at attention and have no value as disciplinary
exercises.

198. Marching by twos or files can not be executed without serious
delay and waste of road space. Every reasonable precaution will be
taken to obviate the necessity for these formations.

EXTENDED ORDER.

_Rules for Deployment._

199. The command _guide right (left_ or _center)_ indicates the base
squad for the deployment; if in line it designates the actual _right
(left_ or _center)_ squad; if in column the command _guide right
(left)_ designates the _leading_ squad, and the command _guide center_
designates the _center_ squad. After the deployment is completed, the
guide is _center_ without command, unless otherwise ordered.

200. At the preparatory command for forming skirmish line, from either
column of squads or line, each squad leader (except the leader of the
base squad, when his squad does not advance), cautions his squad,
_follow me_ or _by the right (left) flank_, as the case may be; at the
command _march_, he steps in front of his squad and leads it to its
place in line.

201. Having given the command for forming skirmish line, the captain,
if necessary, indicates to the corporal of the base squad the point on
which the squad is to march; the corporal habitually looks to the
captain for such directions.

202. The base squad is deployed as soon as it has sufficient interval.
The other squads are deployed as they arrive on the general line; each
corporal halts in his place in line and commands or signals, _as
skirmishers_; the squad deploys and halts abreast of him.

If tactical considerations demand it, the squad is deployed before
arriving on the line.

203. Deployed lines preserve a general alignment toward the guide.
Within their respective fronts, individuals or units march so as best
to secure cover or to facilitate the advance, but the general and
orderly progress of the whole is paramount.

On halting, a deployed line faces to the front (direction of the
enemy) in all cases and takes advantage of cover, the men lying down
if necessary.

204. The company in skirmish line _advances_, _halts_, moves _by the
flank_, or _to the rear_, _obliques_, resumes _the direct march_,
passes from _quick_ to _double time_ and