_The Director_: “When the battalion commander has finished giving his
orders the Company Commanders will go back to their respective companies
and the Major will go to his command post. By this time the company
reconnaissance parties should be back at their companies and ready to
guide the various elements up to the lines where they are to make the
reliefs.
“The Company Commander will assemble his officers and non-commissioned
officers and go over the whole situation with them and issue the orders
for the company. This order will conform to the five paragraph system;
will contain the essential elements of the Major’s order and detailed
instructions for each element of the company.
“The Company Commander will then conduct his company to the front in
such formation as to take advantage of the natural cover afforded and so
as to be as invulnerable as possible to the enemy’s fire.
“The details of the actual relief will depend upon the cover available
and what the enemy is doing to interfere with it.”
_Terrain Exercise No. 3._
Defensive Position