_The Director_: “In our solution to Situation No. 1, Captain Hall, in
giving the order of the platoon commander said: ‘Sergeant Roberts, with
the first squad, will form the point, etc.’ That was an eminently proper
order. It did not go into details. He assumes that Sergeant Roberts is
familiar with the methods of forming the point of an advance guard and
conducting its operations.
“It is a very simple matter for the platoon commander to pass the order
along to the sergeant in this manner. But unless the platoon commander
knows how the work should be done he has no means of checking up and
seeing to it that it is done properly.
“While it is not contemplated that any member of this class will ever be
called upon to conduct the operations of the point of an advance guard,
all should be familiar with what happens when he gives someone else an
order to do so.”