_The Director_: “That is very good. I think you have covered all the
points that should be included in the patrol commander’s order. I wish
each member of the class would compare this order with the kind that is
usually mumbled out to members of a patrol by the average patrol leader
at maneuvers. It is a fact that most patrols go out, either with orders
that they do not understand or with no orders at all. Do not allow this
to be done under any circumstances. You can well afford to hold up the
departure of the patrol until the patrol commander can dope out his
orders and give them properly. And you must insist on this being done.
If you do not do so it will never be done properly.
“Now I want each member of the class to write our Sergeant B’s orders to
his patrol. Try to get the order in the language that Lieutenant Wallace
used in his solution.”
When this is completed the papers are collected and redistributed as
indicated in previous exercises. The class is now ready to proceed with
the next situation.
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=Reconnoitering Patrol= =Card No. 2=
=Director’s Key=