Your company has four platoons with four squads each. Your company commander just ordered 'Company mass left, march.' When the formation is complete, how many squad leaders will be in line with each other?

• 1

• 2

• 4

• 16

T or F: Company drill provides the procedures for executing squad drill in conjunction with other squads in the same formation.

• True

• False

When changing the direction of march in mass formation they continue marching in a(n) __________ until they are parallel to the new direction of march.

• arc

• line

• circle

• mark time

• base

When Cadets march in place, the drill command is __________.

• guide

• mark time

• double time

• mass information

When in a line or a __________, the right platoon serves as the base.

• circle

• post

• mark time

• arc

• mass formation

In formations where the company is formed by the company commander, which of the following commands is not used?

• Attention

• Post

• Receive the Report

• Report

If a platoon sergeant is to fill the __________ of a platoon leader, he takes a position six steps in front of and centered on the platoon.

• role

• post

• base

• position

• double time

When you march in the cadence of 180 steps or counts per minute with a 30-inch step you do __________.

• slow march

• mass formation

• mark time

• double time

• guide time

You are marching in the lead platoon in a company column with platoons in column formation. The commander orders "close on leading platoon." What should you expect to hear next?

• Forward, march

• Half step, march

• Mark time, march

• Stand fast

You are in 3rd Platoon. You are standing directly behind your squad leader, who is five steps in back of the last Cadet in 2nd Platoon. Your first sergeant is positioned to the rear of the formation. What type of formation are you in?

• Company in column with platoons in column

• Company in column with platoons in line

• Company mass formation

• Platoon column formation