They are numbered
consecutively from right to left in each support.
A picket is a group consisting of two or more squads, ordinarily not
exceeding half a company, posted in the line of outguards to cover a
given sector. It furnishes patrols and one or more sentinels, double
sentinels, sentry squads, or cossack posts for observation.
Pickets are placed at the more important points in the line of
outguards, such as road forks. The strength of each depends upon the
number of small groups required to observe properly its sector.
A sentry squad is a squad posted in observation at an indicated point.
It posts a double sentinel in observation, the remaining men resting
near by and furnishing the reliefs of sentinels. In some cases it may be
required to furnish a patrol.
A cossack post consists of four men. It is an observation group similar
to a sentry squad, but employs a single sentinel.
At night it will sometimes be advisable to place some of the outguards
or their sentinels in a position different from that which they occupy
in the day time.
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