One squad helps arrange the kitchen.

One squad pitches the officers’ tents.

One squad digs the sink.

One squad procures wood and water.

One squad is held available for details from regimental headquarters.

The officers and first sergeant supervise the work.

The sinks are located by the commanding officer.  The detail to dig them should wait until informed of the location.  An officer should inspect the sink as soon as the detail reports it as completed.

After the camp has been put in order the first sergeant makes the details from roster for kitchen police and noncommissioned officer in charge of quarters for the next day and for such guard as may be ordered for that day.

The details called for by regimental headquarters for pitching the headquarters camp for the quartermaster, etc., should be reported to the adjutant without delay.

The cooks pitch their tent at that end of the company street nearest the kitchen.  Space must be left for this tent if the cooks are not in ranks when the company pitches tents.  Unless lunch has been carried or cooked during the march, the cooks should get to work on a hot meal as soon as possible.  The kitchen police report at the kitchen as soon as their tent is pitched.  Wood and water will be required at once.

Officers should avoid keeping the men unnecessarily under arms or on their feet after a hard day’s march.

When the details of making camp have been completed, all men should at once care for their rifles and feet. (For details as to the care of the rifle see Chapter II Section 1, for the care of the feet see Chapter IV.)

SECTION 4.  CAMP SERVICE AND DUTIES.

In camp “Reveille” is preceded by “First call,” and a march played by the band or field music, and is followed immediately by “Assembly.”  If there is a reveille gun, it is fired at the first note of the march and is the signal for all to arise.  The roll is called at the last notes of assembly after reveille.  At this formation men should fall in in the proper uniform—­rifle and belt, service hat, olive-drab flannel shirt, service breeches, leggings, and shoes.  The regimental commander may prescribe that coats are to be worn and will prescribe the exact uniform for all drills, parades, and other formations, as well as for men going on pass.

Immediately after reveille roll call the sergeant next in rank to the first sergeant takes command of the company and deploys it for a general police of the camp within the limits assigned to the company.  Men pick up all scraps of paper and rubbish of all kinds, depositing it in the company incinerator or place designated for the purpose.  The police limits of each company are usually designated as extending from head to rear of camp within the space occupied by the company street, including the ground occupied by the tents of the company, no unassigned space being left between companies.