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All orders originate with the officer of highest rank and terminate with action of the men in the ranks.
Even the officer in charge, be it a captain ( for small display ) or a general, is restrained by monitoring.
This is done for simplicity of commands and to bring the hidden redundancy up to where misunderstanding has almost zero possibility.
and are combinable into sequences which permit any marching maneuver that could be desired on a parade ground.
This monitoring is necessary because, on a parade ground, everyone can hear too much, and without monitoring a confused social event would develop.
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