Common Parade Commands
- Fall In. Have the aforementioned troops fall into formation at the position of Attention.
- Fall Out. Have the troops fall out. This is done with a right turn followed by either three steps or a Quick March in a straight line to the edge of the parade square, determined by context. US Army standard is to take one step back with the left foot, and from there to walk away from the formation.
- Dis -Miss. A fall-out where the soldiers have free time until their next designated work period (typically done at the end of a common day, although often is simply an erroneous substitution for Fall Out).
- /Parade, Atten-Tion (Shun) (U.S.: Atten - Tion (Shun)). Have the soldiers uniformly adopt the Attention position, the most constrictive position (with feet together), but the only position from which soldiers can actually be made to move. Actions such as a salute also return soldiers to the attention position. is the type of parade, for example: detail, squad, parade, battalion, etc. On the second only two syllables are said unless that is physically hard to say, for example on detachment, only detach is said but on company, the entire word is said.
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