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<strong>Marine</strong> Corps History, Customs and Courtesies 101<br />

101.7 Discuss the general concepts for a company level formation.<br />

• A company consists of the company headquarters and two or more platoons.<br />

• For close order drill and ceremonies, company headquarters <strong>personnel</strong> may be<br />

attached to platoons without interfering with the permanent squad<br />

organization and that for marches, members of the company headquarters<br />

command group are formed as the company or as higher authority directs.<br />

• The company uses formations such as line, column, (of threes, etc.) mass,<br />

extended mass, and column of platoons in line.<br />

o Note: In all these formations, the platoons that comprise the company<br />

will either be in line (each squad forming one rank) or in column (each<br />

squad forming one file). The company may also form a column of two’s<br />

or files in a manner similar to that of a platoon. In this case, the platoons<br />

are arranged in the same manner as a company in column, except that each<br />

platoon is in a column of two’s or files.<br />

• When the company commander is absent, the senior officer present with the<br />

company takes post and drills the company for the company commander and<br />

that in the absence of the First Sergeant, the senior SNCO, normally a<br />

Gunnery Sergeant, takes post and performs the duties of the First Sergeant.<br />

101-5

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