No, if you order a left or right wheel, then you stay aligned with people. If you order to march from column into line, then you just move with a slightly faster step, not caring for the other people around you, until you reach your destination, and then you address to the left or right, depending where the guide is. If you were to keep aligned with the people to your left and your right, you would never be able to reach the final position in one easy go. (But if I find my book, I will also look that up, just to be sure that I am correct)
Additionally, if you say "turne" (or however you spell it) then you run as fast as you can. At least as far as I know. I wanted to look it up sometime this week (Because I am really not sure about turne), if I ever manage to find my book... Other idea might be that you use turne when you are in battalion, but it does not make much sense to me.
Wheeling is the easiest thing in the world, if you know how to do it. Look outside, push inside, keep touch.
Alignment is also easy, but for some reason there are always people that think that they just have to touch the guy to the left or right and that this is all they need. It is not. If you align to the right or the left, you look left or right and move forward until you can see the belly of the rightmost/leftmost person. Additionally you also keep touch with the guys to your left and right.
We followed the guide to the left, but the fucking retard always went so far ahead that we had to get into superposition with the officers in front of us, which is sadly not possible for us, because we are not living in the world of quantum mechanics.
And then for some reason, our officer kept forgetting to give orders when we were marching in line. We just had to assume what we were supposed to do.
In the end we ended up just repeating all orders we could hear as loud as we could, because neither our sergeant nor our corporals did it. Apparently there was a sergeant standing somewhere behind Vince. He did nothing. This is not how it works.
To sum it up:
Guides are there to keep the distance between different pelotons, to walk straight and to keep the line together. Corporals and sergeants repeat commands when they are given, so that everyone can hear them. They also do not randomly stay around in the line.
When in battalion, officers give commands. The soldiers in the peloton should not have to listen to the chef de battalion, but only to the officer commanding the peloton.
When you get the order to move out, you move out with the ordinary step (unless commanded otherwise) and not with some arbitrary step you made up in your mind. Additionally you do not randomly change your step while marching. It makes no sense and serves no purpose.
If you get the order to do a wheel to the left, but the officer concludes with "forward march" you march forward. It is not the soldier's problem, that the officer made a mistake. If he makes a mistake, he should learn from it.
If for some reason, you end up in a different file (in my file) and you just decide to stay there for a shot, move forward. DO NOT FIRE YOUR MUSKET RIGHT AT MY EAR. Next time I see that guy, I will stab him in the face.
If the guide is the left, and he pushes slightly left, then you give in and push the person to your right to your left. You do not push back. Otherwise you will end up squashing anyone in the center.
