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US Military never really trained for these types of dog and pony shows (discuss.online)
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[–] 70 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I was only in marching band. 25 years later, I promise I could still do it with zero practice. This was on purpose.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    If you were in marching band, there's a good possibility that you had more thorough training in marching than what's given in basic training, especially if you went to competitions. Marching makes up like half the activity of marching band (it's in the name). Marching is only one of a plethora of things that are taught during the few months of basic training, and once you're out of basic, you may never have to march again.

    I also think your expectations on how rhythmically-inclined the average person (or soldier) is might be on the high side based on your experience in an activity with a bunch of highly rhythmically-inclined people.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    I was in army cadets for like 2 years about 17 years ago and could still do this with 0 effort and I have a very poor sense of rhythm.

    Trust me, anyone that's spent more than like an hour learning to march could still do it with ease decades later.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This isn't true at all. Marching is really easy, especially when there's music to March to. I did a bit of drill in basic, and we would get a bit of practice before something a lot smaller than this, and we would be ace in 20 minutes of practice. They are doing this on purpose.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    They were "marching" to an instrumental of Fortunate Son. No way that's marched at that cadence without being janky as fuck at best.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Marching makes up like half the activity of marching band

    Marching makes up about 25% of daily life for a solider. We had PT formations, morning formation, weekend safety briefing formations, formations for training sessions, etc etc. If you have an element of troops, of any size, and they need to move from Point A to Point B, you're marching there.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    100% and I can't imagine the effect of basic training and what you learned there being forgotten until long afterwards.

    In the British army, even regular non-guardsman, infantry will usually parade into towns. They love a bit on pomp and ceremony. For example, even now regiments like the black watch regiment would be bagpipes bearing, marching in perfect unison into some place and then roll off to war.

    They didn't want to be there and their imo their COs didn't want to kick off at them in front of the cameras.

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