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US Military never really trained for these types of dog and pony shows (discuss.online)
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[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day 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.

[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day 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.

[–] Robotsandstuff@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day 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.

[–] Robotsandstuff@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Also fortunate son while marching past amazing Trump they must have known

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Amazing music choice. Very fitting. I wonder who came up with that.

[–] Robotsandstuff@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

That's fair but they look shit and they should know how to fuxking March it's not the changing of the guard it's walking in time.