It's like in Catch-22 when Lieutenant Scheisskopf thinks that it's in vogue to march with your arms barely moving, and no one knows any better.
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I was only in marching band. 25 years later, I promise I could still do it with zero practice. This was on purpose.
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.
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.
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.
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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I thought it was in unison but it certainly didn't have the giant goose stepping.
Or they did it as protest instead of not caring. Some might have cared a lot.
Given that Fortunate Son was playing as one of the songs...
Fucking of course it was.
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Glad he owned up to the mistake.
You mean they spend zero time on showmanship training and thus twirling rifles serves a practical and essential combat purpose?
If they dislike Trump so much, they had like, you know, all their tanks there and stuff, they should have just removed him from office.
Those tanks were museum pieces.
They were mostly like WW2 tanks from what I saw. I'm sure their weapons systems were dismantled or decommissioned
My volunteer fire department was able to march in sync in parades despite having enjoyed a few adult beverages beforehand. What the Army did had to be deliberate.