Your left, your left, your left righto left righto left right your left, keep in step, keep in step, step, step, step…

Runs through my head when walking alone, 15 years later.

So, the SCOTUS ruled the feds control who is on the ballots in each state, right?

There is no such thing as a federal ballot.

Because there’s a fair chance they did it purposefully.

So, Donald wasn’t allowed to appear on the Colorado ballot, being an insurrectionist?

Except, every soldier is quite capable of doing it, and does it routinely.

Marching can be done to no music.

Side ranks keep sideeye on the element leader to the side, everyone else keeps side eye to the person on their right.

There are also the marshall with the whips. If all else fails, you keep cadence to that.

In a silent march, you keep in step with the “Clomp clomp clomp”, which also, is quite easy to do, and is done often.

Not anymore. The SCOTUS ruled already that they must have their ballots approved by the Feds, and feds can overrule their ballots.

I guess no, they cant learn to goose step, that quickly, because US troops dont goose step when marching.

Anyone who has served longer than 3 years has done a pass and review.

Anyone who has been to a perm duty station has had a class A inspection.

Anyone who has ever served has marched daily, in formation, from point A to point B.

Double time is a marching speed, aka running, and you have to run in step.

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.

D&C is used daily by the US Army, to move personnel from point A to point B. During running. During inspections. During pass and reviews.

15 years out, and “9 to the front and 6 to the rear” is still drilled into my head. Even my “about face” is still solid, while needing some practice.

I am hardly blindly patriotic, and I critique the US when is should be (Which is often).

Yes, this was a case of malicious compliance.

If you want to see evidence, here’s some normal soldiers (Not ceremonial guards) marching:

https://youtu.be/aeFltEjzR2Y?t=1212

They probably did.

For better or worse, the people in uniform are good people, who believe they are doing something honorable, right or wrong that may be. GIs have a very strict honor code amongst themselves. Loyalty, Duty, Honor, Integrity, Selfless Service. Respect. Personal Courage.

Are there sometimes faults? Of course. We are humans, after all, and no human is faultless. And there are bad people, too.

Yes, this was quite obviously done in protest. Its a silent protest. “Malicious Compliance”.

Soldiers don’t take pride in being used as political pawns.

Here is another event they hate doing, yet they seem to know how to march:

https://youtu.be/aeFltEjzR2Y?t=1212

Parade March is a thing we don’t bother to drill into units (except specifically tasked “Parade Units” that exist to do little circus acts for the high command’s amusement).

That is not accurate.

https://youtu.be/aeFltEjzR2Y?t=1212

Soldiers utilize D&C every day, by and large. Even when running. Its how soldiers are moved, as a group, from point A to point B.

Um…

https://youtu.be/aeFltEjzR2Y?t=1212

You can. And they do.

https://youtu.be/aeFltEjzR2Y?t=1212

This is just not accurate.

Here’s an example proving it incorrect:

https://youtu.be/aeFltEjzR2Y?t=1212

That’s just a unit. Not a ceremonial one.