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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 day ago (11 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (8 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (4 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

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