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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.
The key difference is you can actually march to that music. Fortunate son is slightly too fast for a proper pace which is why the front of the one group was wavy and people were out of step. Also if anyone was actually calling cadence, the people on the left side probably wouldn't have been able to hear it over the music.
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.
Yeah, you literally just keep the beat in your head. Anyone can do it.
True, but keeping time with the steps of those around you while music is playing at a completely different tempo is not something I would trust a non-musically trained soldier to do well.
Except, every soldier is quite capable of doing it, and does it routinely.
I don't know much about the military, but I am very familiar with the marching arts. Discerning between two different tempos and keeping your feet in time with only one of them is a lot harder than it sounds. Unless there is time allotted to learning that skill specifically, I doubt any group of soldiers are going to do it flawlessly.
They may not fall apart, but its not going to look pretty. And apparently, it didn't. If every soldier is capable of doing this, then why is there a whole post about how badly they did it?
My wife falls in step beside me without even realizing she's doing it. You learn this day one of basic up here. By the time you get out of BMQ it's instinct. And it doesn't eat up any training time, because your practice is just walking in time with your unit every time you go anywhere.