• zieg989@awful.systems
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    1 year ago

    I am surprised at how many people do not get it. In military you cannot not comply with the orders, especially whan there is clearly nothing criminal with it. The guys doing sloppy marching is pretty much the only agency they have and the only way to protest and boycot that ridiculous parade.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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    1 year ago

    They can dEfEnD oUr NaTiOn against brown peasants, but can’t march in step because they apparent forget how to do so after basic training? Shit, it’s been over 20 years since my military service and I’m 100% sure I could still manage to march in step

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      I just think it’s odd that they’re not wearing class A’s or even B’s

      When I was in 20+ years ago they didn’t even want us stopping for gas off-post in our BDU’s on the way home from work

      Wearing white parade gloves in that uniform also just looks weird

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          1 year ago

          ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

          Last time they did a parade was back in '91 after the first Gulf War, they wore a combat uniform then as well but also wearing their LBE

          But that was just after the ending of actual major combat operation, so it wasn’t entirely out of place to wear the desert uniforms that were worn for that particular theater of operation

          I’m not sure why they chose combat uniforms for Trump’s parade, maybe Trump requested them or it was a bargaining olive branch to the troops from the brass to try to keep participation high since dress uniforms are much less comfortable to wear in parades and require more effort on the part of the soldiers to prep

          I know we always did our best to avoid those kinds of events that required them

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          My assumption was to try and make the troops look more menacing as a message to places like LA, really hoping for an NK dear leader style ass kissing but just got to hear the squeaking of a Sherman instead.

  • Kazel@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    probably one of the first things every soldier world wide learns is marching. Malicious compliance it is.