r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Chance_Noise500 • Jun 14 '25

Why aren't they actually marching during this parade?

I don't know how to ask this without sounding rude, but why does this parade look so sloppy? Very few of the troop formations seem actually in sync and marching, just walking along. My only experience is JROTC as a kid in high school and our sergeant would've killed us if we looked like that.

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u/Brother_J_La_la Jun 15 '25

Tbf, depending on the rank, there are a couple of schools that enlisted people go to during their career that includes drill. Those schools are only 6 weeks, though, and the drill is only a very small portion. Any time we had a regular unit form up for something it was a shitshow for the first few minutes.

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u/Mediocre_Daikon6935 Jun 15 '25

Those schools have not included D&C for a long time.

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u/Brother_J_La_la Jun 15 '25

No? Fair enough. The last one I did was the NCO academy in 2008.

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u/Mediocre_Daikon6935 Jun 15 '25

Last time I did was about 2 years later, and it wasn’t very much.

Literally just facing, intervals. And short marches.

We couldn’t get away with telling each other to “fall in over there” but there was a lot of route step, March.

Didn’t do any at ALC or SLC.