Post AvA5IDSROnGCBSZAu0 by eriner@noauthority.social
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 (DIR) Post #Av9Y65oMhmjYVTQtCS by oldladyplays@wargamers.social
       2025-06-15T11:26:09Z
       
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       Just saw video of Trumpy's Big Birthday Blowout. I was completely stunned to see the soldiers marching. Because they weren't marching. They were out for a stroll. No one was walking in step, half of them didn't even do a basic eyes left move when they passed the review stand. That's one of the most simple drill evolutions there is, you literally just *turn your head* and keep marching.I know, I'm not US military, but drill is drill. It's been the way it is for about 300 years, since the evolution of firearms as a major weapon of war, for old reasons that don't really matter, having to do with the accuracy of those early firearms. It's retained for its ability to build cohesion, discipline, and quick instinctive response to orders.And drill has a look to it. This was not that. For me, that was a signal: "We don't want to be here either. We're not with him. We're here because we're good troops, and we do what we're ordered when it's a legal order. But he can't make us respect him." Just to interpret what you can see for yourselves on the video. A good half of those troops are *not* on Trump's side.Any vets out there want to chime in?
       
 (DIR) Post #Av9YJGQWY46tC7Ysy0 by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-06-15T11:29:18Z
       
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       @oldladyplays To do a parade you need a director with skills that have as much to do with dance and musical theatre as with the military. It's a SHOW and it requires practice and planning that just probably didn't happen. US military might has not been about such displays for a very long time. Really our government wants us to forget about the big expensive murderous army and navy we have. Trump doesn't get this? And the kind of talent he needed to pull this off wasn't there.
       
 (DIR) Post #Av9Yj7Jt1yH8Tjmifo by oldladyplays@wargamers.social
       2025-06-15T11:33:57Z
       
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       @futurebird Oh, you're absolutely right. This is just about..knowledge of the methods of training and the automatic nature of drill movements once you learn them. You don't just discard them because you forgot.
       
 (DIR) Post #Av9fYnibki2ITBNN7Q by ReverendMoose@mas.to
       2025-06-15T12:50:30Z
       
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       @futurebird @oldladyplays this is true, but also there's an art on stage of dancing poorly if you know how to dance well, and this felt more like that.
       
 (DIR) Post #Av9vqznpA32yQXVuka by twipped@twipped.social
       2025-06-15T15:53:02Z
       
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       @futurebird thats what you get when you evict all the queer people.@oldladyplays
       
 (DIR) Post #AvA5IDSROnGCBSZAu0 by eriner@noauthority.social
       2025-06-15T17:38:57Z
       
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       @oldladyplays you pretend to know about marching and military drills because you are, and will forever be, a man.
       
 (DIR) Post #AvACHLivscd3D4oWsS by JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
       2025-06-15T16:51:44Z
       
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       Oh they love playing protest songs - Born in the USA, Rage against the Machine, etc.@suzannealdrich @unicorndeburgh @ReverendMoose @futurebird @oldladyplays
       
 (DIR) Post #AvAGunTv0i8iPSrBmy by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
       2025-06-15T19:49:05Z
       
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       @futurebird @oldladyplays I've seen the US Naval Academy cadets doing drill work out of the Queen Anne Manual of Arms.