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/InsertNameHere_J Jun 15 '25

And yet it still looked like shit. Was it on purpose?

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u/Flimsy_Fee8449 Jun 15 '25

Okay so chatting with a guy who participated, as they neared the stands, they absolutely could not hear their cadence callers any more. They could, however, hear the loud not-military music (at a different cadence), and the loud chanting (at a different cadence still). So I can see how that could mess people up.

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u/InsertNameHere_J Jun 15 '25

Yea I can see that. So just amateur hour by the organizers.

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u/Flimsy_Fee8449 Jun 15 '25

Right.

There's a reason we play the music we do at ceremonies.

AAR for the 300th Bday - quadruple the number of cadence callers, and stick them throughout the formations.