Posted on May 22, 2016
Is this West Point cadet checking her phone while marching in formation?
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What does it look like to you? It's clearly a marching formation and it looks like the cadet is checking her phone while marching. What do you think?
USMA
Drill and Ceremony
Discipline
Posted 9 y ago
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Are they officially marching? I see when guy staring at the ground another is looking to his left. I suppose route stepping to where they are going. I imagine checking your phone is not what you are supposed to be doing in any case. Unless she screwed up and it started ringing now she is trying to shut it off.
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SFC Joe Ping
They are in formation. route step or otherwise, you do not pull out a cell phone, light up a cigarette, anything you keep your mouth shut and go from point A to point B. AR 670-1
paragraph 3-6(d) Soldiers will not walk while engaged in activities that would interfere with the hand salute and greeting of the day or detract from a professional image. Examples include, but are not limited to, walking while eating, using electronic devices, or smoking cigarettes, cigars, or pipes. Soldiers are not authorized to wear wireless or non-wireless devices/earpieces while wearing Army uniforms. Hands-free devices while operating a personal, commercial, or military vehicle (to include a motorcycle or bicycle) are allowed if not otherwise prohibited by policy or law in accordance with AR 385–10.
paragraph 3-6(d) Soldiers will not walk while engaged in activities that would interfere with the hand salute and greeting of the day or detract from a professional image. Examples include, but are not limited to, walking while eating, using electronic devices, or smoking cigarettes, cigars, or pipes. Soldiers are not authorized to wear wireless or non-wireless devices/earpieces while wearing Army uniforms. Hands-free devices while operating a personal, commercial, or military vehicle (to include a motorcycle or bicycle) are allowed if not otherwise prohibited by policy or law in accordance with AR 385–10.
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I don't really care if she is marching or at route step......Should be looking forward and proud. Should not have a freaking cell phone during formation or any official uniformed event. I hope she gets counseled. One stupid mistake and your whole unit looks bad because of you. Not fair to the other cadets or the Army. Semper Fi!
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And this is why leadership is so screwed up these days. A total disregard and disrespect "I do what I want attitude".. So the next question is why no one else around her has not taken that thing and chucked it like a grenade.
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It seems that Firstie SGT is checking a cell phone or some other type of electronic device CPT Aaron Kletzing. I suppose it could be a camera or less likely a GPS. :-)
I wonder if they are marching to or from Michie Stadium. That seems to be what they are doing.
I wonder if they are marching to or from Michie Stadium. That seems to be what they are doing.
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Oh relax people. Once you get past all the Hooah and catch phrases, remember, they're just college kids... West Point, for all it's grandeur, Hogwarts like edifice and beautifully manicured lawns, is not Leonidas's Spartan Camp. These are college kids. We all know it's not rare to see CSM's walking and talking on phones, 1SG's in front of formations on phones, people with hands in pockets, so on, ad nauseum, ad infinitum.
Phones ring. Emergencies occur. Life happens. Even in college.
Phones ring. Emergencies occur. Life happens. Even in college.
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Yooooo dude I can't she definitely looks like it. is she a senior regardless she should know better. Where is someone to give her a quill. do they still call them that? Wish I knew how this ended who else
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Not trying to defend what she's doing -
Looks to me like this is the Senior group coming back from the Graduation parade, after they've left the Corps and after they've left the parade field.
Looks to me like this is the Senior group coming back from the Graduation parade, after they've left the Corps and after they've left the parade field.
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If this is "marching in formation" there is so much wrong here that the cell phone is just one thing of many. Not everyone is in step. People are looking all over the place. Posture is horrendous. The hats are all at various angles. Arm swing is nowhere near uniform.
I have to believe this is a route march.
I have to believe this is a route march.
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