Walking on the grass - big deal! or what's the big deal?

I have always found it to be ridiculous. Does the Navy not have their ships in the water? Does the Air Force not flights planes in the air? Why then,should the army not walk on the grass?

Methinks that once upon a time, some sergeant major was anal retentive about his grass and it became a part of the culture.

I think it's a lack of discipline! If you can't simply take a few more steps to follow the sidewalk then you will surely cut out a few steps to do your job the easy way instead of the right way! Just my two cents.

In Norfolk VA during WWII there were signs that read "Sailors & Dogs Stay Off The Grass".

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Well I just prefer walking on grass. Just softer ground in general. The only time it shows a lack of discipline is if there are signs specifically stating "do not walk on grass". You can't call me indisciplined for doing something I thought was OK.

CSM Michael J. Uhlig If everyone walks on the grass,soon you have a path instead of grass.

Can't walk on sidewalks when someone is working on them or it is crowded.

It’s about paying attention to detail(rules)
Their thinking that if you’ll take short cuts across the grass you’ll take shortcuts when doing a project, not doing a complete job. Leaving out important points.

Stay off the grass!!

I chose lack of discipline. Every thing is done for a reason. I thought about choosing other and saying that it gives sgtmjr something to do, but i fear sgtmjr's wrath. lol. ps, when we are walking, my children also understand that all grass is owned by sgtmjr and if it isn't our yard, they don't belong on it.

I put 'other' as it can depend. Overall we have sidewalks along the main throughputs and unless it's just too packed to use them people travelling those areas should use them as necessary to help maintain appearance on the installation. In these cases it's something of a lack of discipline. There are a few corner spots where I work people cut the edges and it's become plain dirt with erosion eddies that could be hazardous and just looks bad. There's a 4-way sidewalk intersection not two feet away. That's just lazy.

But I will also say, if in a lower traffic area or even someplace with poorly maintained sidewalks, someone shouldn't get their head taken off for walking on the grass. Grass was around long before concrete, a lot of us have to walk/run on it anyway in the course of our jobs, and some find it more comfortable. If it's not in an area that it could encourage enough traffic to worry about it and there's no other reason it could be problematic I'd say let it go. Sidewalks should be used since there's a reason the money was spent to begin with, but if it was that big a deal they'd have contracted in some fences on the side along with the concrete.