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Focus on the fundamentals.
Back to the Basics with Pride and Discipline
Posted from ausa.org
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"To better emphasize drill and ceremony while optimizing training time, drill sergeants are chartered to conduct it with every movement between training events, to and from the dining facility, barracks, etc."
Why did they ever stop this? We marched everywhere. If a training site was too far to march, then we marched to the cattle car.
Why did they ever stop this? We marched everywhere. If a training site was too far to march, then we marched to the cattle car.
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MAJ Alvin B.
Good question. Time change, expectations change, requirements change. Way back in the day (BCT at Ft. Jackson, SC in 1975), we marched in the rain, and the heat, even when we should not have been marching (one of our Drill Sergeants was relived after marching us for hours in black flag heat conditions). We survived. The point is, with rare exceptions when "cattle cars" were used to move us; even then, as you note, we marched in formation to the cattle cars. During advanced training (MOS AIT at Ft. Devens, MA), marching everywhere was the only option; no cattle cars, or buses; be it 100F or -25F (we experienced both); we marched in formation.
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"Drill and ceremony is a foundational aspect to basic discipline and unit cohesion". Boom!!! To me, it starts here.
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MAJ Alvin B., why are we going back to basics at basic training? Why did the Army dispense with what worked for decades and only now feels compelled to return to the old ways? It's a rhetorical question, MAJ Alvin B..
The U.S. Army frequently changes for the sake of change. It happened throughout my career. Brings to mind the phrase, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
The U.S. Army frequently changes for the sake of change. It happened throughout my career. Brings to mind the phrase, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
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