Shout out to DPRK for knowing how to have a fucking military parade. They made it look so easy the whole world forgot how to do it
I don’t think I’ve seen dprk ones but the Chinese ones are legitimately awesome to watch
they cant march at all lmao
Damn lol
Yup. Drill and Ceremony isn’t really practiced once you get to your unit. It’s widely viewed as a silly waste of time. For change of command ceremonies we would get like two or three days of practice, and most of that was standing around in the heat praying someone locks their knees and passes out. Judging from r/army posts, a lot of guys had just the three days of practice. Add in how no one wants to be at a dog and pony show, and you get very sloppy marching. Sucks2suck tbh, they deserve worse.
Why, what happens when someone locks their knees and passes out?
It’s entertainment. It never stops being funny. It’s slapstick comedy that briefly breaks the monotony of hours of standing at attention or parade rest while the colonels and generals practice fellating themselves. Sometimes they fall face first. Sometimes they fall on the person in front or behind them and we get to see two people knocked on their ass. Sometimes they crumple straight to the ground. And after they pass out, we get to see medics scramble to drag their ass to the aid station. We struggle to hold laughter in. Then the fun is over and we’re back to fantasizing about the stage collapsing during the speeches.
I always liked that picture of someone in the British Army collapsing, and everyone else just stands there.
They’re going to lose their minds saying that marching is gay DEI so of course they can’t do it
You know if we march in sync that’s ga— I mean, woke.
What if we marched together. Just kidding, unless.
choreography is something Theater Folk do
You mean synchronized gaying?
should fire all of them for this kind of pathetic displaythey march like they don’t want to be there
80 degrees with a dew point of 75
Maximum swamp ass conditions.
They’re drinking their air.
Damn, I thought Trump was supposed to have drained that thing.
the one time a wet bulb environment would be funny
The beta slouch walk vs the alpha juche goose step
Worse than the fucking boy scouts lmao
Compare and contrast (unironically love the seemingly value-neutral Hell March industrial complex on youtube that makes these montages of literally any army parade)
I don’t actually think that the PLA being parade trained is a point in their favor tbh. It’s silly no matter who does it.
The point is if you can’t maintain order and discipline marching down a fucking street in front of the president as a ceremonial projection of power how the fuck are you going to maintain order and discipline when you’re on a forced march in enemy territory with interrupted supplies
Like if the soldiers look like shit because “they don’t want to be there” imagine how they’re gonna look when they’re sent out on patrol from an FOB and every third run results in an IED casualty. You think they’re going to want to be there?
It frankly doesn’t fucking matter where they want to be what matters is where they’re ordered to be. This lack of discipline is an indictment of the soldiers but most of all the officers
Total disaster, no wonder these fucking bums got fucked up by goat herders despite being armed with the pinnacle of military technology.
Disaster
Timing and precision seem important skills, imo.
Do you look at the pop and lock choreography of the Arlington cemetery ritual or the parades of the life guards of small European monarchies and think “Yup, those are transferable skill to the battlefield”?
Yeah but those are like two dudes.
There’s something to be said about being able to do something like that en masse - it shows a healthy training and organizational structure with discipline and morale, even if the sync-marching isn’t necessarily an important skill.
the parades of the life guards of small European monarchies and think “Yup, those are transferable skill to the battlefield”?
Look at how rarely European monarchs get assassinated these days though, it must be doing something
I look at replies that don’t care until they do.
What
It’s not silly it’s literally the coolest thing ever
Military parades can be cool and good IMO. The organization is very satisfying
Your opinion is not the same as mine and is therefore ontologically wrong.
spoiler
I’m just being silly. I don’t actually care enough about this subject to make a deal about it.
Grrr fuk u
no
Yes?
Hell March
Frank Klepacki one of the GOATs. RTS doesn’t feel the same without the weird, industrofunk metal blasting.
I fuckin love him for going back and not just remastering but fully re-recording his classic 90s tracks. It was such a wonderful surprise when I saw they were remastering the games.
Oh for sure. Pretty sure he just likes doing it since I believe he did some original music for the Twisted Insurrection and Mental Omega mods for RA2. I still blast all the old C&C OSTs when I’m playing any RTS to this day.
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I watched a different parade today.
why are they doing the America 250 years thing a year early? its 1776 not 1775. I legitimately don’t understand.
They’re just skipping years now, like how Microsoft skipped windows 9
It’s the Army’s 250 b-day. Officially - it’s a parade for the Army. Officially.
It’s a Special Military Operation
I’d say it’s less of a parade, and more of a collective walking event.
I just watched a minute or two here and a minute or two there and I’m no marching expert but that was some very sloppy shit. Some of it was surely a lack of practice. But I think some of it was passive aggressive too. Trump hijacked their day in away soldiers who aren’t chuds were probably angry about.
Shit was (is?) boring as hell, it’s legitimately more entertaining to watch the washing machine go swish.
I don’t imagine the birthday boy is too happy about his special day getting overshadowed by Tel-Aviv eating shit, those dems in Minnesota getting clapped, and the lib protests.
Or the fact that his toy soldiers can’t march. Hopefully we get another “losers and suckers” quote out of this.
I don’t imagine the birthday boy is too happy about his special day getting overshadowed by Tel-Aviv eating shit,
This could end up being the biggest factor in whether or not Trump decides to join the war or not.
“you ruined my birthday party so I’m not coming to yours”
It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to
much like every government-organized parade i’ve ever seen, this was attended entirely by the people who were in its family and like 5 local weirdos
Look at that crowd! It’s like they are there to see a reformed Lynyrd Skynyrd cover band made up of 70 year-olds.
Definitely seen bigger crowds at the fairgrounds watching some washed up boomer
Damn that image looks like shit lmao
The entire thing is so weird to me - even for Trump. The two tanks in front of the stage are a chef’s kiss. They don’t look Strong and Powerful. They look like movie props made out of wood and plastic.
Ngl it gives me very large “county fair” vibes
BREAKING
I finally saw a shot of a “crowd” - https://hexbear.net/comment/6242195
I got ‘car dealership forecourt’, but that’s probably what he was going for.
One of my favorite movies facts about “Lord of War” was that it was cheaper to buy Libyan tanks than build prob ones.
On Reddit - somebody said the same thing about the AKs.
Circa 2002ish, you could find AK-47s for less than $5 because there were so many being plundered and sold during Balkanization.
I expected over the top red, white, and blue shit, and this is the best they could do?
Trump’s gonna fire a lot lotta people. And this time - they actually deserve it.
Paper tigers
Paint Too Matte
lmao the soldiers can’t march for shit, literal duck walking and there’s hardly any crowds what a joke
Also who decided to paint the tanks a dead green color, it looks like fake shit
That marching has got to be the most pathetic shit I’ve ever seen in my life
I went and watched the Moscow parade they had not too long ago for comparison and USians cannot march to save their lives. It is genuinely pathetic.
Honestly the only people in the U.S. who can march are in marching bands. And they are pretty damn good and competitive about it in some areas. They genuinely would have been better off getting some Midwestern high schoolers and college students rifles and have them do the parade.
I’m not sure if it’s the same feed you were watching, but my quick look at this feed didn’t show many people in DC at all.
By pure chance I started watching just a few minutes before Trump himself came to the stage. The footage was so controlled - it felt like I was watching a cheapie made-for-tv movie or something and for some reason they had to scrap the CGI crowd stuff they were going to use as quickie filler. There was no no crowd footage at all. The Hail to the Chief played, the president plus his wife came out, and they sat down. And that was it. On top of that - were the two tanks in front of the stage. Z-level set design.
LOW ENERGY. SAD!
All the shots were like the thumb. Little or no panning.
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Edit
Trump must be pissed. Is anybody there?
Fox is doing camera tricks. There are rapid cuts. And the next cut starts with a zoom in so you see people on the street but only for a sec. I’m never seen cut after zoom in after cut after zoom in before.
Don’t US chuds still love this guy? Why aren’t there crowds?
D.C. is like 99% lib. Maryland and northern VA also very lib. nobody else wants to drive into the Beltway from the rural areas 60-70 miles away
I’m genuinely surprised they didn’t hold it somewhere in friendly territory. Surely there are better parade grounds.
Gassy Donald Trump of failing Trump Administration and owner of bad food restaurants has a problem-his birthday party is no longer “hot”
Honestly they probably blocked off the entire area aside from a very small section for the public who had to go through security.
I don’t know how you could safely do a political parade in the US that was totally open to the public.
