I promise y’all: marching in step is quite easy. Nothing difficult about it. That bad marching was intentional. I guarantee it.
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It was noticeable !
jun 15, 2025, 2:47 pm • 3 0 • view
I wondered about that. Very sloppy. 😁
jun 15, 2025, 1:41 pm • 5 0 • view
I noticed and nodded to that!!!
jun 15, 2025, 6:21 am • 1 0 • view
Do you have any idea how difficult it is to train that many soldiers to mosey out of sync? 🤣
jun 15, 2025, 6:10 pm • 80 1 • view
"mosey" is the perfect description for what they were doing. if they had been walking by stores, I would have called it "window shopping".
jun 15, 2025, 11:12 pm • 33 0 • view
from Barry Gander's substack barrygander.substack.com/p/the-army-i...
jun 15, 2025, 11:43 pm • 53 10 • view
🤣
jun 16, 2025, 10:23 am • 1 0 • view
Exactly.
jun 15, 2025, 10:59 pm • 0 0 • view
I don’t know what I’ve been told Rump is foolish and really old. Sound off 1-2-3! 😗
jun 15, 2025, 1:17 pm • 4 0 • view
Trump wanted some goosesteppers
jun 15, 2025, 1:10 pm • 4 0 • view
This thread is A plus 🙌🏾
jun 15, 2025, 1:07 pm • 5 0 • view
ohhhhh I truly hope so 😈😈😈
jun 15, 2025, 4:40 pm • 4 0 • view
I thought they were just embarrassed to be there and not making the effort, but I love them doing it on purpose.
jun 15, 2025, 6:59 am • 41 1 • view
I keep thinking about the humiliation of being forced to perform for a draft dodger who displays such contempt for people who have put their lives on the line for the country. Seems only natural that they would find ways to fight back.
jun 15, 2025, 6:46 am • 182 11 • view
Yup. You're 100% correct. It comes naturally after a while. You're in step unconsciously. I led my platoon when I was in basic, I was the cadence caller. That was a subtle FU to Trump.
jun 15, 2025, 1:30 pm • 126 6 • view
I’ve seen high school marching bands look more professional than this.
jun 15, 2025, 2:13 pm • 3 0 • view
Exactly! They showed up & and knew the assignment! 👏👏👏
jun 15, 2025, 10:11 am • 49 0 • view
At best lazy. There was music, hence a beat to march to.
jun 15, 2025, 11:02 pm • 1 0 • view
I read that they were supposed to get a 3 day weekend off, which danger yam cancelled for his little 'perade'; so no doubt they were over the whole mess.
jun 15, 2025, 4:24 pm • 167 5 • view
Lol, Danger Yam
jun 15, 2025, 6:47 pm • 51 1 • view
💯 🤣
jun 16, 2025, 10:30 am • 1 0 • view
I thought so. They were pissed.
jun 15, 2025, 1:57 pm • 17 0 • view
I saw a video of the troops rehearsing and they looked brilliant. Totally in step and engaged. Absolutely different from how they turned out yesterday. Maybe deliberate pass-agg or exhaustion or both but lots of people have commented on the sloppiness of the parade.
jun 15, 2025, 9:04 am • 52 0 • view
it must be very strange for someone proud of their military service to be required to march to John Fogerty's song, Fortunate Son; a veteran, Fogerty wrote it to satirize draft dodging by the rich. Like a teen walking into a new school and hearing Pink Floyd's "Education" over the speakers.
jun 15, 2025, 12:15 pm • 29 4 • view
I am going to have to check out that song. Kudos to whoever chose it (either deliberately or inadvertently because they liked the title!)
jun 15, 2025, 5:45 pm • 1 0 • view
I was wondering the same.
jun 16, 2025, 12:57 pm • 0 0 • view
I had the same suspicion. There is NO way ALL of them were that bad lmao.
jun 16, 2025, 3:21 am • 50 0 • view
I’m thankful to the service members. So grateful. 🥹
jun 15, 2025, 2:17 pm • 12 1 • view
I noticed too. I've seen better marching from small town high school bands
jun 15, 2025, 10:58 am • 11 0 • view
I got that vibe too. They were all over the place.
jun 15, 2025, 2:00 pm • 21 0 • view
I was thinking the same thing.
jun 15, 2025, 11:13 pm • 7 1 • view
That’s a great sign for our democracy!! Not goose stepping to the Fascistic regime.
jun 16, 2025, 12:45 pm • 29 0 • view
Drill and cerimony is taught in basic. Its done all the time when your in uniform. They have a special way to count steps to keep on pace and a specific distance your feet should go apart.
jun 15, 2025, 6:08 am • 5 0 • view
I don’t know much about the military but do know folk are trained and trained to ensure they do right.
jun 15, 2025, 5:25 pm • 3 0 • view
I think Trump was hoping the troops would all be wearing their Class A uniforms. He wanted a show and instead got Beetle Bailey at the end of a 20 mile hike.
jun 15, 2025, 8:35 pm • 219 8 • view
My (veteran) husband doesn’t like me referring to those camo fatigues as “pajamas,” but honestly when they posted all these guys in NYC’s Grand Central Station post-9/11 that’s what they looked like. Camo to blend in with white-collar commuters in coat & tie? 🙄
jun 15, 2025, 9:14 pm • 49 3 • view
We did it in big parades back in Boy Scouts. Looked way snappier than whatever that was yesterday.
jun 15, 2025, 3:07 pm • 427 9 • view
I can still march off a perfect 5 yards in eight steps from my high school marching band days.
jun 15, 2025, 3:09 pm • 17 0 • view
Same. I saw someone say that it was the wrong kind of music for keeping in step. Umm, that's not a thing?
jun 15, 2025, 3:16 pm • 16 0 • view
100%! I was color guard in a drum corps. We were much more put together, despite day drinking.
jun 16, 2025, 10:55 am • 27 0 • view
Best response of this thread. 😄
jun 16, 2025, 1:43 pm • 10 0 • view
My granddaughter’s rotc does better
jun 15, 2025, 3:09 pm • 8 0 • view
Our Jr High band was more impressive
jun 15, 2025, 3:11 pm • 20 0 • view
Yes. I was in high school marching band and you had to be not just in step, but perfectly aligned horizontally, vertically and diagonally. And we did it while playing our instruments
jun 15, 2025, 3:13 pm • 42 0 • view
Ditto that!! We had to have our music memorized, and our director loved pin wheels! His motto was "No pain, No gain"
jun 15, 2025, 10:30 pm • 3 0 • view
Same here & as a Jr. High & High School marching band clarinet player at a US DOD school in Germany, we were constantly competing for first chair at every performance. I can proudly say I was first chair and I’d be damned if I was gonna lose my spot!
jun 15, 2025, 10:39 pm • 1 0 • view
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Yard!
jun 15, 2025, 6:29 pm • 3 0 • view
Amen, Mr. Fallows. Amen.
jun 15, 2025, 3:09 pm • 149 3 • view
It was a FU to DJT!
jun 15, 2025, 12:11 pm • 42 2 • view
All while the real king had uniformed cavalry band riding thru the streets playing ditties.
jun 15, 2025, 4:00 pm • 3 0 • view
If the ground is wet, you give a quick-time march for safety.
jun 15, 2025, 6:01 am • 2 0 • view
It’s the first thing I learned in Navy boot camp. Formation followed by the order dress right dress to ensure your line was straight. You also learned how to change your step if you were out of step. Intentional or not, it was bad optics for the Army.
jun 15, 2025, 2:58 pm • 12 0 • view
Right!?
jun 15, 2025, 12:49 pm • 4 0 • view
You learn that in boot camp the hard way. You don’t forget it unless you try
jun 15, 2025, 7:40 am • 56 0 • view
I was in marching band in high school. We had to march in step, doing complex formations on the field, while playing our instruments. It honestly wasn't that hard.
jun 16, 2025, 9:21 am • 29 0 • view
Yeah, you look at military dictator parades of yore and you have literally thousands of soldiers marching in perfect lock-step. None of these Army guys wanted to be at Trump's "PERADE".
jun 15, 2025, 9:36 am • 30 1 • view
They certainly would have been better at dancing around.
jun 15, 2025, 6:26 am • 5 0 • view
I watched three minutes of it and thought the same. That was either their first few days in basic, they were drunk or it was on purpose.
jun 15, 2025, 12:10 pm • 8 0 • view
Former military here. I would agree. I suspect that they pulled together a great number of truck drivers, office staff, cooks and other non-combatants to fill those uniforms.
jun 15, 2025, 5:40 pm • 16 1 • view
Yep They understood the assignment
jun 15, 2025, 10:05 am • 16 0 • view
Yep, I noticed that right away! Especially if you’re marching in front of a VIP, you’re going to have your best military bearing. I was on my Navy A school drill team and loved performing, trust me, this was 100% intentional.
jun 16, 2025, 3:59 am • 86 3 • view
Agree
jun 16, 2025, 4:09 am • 13 0 • view
On Saturday morning (European time), I watched the British trooping the colour, precision at its best. If you want to see marching in step, look at the sky coverage of trooping the colour, no tanks, just style, precision and immaculate turn out..
jun 15, 2025, 6:11 am • 24 1 • view
I hope it was the troops form of protest.
jun 15, 2025, 2:57 pm • 30 0 • view
Yep. Marching was the easiest thing to do during basic training.
jun 15, 2025, 2:46 pm • 67 1 • view
Had to be. They all looked embarrassed to be there.
jun 15, 2025, 2:56 pm • 12 0 • view
It was around 90 degrees here yesterday. Was it bad marching or just walking because of the heat?
jun 15, 2025, 2:05 pm • 0 0 • view
They’ve trained in worse conditions. Take that vets word for it.
jun 15, 2025, 2:18 pm • 17 0 • view
Yeah, but this isn’t training or anything else even remotely near it, it’s a dog and pony show. You can take this vet’s word for the fact that while marching is a fundamental part of military training and discipline, it's not an absolute requirement in all situations.
jun 15, 2025, 3:38 pm • 3 0 • view
Hundred percent agree and trying to keep step to Creedence, I'm not sure I could do that.
jun 15, 2025, 7:48 pm • 27 0 • view
Right, not the right music for marching in lock step. They had to use Rout Step - walking or whatever step was appropriate for the conditions.
jun 15, 2025, 8:21 pm • 13 0 • view
They hate him too.
jun 15, 2025, 8:46 am • 5 0 • view
The silence of the tracks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e001...
jun 16, 2025, 3:13 am • 48 4 • view
Someone's head is gonna roll for the squeaky tanks. I vote for Pete Hegseth's. He looked like a little boy who knew he was going to be taken out to the woodshed and punished! Either that or he was hungover 🤣
jun 16, 2025, 9:55 am • 14 1 • view
Makes me remember the marching cadence in bootcamp 40 years ago..."your left, your left, your left, right, left."
jun 15, 2025, 12:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Maybe easy for you, but I got kicked out of marching band 🥲
jun 15, 2025, 3:49 pm • 8 0 • view
I thought that, too. The military morale is reportedly really low right now.
jun 15, 2025, 9:40 am • 1 0 • view
It looked very desultory. I was wondering.
jun 15, 2025, 1:05 pm • 6 0 • view
More of a saunter
jun 15, 2025, 11:22 am • 6 0 • view
Any time I see something about marching I still hear my TI's voice, almost 40 years after I was in BMT. MARCH FROM THE WAIST DOWN 😸
jun 15, 2025, 9:27 pm • 19 1 • view
Thought the same. I’ve seen plenty as child of vet and parent of an active duty. That had FU written all over it.
jun 15, 2025, 4:09 pm • 7 0 • view
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jun 15, 2025, 2:45 pm • 153 7 • view
jun 15, 2025, 2:45 pm • 47 6 • view
Well played 👏👏👏👍
jun 15, 2025, 4:21 pm • 4 0 • view
I wanted to read on. What did the resident do with his boat? :D
jun 15, 2025, 3:40 pm • 9 0 • view
🤣 This just happened within the past year or two, right? Not passive aggressive at all! /s 🤣
jun 16, 2025, 10:41 am • 1 0 • view
sorry no pics but, bank complained about old cars in driveway and forced owner to put up fence, he did out of scrap lumber various lengths and widths and proceeded to paint it red and then covered it with anti bank graffiti, pretty ugly but in compliance
jun 15, 2025, 7:48 pm • 10 0 • view
I think ,IIRC, he put a fence up to cover the boat so it was technically concealed as requested. The top half of the boat could be seen, but the he painted the bottom half on the fence itself, so it still looked like the full boat was out in the open. No rules about fence painting. 🤭
jun 15, 2025, 7:11 pm • 6 0 • view
My husband was briefly in the Army more than thirty years ago. I guarantee that he could could still fall into step right now.
jun 15, 2025, 5:02 pm • 18 0 • view
Absolutely! They were not in-step, which spoke loud and clear. 👏👏💙
jun 15, 2025, 10:20 pm • 46 1 • view
I noticed. No one calling cadence
jun 15, 2025, 8:17 am • 7 0 • view
I believe you (always). But why?
jun 16, 2025, 1:16 am • 2 0 • view
Yep
jun 15, 2025, 6:07 am • 2 0 • view
They were dragging ass
jun 15, 2025, 9:19 am • 5 0 • view
Hmmm... so basically Trump's big beautiful "perade" was really just another No Kings protest in disguise?
jun 15, 2025, 6:30 pm • 288 19 • view
Yup those soldiers were aware of "No Kings" and they did their part to join the protest in a way with the bad marching and the choice of marching music..loved how well they pulled that off!
jun 15, 2025, 10:10 pm • 95 6 • view
Love it!
jun 16, 2025, 2:06 pm • 3 0 • view
The freshman did far better than that by noon on the first day of band camp.
jun 15, 2025, 5:49 am • 38 0 • view
jun 15, 2025, 6:15 am • 19 0 • view
I believe you. Thank you for telling it like it is.
jun 15, 2025, 8:48 pm • 4 0 • view
Marching well requires 'Give a shit' factor. These soldiers did NOT Give A Shit!
jun 15, 2025, 2:47 pm • 36 4 • view
I had the same thought. That did not appear to be marching “with pride”!
jun 15, 2025, 11:48 am • 8 0 • view
the 1,000s of marchers were on the beat at last week's Pride Parade in DC 🌈
jun 15, 2025, 12:02 pm • 3 0 • view
Yep!
jun 15, 2025, 11:27 am • 2 0 • view
I was able to do it in the high school drum & bugle corps, so you know it's gotta be easy. 🤷♀️🤷♀️
jun 15, 2025, 5:56 am • 9 0 • view
Absolutely!!!!
jun 15, 2025, 1:03 pm • 2 0 • view
That’s nice to know ☺️.
jun 16, 2025, 2:17 am • 0 0 • view
Boy I hope that is right
jun 15, 2025, 11:30 pm • 10 0 • view
Nice. Nice!
jun 15, 2025, 6:39 am • 1 0 • view
I want to know who thought playing Fortunate Son was a good idea…unless the Army chose it. Which would mean they were trolling dump…
jun 15, 2025, 2:41 pm • 347 9 • view
I’m sure some DOGE incel heard it in a Vietnam movie and thought it would be cool.
jun 15, 2025, 4:41 pm • 10 1 • view
They really played Fortunate Son?? lol.
jun 15, 2025, 8:04 pm • 46 0 • view
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jun 16, 2025, 2:20 am • 3 0 • view
If I was Neil Young, I would think about complaining for a second but the irony is too rich, so I might just enjoy the moment. Public service announcement: folks, please listen to the lyrics before using music for your parade.
jun 16, 2025, 3:22 pm • 3 0 • view
Definitely not marching in sync from top to bottom! 🤣
jun 16, 2025, 10:46 am • 1 0 • view
Yes. It was blaring.
jun 15, 2025, 11:22 pm • 25 0 • view
That song has been played many times at Trump rallies. I think Trump is doing it to mock the military. Rubbing the faces that he was privileged and did not have to serve..
jun 15, 2025, 3:59 pm • 5 0 • view
He really should listen to the words. That song doesn't say what he thinks it does. 😀
jun 15, 2025, 10:50 pm • 2 0 • view
I didn't watch the parade, but I find this very interesting.
jun 15, 2025, 3:38 pm • 39 0 • view
No way that's hilarious 🤣
jun 15, 2025, 10:33 pm • 2 0 • view
For some insane reason not the first time it’s been used at a right wing/ fascist event. That and Springsteen ‘s “Born in the USA” keep coming up. It’s mind boggling. Also I remember “Power and Glory” by Phil Ochs used at a Reagan rally. Crazy.
jun 15, 2025, 11:05 pm • 6 0 • view
He’s been playing that song for years because he only knows the chorus and wants to give the impression of being a regular guy, not a “fortunate son.” Which, of course, is a lie like everything he says.
jun 15, 2025, 4:08 pm • 17 1 • view
I think all he hears in that song is "the band plays 'Hail to the Chief'"
jun 15, 2025, 4:43 pm • 11 1 • view
I was wondering if maybe that was the case. We've all seen our military march before, they do know how.
jun 15, 2025, 1:42 pm • 12 0 • view
It really did look exaggerated and deliberately bad.
jun 15, 2025, 12:54 pm • 10 0 • view
'Yeah, I'm just having fun only technically following orders...'
jun 16, 2025, 4:27 am • 3 0 • view
I thought the same.
jun 15, 2025, 5:46 pm • 2 0 • view
Ahh I noticed that yesterday. I told my husband what's going, on these guys are it in sync!
jun 15, 2025, 5:54 pm • 4 0 • view
You noticed that also - have high school ROTC do better.
jun 15, 2025, 8:29 am • 2 0 • view
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jun 16, 2025, 1:44 am • 0 1 • view
Now felon47 is saying the parade was for Flag Day (and not his birthday, or the Army's 250th Anniversary). 🐂💩
jun 16, 2025, 9:59 am • 0 0 • view
Protests come in many ways. I've seen many a military parade (4th of July) and these soldiers today were intentionally showing their displeasure with the regime.
jun 15, 2025, 2:58 pm • 144 1 • view
I applaud it.
jun 15, 2025, 4:24 pm • 3 0 • view
I thought that too. Good. It shows that while they had to physically be there, they didn't have to agree with it. A good sign.
jun 16, 2025, 12:41 am • 123 0 • view
My Army vet husband and my friend who is currently in the Army both said that when they watched the videos.
jun 15, 2025, 8:37 am • 4 0 • view
Sergeant Spriggs woulda gone ballistic on us if we’d marched like that.
jun 16, 2025, 1:16 am • 6 0 • view
Absofreakinglutely. Every year I taught my gr9 drama classes to do it in 15 mins.🤣😆😂👍
jun 15, 2025, 10:57 am • 5 0 • view
Not just the outofsteppitude, but their general bearing and deportment. Sauntering in formation.
jun 15, 2025, 6:01 am • 184 8 • view
Excellent content: “outofsteppitude,” “sauntering in formation.” Kudos to you, sir (and the troops).
jun 15, 2025, 6:29 am • 79 3 • view
Haha I noticed too. What Trump fantasized was high precision high kick marching for dear leader aka North Korea. He did not get that!!!
jun 15, 2025, 6:57 am • 5 0 • view
Thank you! Never in the military, but when I saw the video, the first thing I thought was, "This isn't the normal way they march." Glad to know it might have been their way to protest. I feel sorry for the ones who didn't want to be there (hopefully the majority).
jun 15, 2025, 1:29 pm • 7 1 • view
I’m certain it was a clear representation of the lack of moral that has been spreading like a bad cold throughout a military that’s been stripped of its honor in leadership and example by this administration.
jun 15, 2025, 11:11 am • 29 3 • view
the marching had the intensity of hungry soldiers headed to chow.
jun 15, 2025, 1:40 pm • 3 0 • view
Thank you for confirming what I suspected! I know it's not the military but I did marching band & know good marching when I see it. Yesterday, soldiers were even slouching, bodies a little too relaxed, slightly off rhythm, almost sauntering a little. I figured it was their quiet resistance.
jun 15, 2025, 10:24 am • 188 8 • view
Out for a Saturday stroll with their unit.
jun 15, 2025, 12:12 pm • 31 0 • view
Agreed. It takes brand new recruits a couple of days MAXIMUM to master marching in time. #maliciouscompliance
jun 15, 2025, 7:11 am • 17 0 • view
I had to actually MARCH in the USAF. We were ordered to be IN STEP. Or were loudly chastised by our Sgt. That was the sloppiest shit I ever saw. Maybe PAID ACTORS ?
jun 15, 2025, 10:58 pm • 68 5 • view
Nope. Malicious Compliance. They had to be there and wanted no part of this.
jun 16, 2025, 12:57 am • 12 0 • view
I loved it Minimum effort Malicious compliance making them work when all the rest of the military has a holiday weekend, graduations, fathers day Making them sleep in parking garages and not paying them It was perfect
jun 16, 2025, 12:01 am • 100 7 • view
Reminds me of quiet quitting
jun 16, 2025, 4:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Why pay actors when you can order solders to do it for “free”
jun 16, 2025, 12:09 am • 4 0 • view
It’s the first thing you learn in boot camp and you do it every day in boot camp - every branch. 40 yrs later, I still know how to change step, maintain spacing, turn, etc. It can be more difficult to be out of step - stepping on heels of others. A choice was made here.
jun 15, 2025, 10:12 pm • 256 8 • view
Yup, you get off the bus and right on the painted footsteps then the receiving D.I. teaches how to march right then and there.
jun 16, 2025, 4:54 am • 3 0 • view
The military knows this "perade" wasn't for them and it wasn't even for their country, but a stupid stunt for an insufferable narcissist
jun 15, 2025, 1:28 pm • 637 87 • view
🤭
jun 15, 2025, 2:00 pm • 5 0 • view
This has to be true. That was not a parade. It was a lazy unimpressive performance. Nobody except Trump wanted to be there.
jun 15, 2025, 2:53 pm • 11 0 • view
As soon as I saw they were in BDUs, I knew. Good on 'em. Now if we can get them to stand down in communities, we'd be much better off.
jun 15, 2025, 1:59 pm • 177 5 • view
Will Hegseth be fired this week? Or will Trump wake up from his nap and decide the parade was the Biggest, Best Parade Anyone Has Ever Seen? Whoever planned this parade was brilliant.
jun 15, 2025, 11:58 am • 13 0 • view
I love it. Resistance in whatever small way they can...
jun 15, 2025, 7:44 am • 15 0 • view
It's really not. I learned in high school band and then took that experience into the Navy. youtu.be/zTHms1PoOLY
jun 15, 2025, 5:50 pm • 11 0 • view
I love this so much.
jun 15, 2025, 2:53 pm • 15 1 • view
As was the squeaking of the tanks. Don't FA with the military.
jun 15, 2025, 3:21 pm • 23 0 • view
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jun 15, 2025, 5:58 am • 21 0 • view
My father was a career Army infantry officer (and Army advisor to the 442nd during the 50s in Hawai’i) and he would be horrified by such sloppy marching. They don’t even stand up straight! What happened to military posture?
jun 15, 2025, 5:54 am • 17 0 • view
My father was career Army. I’ve been to many military parades. I’ve never seen less comportment in my life. It had to be deliberate.
jun 15, 2025, 7:04 am • 12 0 • view
Good armies don't march.
jun 15, 2025, 6:27 am • 0 0 • view
Resistance apparently.
jun 15, 2025, 5:58 am • 64 0 • view
I wondered.
jun 16, 2025, 12:05 am • 1 0 • view
Thanks for the explanation!! We marched in better step in marching band in grade school!
jun 15, 2025, 9:52 am • 6 0 • view
A silent protest
jun 15, 2025, 8:57 pm • 118 3 • view
It is... our soldiers can tight in procession never miss a step. It was intentional
jun 16, 2025, 2:37 am • 17 2 • view
Their version of a hand unicorn 🖕? 😂
jun 15, 2025, 7:32 am • 80 5 • view
Hand unicorn is cracking me up! Never heard the middle finger called that. 🤣😂
jun 15, 2025, 7:51 am • 54 4 • view
Me either. I love it.
jun 15, 2025, 10:08 am • 11 2 • view
Brilliant!
jun 15, 2025, 11:23 am • 3 0 • view
AND, every American soldier learns to do it before they finish basic training. 🙄
jun 15, 2025, 4:22 pm • 6 0 • view
1000%! the first day at West Point, we dropped my older brother off. they teach them to march and they later that day perform for the families. They have it down perfectly in one day. It is not hard.
jun 15, 2025, 2:13 pm • 22 0 • view
The Hostage March.
jun 15, 2025, 1:53 pm • 16 0 • view
Nothing like the SecDef placing lives at risk through SIGNAL and using racist, divisive commentary at Fort Bragg to “motivate” Soldiers”.
jun 15, 2025, 12:35 pm • 111 5 • view
He doesn't think of them as actual human beings with their own thoughts and opinions. Immature child that he is, he thinks they're just toys to play with.
jun 16, 2025, 4:51 am • 47 0 • view
I thank them for their silent protest
jun 15, 2025, 10:47 pm • 188 6 • view
And “Fortunate Son?” That had to be intentional. That was one of my favorite protest songs during the Vietnam War.
jun 15, 2025, 2:23 pm • 233 6 • view
I said the same thing~
jun 15, 2025, 2:43 pm • 6 0 • view
And for the fortunate son's birthday. The draft dodging rapist repeat conviction narcissistic socialpath........son.
jun 15, 2025, 6:24 pm • 49 1 • view
🎯
jun 15, 2025, 6:39 pm • 5 0 • view
Trump plays it at his rallies a lot though. I think he loves the song but has obviously never listened to the words.
jun 15, 2025, 2:57 pm • 75 2 • view
I think he absolutely knows what the words of this song means. He plays it to mock the military because he was privileged and did not have to serve..
jun 15, 2025, 4:00 pm • 0 0 • view
If he did, he probably never got past the first two lines.
jun 15, 2025, 3:40 pm • 21 2 • view
He only knows the chorus and plays it because he thinks it makes him look like a “regular guy.”
jun 15, 2025, 4:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Marching out of step on purpose = tiny act of resistance 🔥
jun 16, 2025, 12:30 pm • 63 2 • view
H5N1, & Covid still spreading.
jun 15, 2025, 7:23 am • 4 0 • view
I’m happy to see I wasn’t the only one who noticed that.
jun 15, 2025, 7:21 am • 16 0 • view
OMG I was thinking the same thing when I saw them. My thought was that some lazy marching.
jun 16, 2025, 11:03 am • 28 0 • view
Six to the front & three to the rear…
jun 15, 2025, 11:46 pm • 8 0 • view
Lol
jun 16, 2025, 4:13 am • 1 0 • view
NO MARINE would DRESS so SLOPPILY and "MARCH" in the Fashion that was done. I believe it was INTENTIONAL!
jun 15, 2025, 2:30 pm • 94 6 • view
I’ve been wondering about this all day. Thank you!
jun 15, 2025, 5:44 am • 64 0 • view
The Army phoned it in. Clearly.
jun 15, 2025, 11:01 pm • 73 3 • view
Seriously.
jun 16, 2025, 12:06 am • 2 0 • view
Agree 100%
jun 15, 2025, 5:17 pm • 5 0 • view
Looked like a hot mess and loved it.
jun 15, 2025, 2:34 pm • 3 0 • view
They could have used a little help from John Winger.
jun 15, 2025, 5:47 am • 16 0 • view
Lighten up, Francis.
jun 15, 2025, 9:20 am • 0 0 • view
RAZZLE-DAZZLE!!
jun 15, 2025, 6:04 am • 5 0 • view
That’s the fact, Jack!
jun 15, 2025, 5:48 am • 14 0 • view
THAT'S THE FACT, JACK!
jun 15, 2025, 10:06 pm • 3 0 • view
Even during the most relaxed of ceremonial parades we did, like ANZAC day marches through small towns, where there's nobody screaming at us "head up, chest out, bear down on those thumbs" etc, it's still very normal to all fall into step, it's seasoned, effortless, no-one wants to trip on a heel
jun 15, 2025, 8:21 am • 23 0 • view
It was remarkably sloppy. Yay, Marines!
jun 15, 2025, 2:50 pm • 19 0 • view
It was an intentional fuck you to trump. Pretty sure the Marines would have done the same.
jun 15, 2025, 5:33 pm • 11 0 • view
Perhaps they thought they had to cross a bridge?
jun 15, 2025, 3:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Even the military is protesting.
jun 15, 2025, 5:57 am • 61 3 • view
The armed forces didn't appreciate being used as political pawns in trumps birthday parade. I heard several interviews about it. So right, I would agree it was intentional.
jun 15, 2025, 7:56 am • 77 5 • view
Yup
jun 15, 2025, 6:12 am • 2 0 • view
Yep.
jun 16, 2025, 3:58 am • 0 0 • view
I believe they didn't have their heart in it. #MilitaryParade #SmallDickEnergy
jun 15, 2025, 6:00 pm • 51 2 • view
They were mumbling, "Anywhere but here!" They didn't want to pay tribute to a so-called president who mocks and loathes the military as "Suckers and losers." He doesn't deserve their talent or time.
jun 15, 2025, 9:04 pm • 38 1 • view
This is what Trump envisioned. All the other monarchs are gonna make fun of him at the next meeting.
jun 15, 2025, 6:35 pm • 25 5 • view
🤣 During trump 1.0, he also saw French President Macron's military parade and commented back then that he wanted one. I'm sure you know that he's seen all the real dictators' parades & just had to have one, too. Back then, he had the real Generals who shut that idea down. Now he's got Kegsbreath.
jun 16, 2025, 10:22 am • 2 0 • view
Okay, this makes me feel better.
jun 15, 2025, 6:31 pm • 17 0 • view
I agree.
jun 15, 2025, 1:42 pm • 1 0 • view
👍
jun 15, 2025, 8:54 am • 3 0 • view
Oh I hope so!!! For what I could tell it was awful and the music....ugh...
jun 15, 2025, 6:04 am • 5 0 • view
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJQS...
jun 15, 2025, 11:30 am • 86 23 • view
I love this woman!
jun 15, 2025, 5:19 pm • 6 0 • view
🤭🤣
jun 15, 2025, 11:37 am • 5 0 • view
Yeah, we pretty much had that nailed before we even left Reception Battalion.
jun 15, 2025, 7:04 pm • 9 1 • view
My son went to BCT when he joined the NG in 2009 (commissioned after graduating college in 2013). I remember him mentioning Reception Battalion. That's just a few days in the very first week, isn't it?
jun 16, 2025, 10:12 am • 0 0 • view
Yep, first 3ish days.
jun 16, 2025, 3:33 pm • 1 0 • view
I noticed that as well.
jun 15, 2025, 11:14 am • 1 0 • view
I don't know how it's on your side at pool, but marching in step was like 2nd thing to learn as rookie at boot camp here.
jun 16, 2025, 1:24 am • 38 1 • view
I was told today by someone who went through Basic Training here in the US that learning to march in step is done the first week during what's known as Reception Battalion. She mentioned they spent "3-ish days" on teaching recruits everything they needed to learn about staying in sync.
jun 17, 2025, 6:14 am • 1 0 • view
I thought the same thing. Like the soldiers couldn’t come up with enough courage to refuse to participate said “I’ll march like a middle school marching band.”
jun 15, 2025, 1:59 pm • 5 0 • view
It’s almost as if they were asked or forced to do something they did not want to do. Malicious compliance?
jun 15, 2025, 11:19 pm • 68 3 • view
The consequence for the guys in your meme could be hours marching correctly next Saturday out on the parade grounds back on base! 🤣 Real troops learn how to march in lockstep the first few days of BCT in Reception Battalion. It becomes muscle memory & you don't ever forget how to get back in sync!
jun 17, 2025, 8:04 am • 0 0 • view
My son's been in the Army for 11+ yrs & never brought up malicious compliance. I looked it up. It's "a form of protest, but done in *compliance* w/ the letter of a directive." In this case, it was only sloppy! There could be some consequence, but not as serious as if an illegal act was committed.
jun 17, 2025, 7:37 am • 0 0 • view
They didn’t even look like they were marching. They were walking to their own tune!
jun 15, 2025, 7:51 am • 8 0 • view
1000% intentional. The vast majority of those soldiers do not feel good about being forced to act as a symbol of facism. And I feel terrible for the vast majority of them.
jun 15, 2025, 10:34 pm • 267 17 • view
I helped a middle school band learn to march for a parade they had in a week. Even they could march in step.
jun 15, 2025, 11:21 am • 5 0 • view
You'd think that, but my drill leader was a member of the USN Dental Corps, and couldn't say "forward, march" on the beat to save his own life.
jun 15, 2025, 11:31 pm • 2 0 • view
I was just in a convo with someone about this (no military background) and told him that by the end of month two of boot camp, my platoon looked far sharper and in sync than what we all saw yesterday in DC. Morale must be incredibly low within this army ranks. They knew they were being used
jun 15, 2025, 2:34 pm • 204 9 • view
Yes. That’s where American marching skills peak.
jun 15, 2025, 4:06 pm • 2 0 • view
Indeed. And hello, neighbor 👋
jun 15, 2025, 4:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Spending several days sleeping on cots in a basement could have something to do with the lackluster mood, too.
jun 15, 2025, 3:11 pm • 93 2 • view
The only time to break cadence is while crossing a bridge.
jun 15, 2025, 10:54 pm • 21 0 • view
I said the same thing. They weren’t marching, they were walking. Big difference.
jun 15, 2025, 12:10 pm • 10 0 • view
We did a better job in high school 😂🫣
jun 15, 2025, 12:39 pm • 6 0 • view
Do you have a video to show what you are referring to?
jun 15, 2025, 3:24 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s what I thought! Also the face expressions. Not firm and resolute but…sort of DGAF ish?
jun 15, 2025, 5:44 am • 117 4 • view
I literally saw one guy picking his nose. Didn't watch much of it either. Just checked in periodically to see if they were being inundated with rain yet. A decidedly desultory display.
jun 15, 2025, 6:01 am • 43 2 • view
Total WGAF vibe when I saw some of the clips. And the goofy waves from the tanks-- definitely not the fearsome images I know he wanted to see. I actually felt kinda bad for the troops. What a waste of time and money and energy.
jun 15, 2025, 10:31 am • 60 2 • view
The troops couldn't give him the finger, but they did what they could to show their disrespect. I say hooray for the troops.
jun 15, 2025, 10:48 am • 75 3 • view
Didn't they all have to sleep on the floor of the post office or something? Imagine what they got to eat between the time they woke up and had to report to the event. I'm sure their day sucked.
jun 15, 2025, 1:37 pm • 12 0 • view
They were fed Army rations. 🙄
jun 15, 2025, 6:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Agreed completely! Not only can it be quite easy, but it can also be FUN, if you're doing it for something that is motivating and makes you happy. This was very telling, and it makes me feel HEARTENED. THANK you for pointing this out, @charlotteclymer.bsky.social!
jun 15, 2025, 12:38 pm • 33 0 • view
I didn't think of that. The first thing we learned in basic was how to march in step.
jun 15, 2025, 11:48 am • 11 0 • view
Intentional, you say? Let that lack of sync in.
jun 16, 2025, 12:04 am • 84 3 • view
jun 16, 2025, 1:59 am • 7 1 • view
It had to be. I know, for a fact that they are smart on the parade square. This is rebellion.
jun 15, 2025, 11:15 am • 29 0 • view
Well... crossing bridges they're not SUPPOSED to march in step, but they crossed that bridge already.
jun 16, 2025, 8:27 pm • 2 0 • view
I hope that's the case! I've been to the Tomb of the Unknown and I've seen the Marine Silent Drill Platoon...and they were spectacular.
jun 15, 2025, 6:59 am • 19 1 • view
Years ago I was an Air Force wife. Saw far too many parades for my taste. Even small ones were much better than this. NOT an accident.
jun 15, 2025, 7:31 am • 27 1 • view
100% super easy ... the only time you break step is when you're going over a bridge or something, and you don't want create a vibration.
jun 15, 2025, 10:28 pm • 30 1 • view
Also, I never saw anyone do the little half skip to get back into step.
jun 15, 2025, 10:46 pm • 36 0 • view
Knitting Cult Lady said as much too.
jun 15, 2025, 6:22 pm • 2 0 • view
Silent protest by military...love it
jun 15, 2025, 12:04 pm • 28 2 • view
Isn't that called walking?
jun 15, 2025, 7:20 pm • 13 0 • view
And that was some seriously bad marching.😳 No way it wasn’t intentional.
jun 15, 2025, 6:59 am • 43 1 • view
For anyone who has ever marched, it is actually harder to not keep on step-it becomes second nature where you naturally match whoever is next to you!!
jun 15, 2025, 10:37 pm • 122 3 • view
Right?! Like we did this in marching band and it was very deliberate to just meander like that.
jun 15, 2025, 6:06 am • 4 0 • view
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
jun 15, 2025, 8:25 am • 1 0 • view
I also thought that might be the case. I didn't see it until this morning on Bluesky.
jun 15, 2025, 11:47 pm • 12 0 • view
My son's boy scout troop marched better than that.
jun 16, 2025, 4:55 am • 7 1 • view
It was beautiful
jun 15, 2025, 1:52 pm • 5 0 • view
Ab-so-f-ing-lute-ly! Ask any high school band member.
jun 15, 2025, 6:18 am • 44 0 • view
youtu.be/FOzub_ghAbM?...
jun 15, 2025, 4:05 pm • 31 2 • view
Yes!!!
jun 15, 2025, 5:46 am • 1 0 • view
It had to have been. I was in Marching Band 30 years ago, and I, to this DAY, naturally fall into step within moments when around people marching.
jun 15, 2025, 12:43 pm • 37 0 • view
Same. I also always lead off with my left foot😂
jun 15, 2025, 5:09 pm • 5 0 • view
I hope you are right!!
jun 15, 2025, 2:17 pm • 4 0 • view
Army taught us all a great lesson in malicious compliance yesterday
jun 15, 2025, 2:43 pm • 57 3 • view
A friend of mine just now: He said "I want a parade on my birthday, and millions of people lining the streets!" and the monkey's paw curled
jun 15, 2025, 2:44 pm • 112 19 • view
That is super funny
jun 15, 2025, 5:56 pm • 6 0 • view
I kept blinking as I was watching, WTF?
jun 16, 2025, 12:21 am • 1 0 • view
jun 15, 2025, 7:55 am • 8 0 • view
I was under the impression that drill is not a very well practiced thing with American troops, is that not correct?
jun 15, 2025, 11:53 pm • 2 0 • view
Marine veteran here. It is absolutely not correct. Working as a team is one of the cornerstones of military discipline.
jun 16, 2025, 4:12 pm • 2 0 • view
My husband was Army. He said you are either marching or running.
jun 16, 2025, 12:28 am • 9 0 • view
I thought the same. Instep is instilled into you, day one. Judging by the looks on their faces and the sloppy formation, it was intentional.
jun 15, 2025, 7:24 am • 120 7 • view
If you can't even get them to march in step for you, I don't know how you think you can get them to kill the citizens of their own country for you.
jun 15, 2025, 10:11 am • 32 4 • view
It’s comforting to a small degree.
jun 15, 2025, 12:05 pm • 18 0 • view
Definitely agree.
jun 15, 2025, 7:28 am • 10 0 • view
Abso-fucking-lutely! Love that military and marching band veterans picked up on this!!
jun 15, 2025, 8:16 am • 4 0 • view
😁 bsky.app/profile/scot...
jun 15, 2025, 5:49 am • 29 0 • view
They didn't want to be there. I love the subtlety of it. They made Hegseth "shine" lol.
jun 15, 2025, 9:57 am • 91 3 • view
I thought so too from the clips I saw. They did not want to be there and they were showing it.
jun 15, 2025, 7:53 am • 6 0 • view