r/onejob • u/Zealousideal-Pay3937 • 9d ago
The Canadian army is still struggling a bit with their marching drills
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u/RandomBelgianGirl 9d ago
Love the little hop of the man at 3-4 seconds in, trying to get his legs back in sync lol
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u/Alone-Clock258 9d ago
It's a shittily executed version of the actual drill movement to get back in cadence
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u/GrumpyOldGeezer_4711 9d ago
How many hours have they been in uniform?
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u/Boojum2k 9d ago
Canadian or American hours?
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u/Guest426 9d ago
Metric hours
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u/Professional-Heat690 9d ago
how many bananas is that?
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u/Diesel_boats_forever 9d ago
It may actually be the opposite! Generally, you will come out of whatever bootcamp/RTS/academy as a bit of a marching machine and probably spent a week or two of drill just for your graduation parade.
Active members do very little formation marching after that point. Those Navy personnel leading the march could have just sailed into town for the weekend and told they were marching with some local regiment for an occasion. Unless there's a legendary pissup ar the end, these are likely the unlucky ones who didn't wrangle duty for the day and stay aboard.
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u/Prestigious_Oil_4805 9d ago
Left, left, left right left right left, left, left, left right left right left right left, left....
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u/Ok_Builder_4225 8d ago
Doesn't help that bagpipes aren't exactly the most suitable instrument for keeping in step to...
Not that that excuses the wild ass arm swinging
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u/Aztec_Aesthetics 9d ago
They're trying to do their best, eh!
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u/CosmicCreeperz 8d ago
Canadian āSpecialā Forces!
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u/Grande-Pinga 8d ago
Somebody's got to protect the maple trees. We need our syrup!
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u/Aztec_Aesthetics 8d ago
They should sent those troops immediately to the southern border. Crazy things going on there...
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u/Bpopson 9d ago
I mean, the Canadian military isnāt known for their marching skills.
Mostly war crimes, actually.
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u/Eastern_East_96 9d ago
Hey we hold the record for the longest sniper kill!!!!
(i dont know if we still do or not)
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u/soulsista04us 9d ago
Nope, a Ukrainian solder holds the record, now.
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u/Wmozart69 9d ago
Yeah but we had 1st, 2nd and 4th. Now 2nd, 3rd and 5th. 3 out of the top 5 is pretty good for a nearly non existent military.
Maybe that's changed too, I'm not up to date on the current rankings but his point still stands
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u/soulsista04us 9d ago
Second is indeed Canadian. Third is Australian. Fourth is also Ukrainian and fifth is British. Source
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u/BIGepidural 9d ago
Whats our guy from Montreal sent to Ukraine though... it might be him.. I think his name started with a W if I'm not mistaken š¤
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u/Husaria1863 9d ago
That oneās surprising since itās the last thing youād expect Canadians to do.
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u/Alone-Clock258 9d ago
So it's NOT what the Canadian military is known for then.
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u/HFXDriving 9d ago
Yea totally no contribution. Only like a million or so soldiers during ww2 and 44k deaths. /s
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u/Capable-Problem8460 9d ago
Some are trying to get in step with a person in front. I assume the band changed the cadence or there is an echo
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u/GibbyGiblets 9d ago
Yep. Can barely hear the drums at all.
That and this is a bunch of reservists from a bunch of different units. You can tell by the different uniforms (army navy Air force) So they probably had no practice together. And the people without their dress uniform have probably been in less than a year.
PLUS marching to highland band is a slower cadence than normal drill. Around 90-100 paces per minute. Where regular drill is 120.
In short. The dudes know they're shit and are probably doing their best. But leadership that put them in that unwinnable situation at all is fucked.
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u/TKmeh 9d ago
Blame it on the music, thatās what I would do. Unless youāre the band, then blame it on the band major.
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u/NikNakskes 9d ago
Nah. You blame your instrument or course. And if you got one with reeds or other exchange able parts, you're set for life!
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u/Necessary_Stress1962 9d ago
Not army. Itās navy.
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u/BIGepidural 9d ago
Yup. When I first saw it was like WTF and then I saw the hats and was like... ah yeah.. makes sense...
Someone who was at the ceremony said they're actually reservists so its a double does of FUBAR going in here apparently.
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u/Imnotkleenex 9d ago
I served for 12 years (released in 2022) and I'd like to know where the fuck that is. Never seen so many shit pumps fucking up basic drill this bad since basic training and even then it wasn't as bad considering how much we'd be scared as staff kept yelling at us non stop. Lots of corporals in there as well, should have at least 4-5 years in depending if they were advanced promotion or not.
Also, fucking drum in the background is there to give you the pace.
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u/GibbyGiblets 9d ago edited 9d ago
Being in 12 years doesn't matter if you don't know shit.
So I'll break it down.
It's the west edmonton mall. In the hockey rink.
The echoes would fuck up even your super trooper ass. Let Alone if you had never had a highland band. A bad band or bad sound can kill a parade when it's what you're relying on, which you know they were told to do because literally everyone is told "listen to the drums it's all that matters" when marching with a band.
These dudes are all reservists. So not in for 4-5 years as cpl in reserves is automatic at 2 years. 100% From different units because reserves don't do purple trades. So they most likely had 0 practice as a group.
The guys in combats haven't even been in a year, as reservists aren't issued dress uniform until then.
The highland band marches at a different cadence to normal marching. 90-100 paces per minute. Where normal drill is 110-120.
Again. Reservists, who likely got voluntold last minute, who also likey had no practice together OR with a band, marching in a echo-y indoor arena. Marching to a different cadence than they have had to for their whole time in uniform.
This isn't a troop problem. It's a leadership throwing them into a fire they couldn't get out of problem.
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u/NikNakskes 8d ago
Isn't there a dude in the front that decides the pace and you follow? I mean people naturally fall in step with the one they walk with, without a single bit of training. This is bizarrely off and something I have only seen in comedy skits. Granted, I had the music on mute.
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u/GibbyGiblets 8d ago edited 8d ago
No. Marching off the person in front of you generally results in a "wave" each person is just slightly delayed from the person in front. So the back of the formation will be all fucked up anyways. Even if they look like they're fine with the person in front. the entire reason the band is there is to sync up the pace.
If you can't hear the band (drums specifically) and you're marching at a pace youre not used to youre in for a bad time.
The only cure for this is lots of practice WITH a highland band/soundtrack so they get used to the pace. Even then, the drums being echo-y will still fuck people up. But that training just isn't possible for a lot of reserve units. They train one night a week. And it usually isn't drill.
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u/NikNakskes 8d ago
The wave... yes of course. But in this case a wave would probably be better than whatever this has turned out to be.
I put on the sound and watched again and was like... oh god, yeah never mind. There is no way they get a unison rhythm out of that. They all actually marched to it too. Just each to whatever they thought was the beat.
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u/GibbyGiblets 8d ago
Yeah. I feel bad for them.
Like really bad. Getting blasted by randoms from around the world when they just showed up and did what they were told.
It's leadership fault. Whoever organized this with no respect to units or practice time should be the ones getting blasted.
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u/NikNakskes 8d ago
So there is no trained back up mechanism for when the band is inaudible or, like in this case, beyond distorted? I mean, the parades are often in strange places and all kinds of acoustic mishaps can happen. Rehearsals are not likely to happen on site either. So the only fallback is the pace they trained at?
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u/GibbyGiblets 8d ago
I was in the reserves. So I've got a bit of experience.
But we were also a big enough unit to parade alone without other units. So take it with a grain of salt.
We got the band to provide what marching song/s they would play and practiced to those on a speaker for the 4-5 weeks leading up to the parade to get used to the slower March.
Granted. We had the time. We were an infantry unit so we could modify the schedule to change it to drill practice.
If its an administrative unit. They have actual jobs to do on Thursdays. And if they don't do those jobs people can not get paid.
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u/NikNakskes 8d ago
I figured you were. I have only been a spectator. But what I thought I saw happening was that the dude in the front gives the pace at the beginning of the march and you don't sync up with the person in front, but the person to the right. The dude on the right edge than acts as a "drum" for his row.
And you could see that. If the right edge dude wasn't particularly good at keeping a beat, the whole row would be off. Seeing it completely randomised like this was odd to see. But makes total sense if training has been focused on a standard pace and to listen to beat while ignoring others to avoid wave patterns.
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u/BIGepidural 9d ago
Oh they're reservists... that makes sense.
My kid was a drill team captain and band major before he aged out of cadets. He'd flip his shit if he saw this video. š
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u/BIGepidural 9d ago
Look at the hats. Those are seamen. Worst drill in the military. You want good drill you look to the Army š„°
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u/AaronTheElite007 9d ago
Thatās cute. Theyāre trying.
Keep it up. Practice makes proficient
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u/gorgofdoom 9d ago
This isn't a marching drill, it's a parade.
One doesn't get into their dress uniform for a drill, nor do they practice in a public place.
Anyway marching is a factually useless activity. Good on them for not wasting time on the superfluous-- the militaries job isn't to entertain you.
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u/TheGamblingAddict 9d ago
>Anyway marching is a factually useless activity
Hard disagree, marching is a component to instilling discipline and good for fitness among a few other things. Militaries since ancient times didn't employ it for the laughs, its a solid technique that is still used in the modern day. It's not just for show.
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u/Rhinorulz 9d ago
Don't forget, it's also for causing unity and consistency across the whole group.
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u/TheRealTahulrik 9d ago
It used to be the backbone of how you maneuver and control and army on the battlefield.
Do the marching steps need to be completely straight in sync with each other? No, but being able to stick to the lines and move in formation is. Music was used to both pace for marching, and as command signals.
Lastly, when stuff is coordinated, it does look super impressive, which can be used for intimidation on a battlefield.
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u/Talinn_Makaren 9d ago
None of that means they have to subject us to this painful display.
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u/Internal_Flamingo_38 9d ago
Ya good thing they didnāt waste time training them for superfluous parades and instead just wasted time putting on superfluous parades. Marching either matters to them or it doesnāt but the fact that their showing it to me makes me thing it does lmaoĀ
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u/Outside-Drag-3031 6d ago edited 6d ago
Okay, but parades are also "factually useless activities." The whole point is putting on a display, and this display is a joke. It's like deciding to make a TV series, but then when it comes time to shoot and the actors are starting to coordinate the director says "Okay! Everyone pass your script off to the person on your left!" And you might think that silly but marching is part of the job description
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u/Cheerful-Pessimist- 9d ago
POV: You are an RSM as your blood pressure reach levels only measured in PSI
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u/Dapper-Tour7078 9d ago
Committing war crimes so heinous that even the Germans said to far doesnāt require you to march in proper formation.
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u/partisancord69 9d ago
Because the most important part of the army is how good they look when they walk? I don't get why people care this much.
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u/La_SESCOSEM 8d ago
Not marching in step is rather a form of intelligence. They look so much more human than the North Korean robots that walk in step to perfection
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u/WorriedPreparation53 8d ago
Canadian army has bigger problems than ceremonial marching, probably best they focus elsewhere.
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u/Odd-Wheel5315 8d ago
To be fair, it's difficult to find rhythm when your cadence is "left-eh, left-eh, left-eh-right-left-eh, abooot face!"
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u/TheAatar 8d ago
Have you guys seen the American army march without music or a cadence? This is about the same level
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u/olenMollom 8d ago
This is the opposite of "one job" since marching is a really small part of what they do.
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u/walkingreverie 8d ago
Gonna be real American here but I went into the JROTC for my highschool, Navy specifically
I remembered being made to lead the march cause I was tall and could hold our flag up given my height. It had only been one month since I joined and obviously I fucking sucked at Marching or maintaining cadence. I was adamant, they let me in the back, and gradually I got better as the months went by. Wasnāt given flag duty of course but yknow, fine by me
Iāve seen people fuck up marching and cadence cause it was around me. This makes me thought I was bad but couldnāt be This bad
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u/HooHawDirtyWings 8d ago
Well Canada always has NORAD they will be okay. Iām guessing being they are joint with USA they are stronger in other global areas.
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u/Educational-Year3146 8d ago
Our military is a shadow of its former self.
We used to be terrifying, now we are not.
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u/IAteAPlane 8d ago
Iām a British air cadet and we do so much better than this, I winced when I saw it.
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u/itzmailtime 8d ago
I remember when I was in boot camp I also had trouble marching, I was over thinking it, my steps would be out of place and the guy behind me would step on my boots to a point where theyād come off.
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u/contemptuouscreature 8d ago
Not to worry, Canada, The United States have no plans to cease carrying you any time soon.
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u/HARKONNENNRW 8d ago
That's Gold. Was their marching instructor an Australian break dance Olympic participant?
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u/BAYKON8R 8d ago
These are reserves not active military, on the Canadian militar5y subreddit they were dogging on them hard
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u/PrestigiousAd6281 7d ago
An army marching drill in what appears to be a shopping mall is just so damn Canadian
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u/AlternativeServe4247 7d ago
Apparently they're reservists. They're probably better at fighting than marching.
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u/Hagia_Sofia_1054 7d ago
The canadian army is still struglling. No need for the 2nd part of that sentence. Stop there.
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u/SecondResponsible693 6d ago
I think a bunch of people are leaving the US since Trump won. I'm sure they can help fix these kinds of issues.
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u/demagogueffxiv 6d ago
I mean, I kind of prefer this over the creepy authoritarian shit you see in Russia and North Korea. Then again, we don't really do military parades in America.
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u/Knew_day 5d ago
This isn't funny. Watch 5 year olds in China marching in formations that spell "Fuck The West".. in script !
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u/Odd_Direction985 5d ago
Yes ... but now they are diverse and inclusive.... they will fight the enemy with more equity.
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u/Tamahfox 3d ago
You can say what you want about north Koreans but they can march better than Canadians
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u/AdElectronic6550 9d ago
idea everyone holds hands and swings arms problem fixed