Talk:Parade (military)
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I created this page, (Weatherman667,) before I got my account. As soon as I figure out how to sign it to my name, I will.
This article is well done. Maurreen 16:00, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Cleared up some things for me. BritBoy 22:37, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)
The bit about kilted soldiers not bringing their legs up to 90 degrees is wrong. As an ex-sergeant major in a Highland Regiment I can assure you that when I was taught drill and when I taught it myself,there was always insistence on having the thighs parallel to the ground and the lower leg at right anglesat the top of the movement.
coileachmor@ntlworld.com 01:14, 8th May 2005
This article doesn't represent a world-wide view, as it is a mixture of American, British Commonwealth, and other methods of military parades. Might we consider splitting up each section of drill into perhaps American and British Commonwealth? Patar knight 22:57, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Drill
Most of this article concerns drill. This is another article's worth of information. There can still be an article on military parades in general.--jrleighton 00:36, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Why?
I'd be interested to see more discussion on what drill is really for in the modern world. Apart from the one reference to riot control, it appears to be largely a matter of ceremony nowadays. In this world of defence cutbacks how can our fighting forces waste so much time learning what are essentially ceremonial maneuvers?!
Of course the other answer is that it encourages teamwork, but then there are plenty of other exercises that do this too, while teaching more practical skills. Or is it a way of training people to respond to orders without thinking? Or to break the minds of the more belligerent conscripts?
Just some food for thought. I don't know enough about the subject, but would be interested to see more on this in the article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.106.135.90 (talk) 13:43, 28 February 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Merger
Support. I support the fact that this article should be merged, both are pretty close to the same anyways, so why keep them apart? And also they are not just "ceremonial maneuvers" as it was so crudely put, they are there so that is is easy to know where everyone is and where you can go. Zazzer 00:59, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
The merger with Drill(military) if it was needed, which I contest as being neccessary,has been the wrong way. Parade drill is only one aspect of military drill. Whilst moving parade military to military drill would make sense.The two articles fit badly together in the parade article. What place has for example unarmed combat drill and musket drill have in a page titled parade. Just because the parade article was the longer of the two does not make it the logical destination page for a merger. If the merger is deemed appropriate, I propose resurrecting the Drill(military) page and making parade a subsection of it.Koonan the almost civilised 11:08, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
