>before you fight you first have to learn how to do a funny walk
Lets be honest. Is it autism?

It's a devolved leftover from early modern formation fighting.
>be country
>have army
>formation fighting good
>drill your soldiers to do all sorts of crazy maneuvers like stop, move or even turn
>formations become more and more important
>drills become more elaborate
>parades are opportunity to show how well organised and, as such dangerous your army is
>warfare becomes more and more deadly
>formations are a bad idea
>parades and marching drills remain as archeotech
>since having lost their function, parades and drills become more and more elaborate in their movement
>what started out as functional is now just a ritual

>>63937029 (OP)
the theory i like is that it builds in-group cohesion and weeds out people who're psychologically unfit for following orders. if you can't do the silly walk without feeling embarrassed or breaking into laughter, how can we be sure you can do your job when under fire?

>>63937086
>we need you to do dumb shit without questioning jow fucking dumb it is, this is a good measure of capacity to follow orders and do shit that isn't dumb
This is very reasonable take, i propose we take it further and make getting fucked with a giant pink dildo a requirement as well. I mean if you can't do it then how good at following order are you, really?

>>63937138
better to let the troops come up with that one themselves

Goosestepping is aerobic, so it can also somewhat demonstrate fitness.
Although nothing will ever surpass Algerian RAMADAN RANCH.

>>63937138
Ooh, ooh, I know this part! This is the part of a thread when a vatnik posts the Marine deepthroating a dildo while the rest of his Company claps & cheers

The purpose of marching is to teach men how to assemble, move, think, and act as a cohesive unit. It is very important. Uniformity and discipline.

An army is composed of distinct units that move and act as a single entity, wars are directed by movements according to intelligence.

It is extremely important that every single movement is conducted with precise timing and that units can assemble and move in formations.

Why do people think marching = Goose steps?
Just lock your step in formation. It isn't that hard

Drill sucks but also I feel kind of cool when we do it properly.

>>63937083
Marching in formation is
Goose stepping mongoloids like these fuckers is just gay as shit and is aping the nazis

>>63937207
>The purpose of marching is to teach men how to assemble, move, think, and act as a cohesive unit. It is very important.
Or just thier controller. Thier controller is very important.

>>63937220
>It isn't that hard
Too hard on the President's brithday.

>>63937138
>make getting fucked with a giant pink dildo a requirement as well.
that has been a requirement of the Navy for at least 60 years.

>>63937029 (OP)
only full time parade units do this shit

>>63937029 (OP)
That's only during peacetime. Wait until they start drafting again and that shit goes out the window.

>>63937029 (OP)
If the past 20 years have taught us anything, is that there's a direct and inverse correlation between the ability to march in a parade and the ability to be successful in combat.
Murphys laws of combat hold true.
>No combat ready unit has ever passed inspection
>No inspection ready unit has ever passed combat

>>63937029 (OP)
It's conditioning you to automatically do what the man with the big hat tells you to do, without stopping to think about it. There are people who the army pays to think, but you are not one of them.

>>63937207
It tests your officers and logistics in a microcosm.

>>63937029 (OP)
No, it's the same as sperging out about the education system and having to learn and memorize dates and information you don't see necessary because you'll be a Twitch streamer when you grow up. You need the discipline and the ability to retain information to actually start having worthwhile thoughts and come up with ideas of your own. Else you'll just cope you're akshually smart but lazy or unmotivated or whatever.>>63937083

>>63937443
Retarded take.

>>63937989
It's this but one other thing as well, soldiers need a lot of bullshit in their lives to keep them occupied and motivated and used to accepting discipline.
You -can- relax the bullshit for some units though, if they are sufficiently self-motivated and self-disciplined. But relax the bullshit too far and you end up with SEALs instead of DELTA, guys who can probably shoot and kick doors but can't be trusted to do anything else or not go off and shoot up a bar full of hookers while high on coke or something.

>>63937989
No because the thinga people complain about in education are a meme and you actually learn knowlege and how to apply it
This is litterally just a funny walk. They are making you walk like a fucking retard

>>63937086
>>63937138
While this is an easy to understand explanation, it does not hold the light of examination.
While it was indeed considered back in the day that in-formation marching is something you train to improve in-group cohesion, more modern military-sociological research has shown that this is not the case.

Militaries have thrown a SHIT-TON of money into studies trying to figure out what exactly creates in-group cohesion, "espirit de corps" and "team spirit". How to turn a bunch of disorganized civvies into well-cooperating fighting machine.

And the most recent take is that ...a lot of the stuff that was done in the late 1800's and early 1900's (and hell, even late 1900's) to do that ...doesn't really work.
There are things that we can show to impact in-group cohesion, and this kind of in-line marching and old-fashioned "we must break the character of a person to re-mold them into soldiers" ...just doesn't work.

Things that DO work are stuff like "experiences of hardship shared with mates, especially if we then overcoming those hardships. Shared feelings of success, feelings of belonging, being one of the team" etc. Bullshit "you must goose-step in formation in order to be a proper soldier just does not positively create that.

source: Did my master's thesis on military manuals of early 1900's and their methods on cohesion building in comparison to modern military-sociological studies and what they consider to actually improve in-group cohesion.

"Beatings continue until morale improves" is conter-productive. You essentially turn the drill instructor into an enemy of the trainees... something to be overcome, rather than something to look inspiration from. If any "espirit de corps" is formed, it's formed despite the abusive training regime, not because of it.

"The ministery of Silly Walks" is indeed a relic of a bygone era, which some militaries still maintain due to sheer inertia of large organizations being slow to change their ways.

>>63938359
>Things that DO work are stuff like "experiences of hardship shared with mates, especially if we then overcoming those hardships. Shared feelings of success,
>You essentially turn the drill instructor into an enemy of the trainees... something to be overcome

Sounds like they know exactly what they're doing, by your own argument.

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Anon