Veterans: Any interest in singing and marching to cadence?

[Brazz]

If there is interest from the TV community, we could form a Platoon that would meet once per week to sing cadences while marching.
If you are interested in participating at some level please let me know.
If you have actually "run troops" in the past we could use your experience and expertise.
Once again, I am exploring the level of interest in TV.

Thanks...and "Stand at Ease"

[redwitch]

I know a girl from Idaho.
She could shimmy down to her toes.
Am I right?
Your left, your right, oh you're right your left.

And that's the only clean cadence I know. I can also report to a wall and repeat the phonetical alphabet very fast. Amazing what military fathers can come up with for punishments. Count this brat out. I'd probably have nightmares after every drill.

[TheVillageChicken]

I spent four years as a drill instructor. I've had all that fun I'm gonna have.

[dbussone]

I spent four years as a drill instructor. I've had all that fun I'm gonna have.


Thank you for your service.

[Chatbrat]

Thank heaven I was in the submarine service, we didn't march

[DonH57]

As I have retired from the air force I too have had enough drill and marching.No more for me thanks.

[Walt.]

I don't know
but I've been told
Eskimo pies
are mighty cold.

Close enough.

Did I ever tell you about the time I spent fighting the Germans? Ok... it was 1967 but what's the difference...

I'll pass on the marching, but I could see where it could get some interest.

[manaboutown]

I was a percussionist and marched in the band in the US Army. The experience was sufficient to last me a lifetime. I will pass.

[outahere]

Just the thought of doing this is going to give me nightmares about my basic training drill instructor. I too will pass.

[Jima64]

Don't think so. Sounds kind of guy thing to me.

[Sandtrap328]

It would be a hoot to see how so many of our veterans (including myself) would fit (or try to fit) into their uniforms. Some of those flying buttons could put out an eye!

[BobnBev]

I count cadence on my morning walk (0300). Perhaps you've heard me....lol

[Topspinmo]

I was in the drums and bugle corps in basic training had to do all the parades and lowering of the flag. Do we get to dress up in our uniforms? Sounds fun to me. I can see it now army, navy, Air Force, marines, and coast guard all decked out! :BigApplause:

[Topspinmo]

It would be a hoot to see how so many of our veterans (including myself) would fit (or try to fit) into their uniforms. Some of those flying buttons could put out an eye!

Actually I have lost 25 pounds! :22yikes:

[RetiredInTV]

Hmm, I like the precision of marching as a group, and the skill to execute a turn as a group and stay in rank. I considered it a real honor to march with my unit in President Reagan's funeral parade.

Besides, this would meet my doctor's request to do more walking and enjoy doing it.

[downeaster]

I am not interested (read able) but your post brought back memories of basic training. It was Texas in August. Our DI would have us fall out after dinner when the temp was more tolerable. We called it "monkey drilling". Unorthodox commands. One of the favorites was "Simon says". No one wanted to the first out. He would do a string of commands one right after the other. The trick was to remember them. We actually enjoyed it.

Anyone remember?:

I gotta gal n San Antone
She don't like to sleep alone
Hip-hop
Wring out the mop
Left-o-right-o-left.
Sound off!!!

[John_W]

I took basic at Ft. Polk, LA. Our company was half regular army and half reserves. Hall of Fame tightend Charlie Sanders of the Detroit Lions was one of the reserves and they picked him to be our Field First. The drill sgts also let Charlie lead all of our marches since his steps were so long. He was 6'4" 230 lbs, so when marching in the third platoon like I had to, we were running most of the time just to keep in step. I think I've done all the marching I want to do. Besides I ride the bike for 60 minutes each day at MVP, play on 2 softball teams and play 18 holes once a week. I could probably still fit in my uniform but I'm 2" taller now than when I went in the Army at age 19, but only 20 pounds heavier.

When I came back from overseas I was stationed at Hunter AAF in Savannah, it's where the Army was training Vietnamese pilots to fly helicopters. By the fall of 1972 the base was starting to shut down and the flight training had stopped for the most part. Suddenly we no longer had new troops coming in, so even though I was an E-5 I had to pull guard duty and funeral detail. That was the worse part of my 3 years in the Army. About five times we were sent down to Jacksonville to a cemetary, there would be 7 soldiers each with a rifle and one squad leader. We would ride a little green Army bus for about two hours down I-95 and after the family arrived we got the nod, our squad would fire our rifles 3 times each for a 21 gun salute. It was kind of surreal because by late '72 it seemed the war was about over and so far away, and then suddenly we saw them putting a soldier in the ground.

[manaboutown]

During the first six months of 1965 at Fort Jackson, SC where I played in the band the trumpet players pulled the funeral gigs to play taps. They were the last to be picked up in the vans and had to sit on the motor housing up front since all the seats were taken. The Viet Nam conflict was just getting started for the US so the burials were almost exclusively for "old soldiers".

[NECHFalcon68]

Ft Benning - Jump School - "Jody Jody have you heard, we're gonna jump from a big iron bird..."
Black hats...beat your boots...6 minutes...stand in the door....1 mississippi 2 mississippi 3 mississippi 4...
Fond(?) memories of time 43 years ago and about 40 pounds lighter....
Can't walk a straight line now.....

[outlaw]

Have you tried line dancing?

[graciegirl]

Ft Benning - Jump School - "Jody Jody have you heard, we're gonna jump from a big iron bird..."
Black hats...beat your boots...6 minutes...stand in the door....1 mississippi 2 mississippi 3 mississippi 4...
Fond(?) memories of time 43 years ago and about 40 pounds lighter....
Can't walk a straight line now.....



Enjoying reading all of these memories.


Here is one more big and heart felt THANK YOU to all of you. I am so proud to live here with you all..

[Whalen]

When my father came home from the Korean War I was little more than a toddler.
He taught me cadence and I would march around the living room singing:

Sound off 1,2
Sound off 3,4
Sound off 1,2,3,4
Sound off
Go to your left, your right your left....

There were others but that's the one I remember.

Thanks for the memory, a good one from a long time ago.

[Walt.]

This could make for some interesting line dancing on the square.
Perhaps they could play Vaughn Monroe's "Sound Off (the Duckworth Chant)."