442ndRCT Soldier's Forum

Mayo wrote:It would be cool to ride in Tim's Jeep for this thing instead of suffering the confusion of trying to march in formation with the crowd noise and trying to hear the cadence over it.

That would be but I heard thats its only like 2 vehicles for the entire CHG or something like that.

davep wrote:We(CHG) only can bring two vehicles, which is the Stuart Tank and the Halftrack. As far a cadance, Ron Lane does a good job. But to Mayo's point when someone else does it or worse two guys do it, it doesn't work. Also as Rich mentioned at the last PTO battle, who ever it is, they must have a strong, deliberate voice, which is concrete and aubible.

Ah multiple platoons! Yup the hardest. The easiest way to do it, especially since we aren't individually marching but as a group is to use marching music. Anything from Sousa, to Civil War, to classic Fife and Drum works just as long as its 120 beats a minute. Then you can read. Maybe we'll have a marching band nearby. Now if they only played marches, we'd be fine!

Listen to anything Sousa you can almost imagine as soon as you step off that first bass drum hit at the beginning of the song is your left. After that its just 2 steps a second. But the drum beats either on your left... or constantly through both feet.

IIRC a proper command voice has good: Tone, Volume, Inflection, and Cadence.

An excellent article presented from an outside POV:http://www.slate.com/id/2112484/

So, can we ride in the jeep with you and the MV club? or do we have to march the parade route with the CHG guys.

Ah. Ok. No ticky, no ridey. Lol. No problem

Lol, Tim. With my back issue, the pain goes into my left hip. Working the clutch aggrivates that hip. By the time the parade was over, I would want to blow my own brains out. Thank you very much for the offer. I really would like to do it, but it would kill my lower back sir.

Well looks like I'm good to go. We're getting a long weekend.

So 34th, full marching kit?


And, Fernie, drop me a PM with your house's addy so I can googlemap my way there... Or I'll have the day before off, if Tim wants to put up with me for a night... But I'll need your addy too...