Parade Rest Vs At Ease

[SarDragon]

If you call any right-turning movement on the left foot, you're gonna get a mess.

[Spaceman3750]

IIRC, you call directional movements on the foot you're moving in. For example, "Column right, MARCH" would be.

-Right- Column Right
-Left-
-Right- MARCH
-Left- Pivot right

But it's also been a long time since I did drill.

[SarDragon]

That is exactly correct.

[vorter]

Who knows where to buy the Learn 2 Lead textbook.
It was supposed to be released July 1st on Vanguard but I cant find it.

[NIN]

Army calls pretty much all of their commands on the left foot... When doing columns, the Army keeps people marching at full steps rather then half steps until Forward March is called...  A lot of changes with Color Guard movements... I think the Army still has obliques while the AF got rid of them years ago... Does differences in calling commands count too? (Like Army says At-ten-Chun! vs. Ten-hut)

I neglected to reply to this one, but since I'm back from Annual Training and spent an inordinate amount of time with my nose in FM 3-21.5 teaching D&C, it leaps out at me..

(Note: I've spent too many years on the AF side of D&C, and every year when I teach Army D&C at AT, I remember more and more things and don't accidentally try to "Air Force-itize" things<GRIN>  This year was probably one of my best yet for doing it right all the time.  Only spent 14 years in an Army uniform, you'd think I'd get it right by now, huh?)

The Army doesn't really specifically call many more commands on the left foot than the right than the Air Force does.  I'd say 98% of the commands that the Army & the Air Force share are given on the same foot between services.

Also, the Army doesn't call a 'Forward, MARCH" after a column.  The Army does the "swinging gate" sort of thing (instead of the AF's "45-step-45" or "45-step-step-step-45" type of column) and when the members of a rank are "online" following the turns, they step off without continuing half step...

I kept having to remember to say "Aten-shun" not "Ten-hut.."

[DC]

Who knows where to buy the Learn 2 Lead textbook.
It was supposed to be released July 1st on Vanguard but I cant find it.

It is supposed to be available shortly, there have been some delays with the printing, or so I've heard.

It is also available for free download here.


Out of curiosity, does this have anything to do with Parade Rest vs. At Ease?

[davidsinn]

The Army does the "swinging gate" sort of thing (instead of the AF's "45-step-45" or "45-step-step-step-45" type of column) and when the members of a rank are "online" following the turns, they step off without continuing half step...

So they march like a marching band?

[SarDragon]

Also, the Army doesn't call a 'Forward, MARCH" after a column.  The Army does the "swinging gate" sort of thing (instead of the AF's "45-step-45" or "45-step-step-step-45" type of column) and when the members of a rank are "online" following the turns, they step off without continuing half step...

The Canoe Club calls the "45-step-45" thing a column movement, and the "swinging gate" thing a turn. We used turns almost exclusively in boot camp.