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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 03:46, 9 January 2011: 52 s, 220 × 166 (2.37 MB): Benchill {{Information |Description={{en|1=Video clip of US Army soldiers calling cadence "Marching down the avenue", from: B-roll of Soldiers receiving Basic Combat Training at Fort Jackson, S.C. Scenes include Soldiers marching and standing in formation.
United States Army soldiers calling cadence, during Basic Combat Training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, in 2008. A military cadence or cadence call is a call-and-response work song sung by military personnel while running or marching. They are counterparts of the military march.
It was a really cool cadence but I can't remember it. jamie.lynn.powell@us.army.mil —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.88.247.42 16:19, 19 August 2008 (UTC) Removed section I removed a section that cited sources from geocities and progressive newspapers in order to make a politically motivated attempt to discredit the military.
This process was drilled into troops until they could do it by instinct and feel. The main advantage of the British Redcoats was that they trained at this procedure almost every day. The standard for the British Army was the ability to load and fire three rounds per minute. A skilled unit of musketeers was often able to fire four rounds per minute.
The full stanza that is most commonly used in these cadences goes " If i die in a combat zone, box me up and ship me home, pin my medals upon my chest, tell my momma I done my best." [citation needed] Actually, those marching cadences are attributable to the U.S. Army, specifically references to the C-130.
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By the late 1980s, the "Napalm" cadence had been taught at training to all branches of the United States Armed Forces.Its verses delight in the application of superior US technology that rarely if ever actually hits the enemy: "the [singer] fiendishly narrates in first person one brutal scene after another: barbecued babies, burned orphans, and decapitated peasants in an almost cartoonlike ...
Slow March: This is a ceremonial pace used for funeral marches and when a unit's colours are marched out in front of the troops. The feet are kept close to the ground and the arms are generally not swung. In the United States Army and Marine Corps, arms are swung the distance they normally would in quick time, but at the same pace as marching.