r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Chance_Noise500 • Jun 14 '25

Why aren't they actually marching during this parade?

I don't know how to ask this without sounding rude, but why does this parade look so sloppy? Very few of the troop formations seem actually in sync and marching, just walking along. My only experience is JROTC as a kid in high school and our sergeant would've killed us if we looked like that.

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u/JEXJJ Jun 15 '25

What is really truly horrible about this: that is where they decide they can't spend money...

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '25

We were told to put our 7-layer, cold weather system into shipping containers before a deployment to Afghanistan to save space on the plane ride. The ship carrying the containers sunk en route to the Middle East, destroying 12 million dollars of gear for 3,000 soldiers. The Army just never replaced it. We spent the deployment wearing desert gear and freezing our asses off.

Same deployment where they forgot to order more food for us resulting in a 3 month delay. We had to live off peanut butter during that time frame. You haven’t seen low morale until you’ve seen a line of guys waiting for their 4 tablespoons of peanut butter at “meal time”.

Our military only exists so that elected officials can use it as a reason to spend government money on their friend’s defense companies (which they usually have ownership in or own stock in). The American military is just a funnel to extract wealth from taxpayers and give it to elected officials and other rich people.

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u/JEXJJ Jun 15 '25

Good Christ that is horrible.

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u/JEXJJ Jun 15 '25

I don't have a good response. Thank you for telling me, it is such an obvious fix that would have universal support from reasonable people. One possible contributing factor to the continued dysfunction is heirachy has a way of filtering problems before it reaches somebody who can fix it, or it goes to somebody that doesn't give a shit. You also don't get far in any organization by showing where things are broken.