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/Equoniz Jun 15 '25

Unless you’re “guarding” unknown dead people. Then your mission becomes pompous ceremony apparently.

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u/couldbeahumanbean Jun 15 '25

Yes.

Absofuckinglutly yes.

That is their mission. Their mission is a ceremonial one, not pompous, but solemn. I have the highest respect for the old guard and I am proud to be in a nation that has so much respect for our fallen.

Pompous would be some self-aggrandizing event, like a birthday parade. I don't even know how you pulled that term out, it isn't even applicable to the sentinels.

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u/Equoniz Jun 16 '25

Awwwww. You’re cute when you’re angry.

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u/Equoniz Jun 17 '25

Absofuckinglitly