Goose stepping looks painful ...

[dogtag]

Might also prevent one from becoming a parent.

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Nice shoes lads, and watch where you put that bayonet.

[JB White]

Quite a celebration. Very impressive. They like that sort of thing. Too bad they won't stand for it here.

Lads? The women look to be moving along just a wee bit too close for comfort. I would hate to have a knee knocked out from under me in that crowd. Akin to a pile up at the bottom of an escalator.

[Roadkingtrax]

JB, that's why taller guys go in the front when marching.

[Allen]

Hope we never have to fight them but if SHTF one moab would put quite a dent in their celebration. The problem would be the delivery of not being detected.

[Vern Humphrey]

They have one armored division -- the 105th Armored Division. They don't have enough fuel to run it.

[blackhawknj]

Doesn't hurt as much as being sent to their version of the Gulag.

[Mark in Ottawa]

Notice all the medals that the ladies are wearing. Since they haven't been in a war in over 60 years, one wonders what they were awarded for. Being the gentleman that I am, I won't speculate in a public forum but they do have fairly short skirts; hmmmm?

[dogtag]

Because those randy old Generals get to pin medals on their boobs.

[Vern Humphrey]

I can tell you goose stepping IS painful.

During WWII the first Commandant of the Artillery Officer Candidate School was Carl Jark. By the early '60s, he was a general and commanded the Continental Army. So the practices he established were flourishing. One of them was the weekend punishment tour. This was a march conducted at high speed with the goose step. It went from the Regimental Headquarters to the top of Medicine Bluff 4 and back, 5.4 miles and had to be completed in 50 minutes (or you had to do it over.) After a 30 minute rest, those with a lot of demerits got to do it again.

It was sometimes called the Jark March, and sometimes the Easter March -- because first you were tortured by the cruel Roman soldiers, then you carried your burden up the hill, and you did not rise again until the third day.