Comments for "Precision Soldiers Performing Silent Drill with Music" Video at VideoSift.com

By calvados

calvados (http://www.videosift.com/member/calvados) — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:52:13 -0700

Go baby! Get out of the queue!

By TimothyChenAllen

TimothyChenAllen (http://www.videosift.com/member/TimothyChenAllen) — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:54:52 -0700

O Canada! Two observations:
1) Those Canadians know what their armed forces are for.
2) How is synchronized drill different from dancing?

By calvados

calvados (http://www.videosift.com/member/calvados) — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:25:24 -0700

Two responses:
1) If you're suggesting or supposing that this is all Canada's military does, I assure you, you're wrong;
2) Drill, practiced by all militaries to some extent in the pursuit of discipline and professionalism, is a rhythmic and co-ordinated movement of bodies in a group. To that extent, there are indeed similarities between drill and a dance routine. Major differences include the fact that drill is not done with the ultimate goals of either satisfying an audience, nor is it done for fun.

By calvados

calvados (http://www.videosift.com/member/calvados) — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:38:43 -0700

Blast, I can't add this to the army/navy/airforce collective 'cos I posted this before I joined up... unless somebody knows a workaround?

By MINK

MINK (http://www.videosift.com/member/MINK) — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:14:24 -0700

Drill is more like group sex than a dance routine.

And it is done for a civilian audience, and to impress other platoons or whatever.

It's totally a performance art / mind control device.

I love it.

The Lithuanian military band are the coolest in the world, i wish they'd put their james bond routine on youtube.

By calvados

calvados (http://www.videosift.com/member/calvados) — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:46:53 -0700

Drill is like group sex? You've been having the wrong kind of group sex.

By calvados

calvados (http://www.videosift.com/member/calvados) — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:41:18 -0800

*canada *military

By siftbot

siftbot (http://www.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:41:18 -0800

Adding video to channels (Canada, Military) - requested by calvados.

By firefly

firefly (http://firefly.videosift.com) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:41:53 -0700

*promote!

By siftbot

siftbot (http://www.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:41:53 -0700

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Thursday, March 15th, 2007 3:55am PDT - promote requested by firefly.

By phelixian

phelixian (http://www.videosift.com/member/phelixian) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:59:24 -0700

All those fancy moves won't help when the aliens arrive.

By Jinx

Jinx (http://www.videosift.com/member/Jinx) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:22:15 -0700

I imagine its actually somewhat easier to do with music, helps keep everybody on the same beat. The truly silent drills are amazing because everybody has to be synchronised without any sort of metronome. Still, upvote for final countdown

By charliem

charliem (http://www.videosift.com/member/charliem) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:58:01 -0700

The whole idea behind drill is discipline.
People can screw up, you scream at them to fix it, and when it starts looking good, you keep doing it until it is perfect. Its the DI's responsability to "drill" the troop until they get sick of it, to the point where they will start bettering themselves and working as a team to make it PERFECT in every sense.

When its done right, its done oh so right..and these guys have *almost* nailed it.
Few errors in there, some people not in step, others swinging arms not high enough, or too high...common mistakes, but overall, looks decent.

Would of taken them about a week, several hours every day, to get it this good.
Of course thats assuming the candidates were all really bloody good at drill to begin with.

Music only really helps if you can hear the beat over the rest of the song (listen for the constant 1 loud bang, followed by a quiter bang on the bass drum, that guy is in charge of keeping everyones pace).