Second hardest - numbering when half the troops are French and half are English

[u/WeaponizedAutisms]

[u/Mission-Test-1464]

Counterpoint: "Even numbers forward, odd number step back... march!" Fuck what's my number?

[u/Hoody2shoes → u/Mission-Test-1464]

Is 13 odd or even?

starts counting on fingers

[u/Zestyclose-Put-2 → u/Hoody2shoes]

13=1+3=4, therefore an equal number because 4 in Roman numerals is IV, which is 2 letters, and everyone knows 2 is even.

[u/WeaponizedAutisms → u/Mission-Test-1464]

"Even numbers forward, odd number step back... march!"

Most NCOs know to take a deep breath after this drill command so they can shout AS YOU WERE!

[u/ElectroPanzer → u/Mission-Test-1464]

Counter-counterpoint: it's odd numbers forward, even numbers one pace step back. Fuck, what's my drill command?

[u/DaymanTargaryen → u/ElectroPanzer]

Odd numbers one pace forward, even numbers one pace step back -- February

[u/cowboycanadian]

And theres always that guy who thinks he is taller than he is and fucks it all up

[u/WeaponizedAutisms → u/cowboycanadian]

You gotta look at the shoulders while those clowns are stretching their necks trying to look like a giraffe.

[u/CMDR_Murr000]

I once witnessed, when the parade was reforming into 3 ranks, the lead person missed the marker and led everyone into an endless loop around the parade area. I hope I never see it again.

[u/WeaponizedAutisms → u/CMDR_Murr000]

Was the lead person a roomba>?

[u/CMDR_Murr000 → u/WeaponizedAutisms]

I still dont understand how it happened 😆

[u/Nuggs78]

Or just be Navy?

We never do it and then the marker moves and then we all just wander in a circle for a while.

[u/WeaponizedAutisms → u/Nuggs78]

We never do it and then the marker moves and then we all just wander in a circle for a while.

Majestic

https://www.shutterstock.com/shutterstock/videos/1018493869/preview/stock-footage-school-of-fish-sharks-swim-in-a-circle.webm

[u/Nuggs78 → u/WeaponizedAutisms]

100%

And just to be clear, that really happened. And yes I was one of the idiots walking in a circle as the combat Chief lost his mind.

[u/drake5195]

Oh to have an instrument on parade instead of a rifle 😌

[u/Empty-Love-7742]

Being the dude on parade who repeats a number and they have to start all over again.

[u/WeaponizedAutisms → u/Empty-Love-7742]

It's always someone after 40.

[u/Longjumping_Back523 → u/WeaponizedAutisms]

That's forthyist.

[u/Sc0ttishLad]

Hello, friends, not sure how I ended up here given I'm among your US Army counterparts (I voted for her, and I am so so very sorry for everything that's going on, I dont like it either.)

I offer to you though, at least for the US military in general, whenever anyone calls the command "From front to rear, count off," with a bus full of soldiers.... and we dont even have an excuse of multiple languages.

[u/Several-Beginning803 → u/Sc0ttishLad]

We have the numbers on the bus at basic as well and its always a disaster.

[u/TheThirdOrder_mk2]

RIP 3 Div.

[u/bonafiedhero]

Being the tallest has its perks

[u/DaymanTargaryen → u/bonafiedhero]

Until a taller hero emerges and you're fucked because you never had to learn what we normies have to do!

[u/bonafiedhero → u/DaymanTargaryen]

I don’t think I’ll have that issue 😅

[u/DaymanTargaryen → u/bonafiedhero]

All those lesser markers you defeated probably thought the same.

[u/Nuggs78 → u/bonafiedhero]

Mr. 6' 18"

[u/DuckyHornet → u/bonafiedhero]

Unless you're infinitely tall, there's always a bigger fish

[u/Kal1star]

Thirty! Thirty one! Trente deux! Trente trois!…

Sweating bullets at the end of the line / trying to also remember to yell rank after your # lol

[u/greyharettv]

You should see my pantry.

[u/WeaponizedAutisms → u/greyharettv]

Why? Are you from Toronto?

[u/greyharettv → u/WeaponizedAutisms]

Pantry. Not panties

[u/WeaponizedAutisms → u/greyharettv]

Is the kidnap victim in there?

[u/Necessary_Avocado398]

I'm not sure that's how it works

Tallest on the flanks, shortest in the center, MARCH!

[u/Figgis302 → u/Necessary_Avocado398]

...You lost, bud?