Military parades...

[ButcherBill]

Completely by coincidence I happened to see some of yesterdays Trooping the Colour, did I feel proud to be British? not particulary but I do enjoy watching the occasional bit of drill, I'm in the habit of watching Youtube while browsing social media or gaming and Trumps parade featured heavily so I'm currently watching it out the corner of my eye and thinking, Oooo Charlie might have liked a bit of military hardwear rattling about (in the middle of easily spooked horses), but what did make me feel a bit patiotic was comparing the US marching to the UK's, chalk & cheese.

 

Nothing says Merica like multi cam, tanks & sponsorship of a parade.

[Dogsbody100]

I agree there’s a ton of difference in US v UK, there’s pride in the armed forces on both sides however the yanks go about it in a different way.

 

The displays seen on the India/Pakistan border are something else though, it’s as much a show as it is drill but they take it seriously there, very different from that seen in any of our trooping displays. 
 

Then there’s the guards at the tomb of the unknown soldier, supreme accuracy and attention to detail. 

[ButcherBill]

Definitely, I feel a good 'ol' Communist block parade is needed this week.

[Dogsbody100]

13 minutes ago, ButcherBill said:

Definitely, I feel a good 'ol' Communist block parade is needed this week.

Indeed, I'm no communist but that would be something to see again, I remember well the ‘victory day’ parades that used to appear on the news in the 80’s, hordes of infantry, ICBM’s, tanks, mass flypasts and everything in between. They certainly believed in numbers back then!