Every one knows I was a "Devil Dog". I was watching a baseball game last night and I get one hell of a treat. The Marine Silent Drill Team. I joke with all members of the military. We all give each other hell any chance we get. I will say this about the Silent Drill Team- The greatest show on earth! Now for you Thunderbird/Blue Angles fans, "Our show is in the sky not on earth!" Well, your show leaves one hell of a carbon footprint. Burns way to much of the earth's resources, and frankly if I can do it on PS3 Flight Sim it ain't a challenge. To top it all off, my neck starts to get sore 5 mins into the 6 min show!
The United States Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon is a 24-man rifle platoon that performs without any verbal commands. All you will ever hear is the slap of their hands on the rifles. The routine concludes with a unique rifle inspection sequence demonstrating elaborate rifle spins and tosses.
These Devil Dogs are individually selected from the Schools of Infantry located in Camp Pendleton, CA and Camp Lejune, NC from interviews conducted by Barracks personnel. Once selected, Marines are assigned for a 2 year ceremonial tour.
The Marine Corps is using these guys in commercials. I have put it in the video bar to the right. This commercial is so stirring that I still get chills everytime I watch it. It shows the famous Silent Drill Team performing portions of their sequential close-order rifle drills at various locations across the country in what comes out to represent a solidline across America from coast to coast. They start at sunrise by a New England lighthouse, go thru Times Square, down Main Street USA, at the St. Louis Arch, through a farm field, across a vast open prairie in front of the Rocky Mountains, across the rim of the Grand Canyon, over the top of the Hoover Dam, and ending up at the end of the day in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge. In the span of a few seconds, they represent our nation from sea to shining sea.
It is a stirring sight, these rock hard, ramrod, utencils of death, Devil Dogs in their dress blue jackets and white pants, sequentially spinning polished M-1 Garand rifles with fixed bayonets in perfect time. This is truly the finest ceremonial/demonstration team the United States military has to offer.
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