Posted on Apr 19, 2015

Have you ever created your own cadence?

CH (MAJ) William Beaver

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Have you ever created your own military cadence ? Did you use it? Was it a blend of an existing one or was it a total original ? Care to share a few lines of it here ?

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SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S.

Posted >1 y ago

So...
Why do Marines only count to 4 in their cadence calls?

Because they are unsure as to what come next

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Sgt Martin V.

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What comes after 4 is obviously YES

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SFC Mark Merino

Posted >1 y ago

I did, but that was when we had scars on our knuckles and didn't have to look over our shoulder......or be 4 miles out from base.

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CPL JeMario Laurie

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Yes, I did. I was put on the spot on a battalion run. Having never called cadence at the time, I froze up. It's crazy how you can yell cadence all day in formation. But when you are leading a cadence, it all disappears. So, instead of trying to remember one of the many cadences we called every day, I just made a cadence out of a song I knew. Little did I know, everyone liked it because it was "new" and it broke the monotony.

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LTC (Join to see)

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Yes... it was fun and saying cadence was a great team building exercise

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SrA David McCombs

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That was the thing to do during basic. Many of the BMTS squadrons that were in our areas all had flights that had a bunch of 'em. We had three or four.

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