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The Forbidden Dance...

Dr. Drill

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Dr. Drill,

In my squadron, at the command FLIGHT (squadron) FALL, OUT, we take one step backward and face about, last night a senior member from another squadron pointed out that we were doing it wrong. He said that was the movement for dismissed. What is the proper way to fall out of a flight formation?

C/SSGT Janna Rose
Grissom Cadetr SQ
Bravo Flight Sgt

Dr. Drill responds


Hi Janna!

I've got some good news and some bad news, sergeant. First the good news: the major is wrong.

Now the bad: So are you.

Dr. Drill dug with great difficulty and at great length using the 'Search' feature on the main page (total time: 25.7 seconds, total difficulty: 10 keystrokes, five mouse clicks) to find this old response by way of which I answered your question about the time of the dinosaurs.

Read that one in detail. In fact: why don't you go ahead and click right here for a neeto 'printer friendly' version that you can then print and take down to your squadron.

Tell'em Dr. Drill sent you...

Dr. Drill

 

Caution: Dr. Drill isn't always one hundred percent serious. Please activate your Joke Detectors. And don't call us when you find yourself explaining to a membership termination board why you used a staple gun to keep a cadet's hands at his sides during "To The Rear, March". All we're going to say on your behalf is "Duh!"

And if you find yourself on the bad end of a serious counseling because you decided to go toe-to-toe with your squadron commander over the position of the guide during a squadron-in-mass formation or something similarly trivial, well, we're just going to point, laugh and call you names!

Dr. Drill welcomes comments and corrections. Nothing herein is to be construed as official policy unless quoted from an up-to-date regulation or manual and Dr. Drill is not to be used as a blunt instrument to reshape the pointy heads of your superiors. Dr. Drill has made an extensive study of the drill and knows some people who know some things, but he's not the Final Authority on what happens at your unit. That Final Authority is? That's right, kids! Your UNIT COMMANDER.