Why do soldiers still learn to march even though that it’s not practical in actual combat
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The word “uniform” is taken to the N-th degree in the military. All I can speak to personally is the Army, but consider the word, most people hear uniform and they think of something you wear. It is, and in most cases where a uniform is something you wear the idea is to remove individuality, not to be degrading necessarily, but that is its point. The Army goes further with uniform to making each person a soldier. Soldier A should function exactly the same as soldier B. The way you move, the way you think, the way you dress, each action/reaction; programmed predictable responses. In this way, if one soldier falls in combat another can be put in his/her place without jeopardizing mission effectiveness.
If you do a job that ONLY you can do all the enemy need do is kill/disable you and the mission fails. If each soldier is just another “cog” in a larger machine, then when one breaks you can just put another one in place. This level of training only works when EVERY aspect of life is trained to be uniform, or unison if you like, it’s why even PT (physical training) is done “in cadence” each repetition of each exercise is done to a count and done as a unit. Think “mission first” and a lot of the things the military does starts to make more sense.
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