A Graph of Military Drill

Over the years, I’ve been asked by high school students for information on drill teams so that they could write speeches, research papers or something similar. This article is just another step in that direction. See also, What is a Military Drill Team? ,The Seven Parts of an Exhibition Drill Routine and Where’s the Power? plus many more.

This is a visual representation of where military drill began and its development into different branches.

At far left we have Regulation Drill, it then develops into Ceremonial Exhibition Drill and then Armed and Unarmed Exhibition Drill. Step and Stomp is next and then we see (Marching Band) Color Guard and Winter Guard. Notice the thin grey line of Regulation Drill at the bottom that is at the basis of each discipline. Where the grey Regulation Drill line stops is shortly after the beginning of color guard now that it is purely a dance-oriented discipline. So the graph ranges from pure Regulation Drill at left to pure dance at the right.

The lines of each discipline overlap since there really isn’t an absolute delineation between disciplines, their styles overlap somewhat.

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