merchant marines

The Officers You Salute and the Ones You Don’t

The US military has customs and courtesies. Wearing the service's uniform is an example of a custom. Rendering a hand…

8 months ago

Excellence is More Than “Clean”

"Clean" has many different definitions. In visual terms, however, we use it to mean, "having no needed corrections; easily readable". WHOA!…

9 years ago

Service Core Values and You

Each Service several years ago began codifying what the service stands for and what standards the service members needed to…

9 years ago

Drill Team Recruitment and Retention

Program Motivation/Incentives "A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon." Napoleon Bonapart This is the…

9 years ago

JROTC Recruitment and Fundraising

JROTC has not had the funding available to do many things over the last 2 years and I believe that…

9 years ago

The Military Cordon

Military cordons (two lines of people, armed or unarmed, facing each other) are used for arrival/departure ceremonies and awards banquets.…

9 years ago

Drill Team and Honor Guard Unit Training

In the military, we train. And we train, and train and train. We have major training scenarios (exercises) that involve…

9 years ago

Following the Army’s Drill Manual for all Services

FYI: this article is about JROTC colors in a competition only. Competitions don't reflect "real life" colors presentations. But competitions…

9 years ago

How to plan and coordinate a Color Guard Event

Today, DrillMaster has a guest author! Hello fellow drill mates, This article will talk about the steps to planning and…

9 years ago

This website uses cookies.