Cadets from the Military Police Training Center’s 104-4 intake marched in a parade drill at their training graduation ceremony at the beginning of January, but because they were not well coordinated, they marched out of step, causing people to complain that quality of today’s military police is really going downhill.
A video under the title of “military police out of step in their training graduation march-past” has been making the rounds on the Internet. The Military Police Command said that it would look into the case. Compared with the tightly coordinated footwork of Korean idol pop groups’ dance routines, Taiwan’s military police appear inadequately trained. Lyricist Hsu Chang-te posted a comment on Facebook mocking the cadets. “The Ministry of Defense should invite Girl’s Generation to train the military police and show them how to get in step,” he said. A lot of Internet users gave Hsu’s remarks the thumbs-up, but some netizens thought otherwise.
Some people agreed with Hsu, posting comments such as: “It was a bit shabby,” “If they haven’t gone through rigorous training, it would be better to stay off the parade ground” and “It must be because you can’t push soldiers too hard these days.” But some netizens had other opinions, such as “Knowing how to fight is more important than keeping in step” and “Only communist and totalitarian states need this kind of performing army.”
Photo from the Internet
照片取自網路
(Liberty Times, translated by Julian Clegg)
憲兵訓練中心第一○四-四梯新兵一月初在結訓典禮中進行閱兵操演,因為默契不足,導致步伐凌亂,讓人大嘆憲兵素質退步。
Photo from the Girls’ Generation Facebook page
照片取自少女時代臉書
網路流傳「憲兵結訓操演分列行進腳步凌亂」影片,憲兵指揮部表示會對此案進行檢討。相較於韓國偶像團體在跳舞時步伐整齊劃一,台灣憲兵訓練明顯不足。作詞人許常德在臉書上發文嘲諷說,「國防部該請少女時代來訓練憲兵如何整齊」,不少網友對此表達贊同,但也有網友有不一樣的見解。
有網友贊同地表示,「有落漆!」「沒有經過嚴格的訓練寧可不要上場」、「是現在的兵都操不得吧 」。但也有網友認為,「會打仗比踢正步重要」、「共產極權國家才需要這種表演式的軍隊」。
(自由時報綜合報導)
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