The only time I ever spent training for parades was graduation from Infantry training, and whenever we had a brigade or divisional level change of command held on the post parade field. At that level a change of commander usually occurred every two years or so. But never in the same year for each commander, so we could have divisional level on say even years and brigade level on odd years. Those were usually rehearsals one to two days at most prior to the ceremony. These were almost always done in the late summer Louisiana heat… I figure it was two to three days a year on average. But we never did public type parades marching down the Main Street of some town or city.
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