Drill commands

[1][2][3] Drill commands are usually heard in major events involving service personnel, reservists and veterans of a country's armed forces, and by extension, public security services and youth uniformed organizations.

United States Armed Forces: Commonwealth of Nations The 18th-century musket, as typified by the brown Bess, was loaded and fired in the following way: Cavalry drill had the purpose of training cavalrymen and their horses to work together during a battle.

It survives to this day[update], albeit in a much-diminished form, in the modern sporting discipline of dressage.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police's Musical Ride gives an inkling of what massed cavalry drill at speed would have looked like.

Other tasks may be broken down into drills; for example, weapons maintenance in the British army used the rhythmic "naming of parts" as a memory aid in the teaching and learning of how to strip, clean, and reassemble the service rifle.