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A military cadence or cadence call is a call-and-response work song sung by military personnel while running or marching. They are counterparts of the military march . Military cadences often take their rhythms from the work being done, much like the sea shanty .
For instance, the U.S. Army requires that, the day following the death of a former President of the United States, every Army post must fire artillery "every half-hour, beginning at reveille and ending at retreat." [7] United States drum cadences are performed at a fast 120 beats per minute. Funeral cadences are performed at 112 beats per minutes.
Martial music or military music is a specific genre of music intended for use in military settings performed by professional soldiers called field musicians. Much of the military music has been composed to announce military events as with bugle calls and fanfares , or accompany marching formations with drum cadences , or mark special occasions ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 03:46, 9 January 2011: 52 s, 220 × 166 (2.37 MB): Benchill {{Information |Description={{en|1=Video clip of US Army soldiers calling cadence "Marching down the avenue", from: B-roll of Soldiers receiving Basic Combat Training at Fort Jackson, S.C. Scenes include Soldiers marching and standing in formation.
By the late 1980s, the "Napalm" cadence had been taught at training to all branches of the United States Armed Forces.Its verses delight in the application of superior US technology that rarely if ever actually hits the enemy: "the [singer] fiendishly narrates in first person one brutal scene after another: barbecued babies, burned orphans, and decapitated peasants in an almost cartoonlike ...
In the armed services, a military cadence call, also known as a Jody call, is a traditional call-and-response work song sung by military personnel while running or marching. As a sort of work song, military cadences take their rhythms from the work being done.
More than $7.1bn of US-funded military equipment was in the hands of the Afghan government when it fell to the Taliban, according to a Department of Defense (DOD) report published last year.
cadence is the more common term in the us, not jody [unsigned user] Google suggests that military cadence is vastly more common than jody call or cadence call. --Tysto 09:55, 6 January 2006 (UTC) No objection from me. I suspect that cadence generally is the most common term, but cadence is a disambiguation page. "Jody call" means this precisely ...