These include military rank structure, uniforms, close order drill.
For our event, we choose close order drill, since that's most of what you do on an honor guard post.
Of all the skills normally associated with the military, close order drill was, perhaps, his company's worst.
Close order drill is an important factor in recruit training, and begins from their first formation on the yellow footprints.
The unit was instructed in close order drill and ordinary post duties.
After a few hours of close order drill, they were obeying his commands without hesitation.
They began with close order drill, then started making night marches with full field equipment.
He was physically sound, able to do his work, perform close order drill, etc., "very well."
I suggested to him that maybe just maybe it was time for his guys to start training on something other than close order drill.
They were stomping around in the mud, doing close order drill.