07-04-2014, 01:03 PM
How many of the posters here are ex-military? Can they have some input on how they drilled using both voice commands and bugle calls. From my own military experience when we were drawn up in squads and divisions (I was in the Royal Navy) There was only one person who issued commands on the parade ground, and only one bugler who gave commands via the bugle. As Michael has rightly pointed out, if your drawn up on a battlefield you need as few as possible people issuing commands to the army as possible, by whatever format those commands are going to be issued by. And commands were also given by doing something with the standards although its not clear what those commands would have been as a standard really can only be dipped forward, back, left or right.
It was also clear that although the 'barbarian' tribes the Roman's fought also used verbal and musical commands in the manner of their Roman opponents, they must of been different because they did not cause confusion in the Roman ranks or those such as Ammianus who related battle accounts would surely have commented as such.
It was also clear that although the 'barbarian' tribes the Roman's fought also used verbal and musical commands in the manner of their Roman opponents, they must of been different because they did not cause confusion in the Roman ranks or those such as Ammianus who related battle accounts would surely have commented as such.
Adrian Coombs-Hoar
