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It's used when in formation. You put your right arm up to see if you are far enough from the person to your right and if you are in-line with your row.

GunSlinger OIF II wrote:

never once in the near 8 years Ive served US Army have I heard the term "dress, left dress".  Dress, Right dress is used to correct the spacing between soldiers in formation for the purpose of uniformity.   Ive also heard "Dress it to the left"  or "dress it to the right"

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'Dress Right (Left) Dress' is used in the Marines and Navy.

What the hell is a Dress Left Dress?

Dress Right Dress is when each member of the squad (excluding the last man) snaps up his left arm, straight out.  Simultaneously, they snap their heads to the right to align with the previous member.  (Squad Leader does not snap his head Right, Last Man does though).  The goal is to have everyone at an arm's length apart.  This is often accompanied by "COVER and ALIGN", to get the squad vertically aligned as well



LM   X           X   SL

Becomes

           LM  X  X  SL

After a Dress Right Dress

I've never heard of dress left dress as well.

theit57 wrote:

Major.League.Infidel wrote:

What the hell is a Dress Left Dress?

Dress Right Dress is when each member of the squad (excluding the last man) snaps up his left arm, straight out.  Simultaneously, they snap their heads to the right to align with the previous member.  (Squad Leader does not snap his head Right, Last Man does though).  The goal is to have everyone at an arm's length apart.  This is often accompanied by "COVER and ALIGN", to get the squad vertically aligned as well



LM   X           X   SL

Becomes

           LM  X  X  SL

After a Dress Right Dress

thank you, but I know what dress right dress is, just not dress left dress

That's because no one knows what Dress Left Dress is.  It's not used.  I'm assuming it's if your squad is reversed, but I don't know why it would be anyway.  All I could see it doing is confusing a formation of Marines/Soldiers/Etc, because they haven't heard it either.

Major.League.Infidel wrote:

What the hell is a Dress Left Dress?

Dress Right Dress is when each member of the squad (excluding the last man) snaps up his left arm, straight out.  Simultaneously, they snap their heads to the right to align with the previous member.  (Squad Leader does not snap his head Right, Last Man does though).  The goal is to have everyone at an arm's length apart.  This is often accompanied by "COVER and ALIGN", to get the squad vertically aligned as well



LM   X           X   SL

Becomes

           LM  X  X  SL

After a Dress Right Dress

I can't think of a better way of explaining it than that.

In all my time in the Marine Corps, I never heard of Dress Left Dress.   

Last edited by killer21 (2008-01-12 17:55:12)

theit57 wrote:

paging all Jarheads/Devil Dogs/Hell Raisers/Marines, esp usmarine2005

Question:  How do you perform 'Dress, Left Dress' movement?

EDIT: after re-reading my post, I realized something wrong. its my bad.
EDIT 2:removed Right

Can't say I've done it in the army, but I've done this is marching band!  The leader would yell "dress left (or right) dress" and everyone would turn to  their left (or right).  This was to check if our lines were straight.  After we fixed them, the leader would shout "Dress center dress," and we would face forward again.

Edit:  We turn only our heads, not our whole bodies.

Last edited by Bert10099 (2008-01-12 18:35:48)

Left elbow up, look left, align yourself up.  Normally it's right though!