In this video clip, a row of as many as 50 Thai soldiers participate in a color guard and display the full meaning of the term “military precision”. The clip begins with the marching band playing “It’s a Small World” as the line of soldiers are marching in place.
All fifty soldiers are seen raising the same knee in uniformity, but that was just the warm up. Once the song changes to a tune from the Soundtrack of the Rocky film franchise, a group of soldiers jump up from the left side with each successive soldier performing the same motion within a split second. It created a wave-like ripple through their ranks.
Next, a soldier drops his rifle to his side and extends the barrel outward. In rapid succession, each soldier to his left follows suit. The motion they create was akin to dominos falling down, but what was more astounding is once the final soldier on the right was reached, he pulled back on the rifle creating a reverse rippling motion back across their ranks. The same motion was repeated, but this time with a left face countered by a right face to reverse the action.
One of the more amazing stunts they performed was to have roughly ten soldiers at a time assume varying degrees of crouching. This allowed them to form a U-shape which they manipulated to give the appearance of a suspension bridge gently bouncing in the air. Besides mastering the art of military precision, they also mastered the skill of optical illusion.