The Marines landed in Novi and Livonia this week, in case you didn’t hear.
The U.S. Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon conducted an approximately 15-minute performance June 1 in front of a crowd at Novi s Fuerst Park, one stop on its nationwide tour.
The 24-man ensemble’s synchronized routine, in which they wield 10-pound M1 Garand rifles with fixed bayonets is performed without cadence or spoken orders and ends with a sequence demonstrating spins and tosses of their rifles.
“I was impressed with two things as a community, the respect we had in silence; and second, the discipline that was required to do all the moves in silent unison,” Karen Bulbuk, who attended with her two grandchildren, said. “It was beyond impressive.”