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US Military never really trained for these types of dog and pony shows (discuss.online)
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[-] VegOwOtenks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I think this is what they are referring to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broughton_Suspension_Bridge.

TL;DR: The bridge collapsed because soldiers marching on it created force they hadn't anticipated, soldiers breaking step supposedly don't have as much of an impact.

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