{"id":51071,"date":"2023-04-03T20:57:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T18:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=51071"},"modified":"2023-04-06T07:02:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T05:02:50","slug":"the-impressive-procession-step-of-the-spanish-marine-infantry-in-cartagena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/04\/03\/the-impressive-procession-step-of-the-spanish-marine-infantry-in-cartagena\/","title":{"rendered":"The impressive procession step of the Spanish Marine Infantry in Cartagena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In these days of Holy Week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/03\/30\/spain-the-processions-of-holy-week-2023-with-the-armed-forces-and-security-forces\/\">many military units escort processions in Spain<\/a>, astonishing the public with their martiality.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/03\/30\/spain-the-processions-of-holy-week-2023-with-the-armed-forces-and-security-forces\/\">Spain: the processions of Holy Week 2023 with the Armed Forces and Security Forces<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/02\/27\/spanish-marine-infantry-the-units-that-make-it-up-and-their-material-resources\/\">Spanish Marine Infantry: the units that make it up and their material resources<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>This afternoon I was watching a video from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@luseracanal2148\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luseracanal<\/a> in which <strong>the Music Unit and the picket line of the Tercio de Levante of the Spanish Marine Infantry<\/strong> that will escort the processions on Holy Tuesday (the procession of the transfer of the Apostles) and on Good Friday (the procession of the Holy Burial) in the city of <strong>Cartagena<\/strong>. In this video we see the Marines parading in a very martial way in the Military Arsenal of that city, one of the main bases of the Spanish Navy:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"REVISTA PIQUETE DE INFANTERIA DE MARINA ARSENAL DE CARTAGENA 2023\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SGy85ZIDE_k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I have seen the Armed Forces parade many times in Spain, but when I saw this video <strong>I was struck by the pace of the director of the Music Unit of the Tercio de Levante:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52791223980_8c64edd028_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A step that we also see in the picket line of the Tercio de Levante<\/strong> that marched behind the musicians:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52791281393_5cfbae94a0_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>This step is well known in countries like Germany and Chile<\/strong>, but in Spain it is very rare. As published by the newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laverdad.es\/semana-santa\/cartagena\/infanteria-marina-presenta-arriado-20230330094947-nt.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">La Verdad<\/a> last Thursday, <strong>what we see is a procession step<\/strong>, colloquially known in Spanish as the goose step. So far I have only seen the Tercio de Levante. I have not seen this step in any military unit in other processions in Spain. It is certainly impressive.<\/p>\n<p>From what I have been able to read, <strong>the Tercio de Levante has been using this step in Holy Week processions for years now<\/strong>. The newspaper La Verdad published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laverdad.es\/murcia\/v\/20140330\/cartagena\/conquistados-espiritu-piquetero-20140330.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a news in 2014<\/a> that already referred to it: <em>\"The objective of this escort is to parade for hours maintaining the characteristic slow parade step - raising their legs straight and stomping on the asphalt.\"<\/em> In these processions, and as is usual in other military units -especially those of the Navy-, <strong>the soldiers of the Tercio de Levante parade with M43 Coru\u00f1a rifles<\/strong>, derived from the famous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/01\/09\/a-review-of-the-kar-98k-rifle-one-of-the-most-famous-weapons-of-world-war-ii\/\">Kar 98K German<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In these days of Holy Week, many military units escort processions in Spain, astonishing the public with their martiality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12876,11545],"tags":[5050,18934,14891,17129,13095,12858,10669,6851],"class_list":["post-51071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excluir-de-anotaciones-eng","category-navy","tag-cartagena","tag-cartagena-military-arsenal","tag-holy-week","tag-m43-coruna-rifle","tag-region-de-murcia","tag-spanish-marine-infantry","tag-spanish-navy","tag-tercio-de-levante"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}