Thank you trellius85....I happen to be in the Marine Corps. Band. Like they said, we are basic rifleman, we are just in the band. we get deployed and see combat just like the rest of the Marines.....
I participated in the half-time show in that stadium in 1965 with my Rubidoux High School band during a game between UCLA and Penn State. Our main feature piece was the theme song from "Hogan's Heroes" and I represented our school along with 13 other schools who played the drum sequence in the center of the field. It was a memorable experience. Three years later, I joined the Marines although they had no openings for bandsmen at the time so I was trained in radio communications.
Thanks for being the 1st to post this video. I can see myself in the band! Its the only video that my parents back home in texas can get to see of me...THANKS!
I remember this!!! i was in the band that was standing there watching them march past(in the white, black and gold uniforms)..Nacogdoches High School Dragon Band!!
Infinity, thanks for the info. I watch this video at least once a week and am always amazed by the perfection. You my American friends MUST be proud and respectful of these fine people. To serve AND entertain - Admirable!! Would love to know more.
Thank you so much for posting this video. I will have to share it with the rest of my family. My brother is in the band at MCAS Miramar & we couldn't be there to see him play.
although they could you know that they never would...these men all fight for the very freedom to say that and they have enough discipline and self respect to know not to...their playing does all the talking
Anyone worried about drill being 90% rather than 100% should know that half of that band (there are 4 different southern California bands combined here) had just gotten off of Iraq deployment in the second/third cycle so hadn't seen an instrument for 7 months. There was two days drumline practice with full band march, and one with the whole group playing. I'm the center snare (miramar hosted that year). Not every Marine Band has the same cadence or plays the same exact notes and rhythms with al
can someone here tell me the name of that marching song being played by the band? i first heard it in the movie--- a few good men,one of my favorite movie..thanks..(^-^)
You obviously don't know how things are done in the Marine Corps. So I will enlighten you. Every Marine is a basic infantry man, that includes everyone in this band. Well over half of these Marines have gone to war and seen combat. Just because they play instruments in their assigned job doesn't mean that when the time comes they don't put that horn down, pick up their rifle and take out the enemy. They are Marines that happen to play an instrument.
Actually, while these men have all gone through basic training and can fire a rifle as well as they can play an instrument, they haven't fought in a war yet. If they're ever sent off to war they won't be back to play.
Explain, why they won't be back? For the last 25 years, its been safer to be in the service, that to be a civilian the same age. Obviously that wasn't true in most wars we fought. Even in WWII, only one in 24 Marines, died in combat. Of course casualties were higher in infantry companies.
