For those who served, it was a hell of a time. Veterans then and now, remember it with vivid details, memories, loves found and lost for some. Freedom surrendered so others leave free. Lives lost in battlefields and nightmares. Never to be forgotten and always remembered. It was almost as if in a dream. Earn freedom, live free.
Well said. Freedom is not Free. I think that was the name of a poem I read to my church last year while we remembered Veterans. If it's the one I read there was not a dry face in the church that day. It is the Soldiers that give the protesters the 'right' to protest. I remember that line.
I salute you with all my heart and patriotism, thank you and all the other brave Americans who have served and are still serving our great country. May universal peace be realized that one day none of you will ever be in harms way because of the hostilities caused by man's inability to resolve differences without war. until then may God continue to bless the United States of America. And by the way my son is fine and is a better person, having served.
Great to find a video of the "good old days" in green Class A's and "flying saucer" covers. I played Bass Drum, oboe, clarinet and Cor Anglais 1968-1971, minus a year in Vietnam deleting Cor Anglais and adding M-16, pick and shovel, Deuce and a Half, Jeep, typewriter, M-60 machine gun and fecal matter dehydration technologist. Served in 433rd and 36th Army Bands and the 4th Infantry Division (Fighting Fourth) HHC & Band DISCOM 1969-1970 in Vietnam. Thanks for keeping the memories alive. That must have been deafening to perform in a gymnasium!
Good for you, and I honor you for serving our country. One of my sons was in that graduating class, so I have a lot of thankful memories of that period. peace.
I played in the 19th Army Band back in 1980. I must have played National Emblem a thousand times at basic training graduations and parades! Thanks for the memory!
My dad did basic training at Ft Dix in the 70s And our family was stationed at Ft Dix in 81-89 My dad later retired at Ft Dix. I would like to thank a Military Veterans and Active duty personal for allowing me to live in the land of the free To all those who have lived and died for us. Thank you from the bottom of my heart and welcome home.
Was stationed at wonderful Ft. Dix from 1973 --1976 & worked mostly at the indoor pool as a life guard. Helped out with TV & Prodections. One day being very busy I forgot I still had on an officer's uniform ( We were doing videos on on & off post homes & I was playing the part of an officer pretending to just get at the post ect.) But anyway I still had the uniform on & folks were saluting me & I did back then looked down & freaked, dumb me had forgotten to change ! Ha, ha! I got changed pronto & never made 'that' mistake again. I was at Ft. Dix again in the mid 80s before moving on again to Ft. Ord & Germany & other places like Dessert Storm. The Army is to me a wonderful learning experience that I wouldn't have missed for the world.
Thanx for posting this video... I was the First Sergeant of the band in the video (19th Army Band), acting as the Bandmaster... It is being passed around to all of us that were in the band then.... thanx again for posting.... Hope your son is doing well after having served his country.... take care.... John Gerding, 1SG, retired
First SGT John Gerding, thank you "Top." I very much appreciate the career military now more than I did during my rather turbulent 2 years 9 months. I still have my last set of Class A greens and one set of light weight Jungle Fatigues from my tour in Vietnam. Hope you are doing well in retirement! Blessings.
Wow, that was just over 20 years ago, and I am the euphonium player in the back. It was either 1990 or 1991. Shortly after I left Ft. Dix, I went to Ft. Meade, MD, but I got to return to Ft. Dix to play the last basic training graduation ever held there. Thanks for posting this!
Being a former Band member of the 26TH Army Band Fort Wadsworth New York, I know first hand the positive impact the Bands had on our fellow soldiers, What has happened causes me great concern! So many of our bands do not even exist today...Talk about cut backs and negative impact on moral! Cheers to all you fine soldiers out there. Lets hope uncle Sam regains his senses..Great performance for this band and these young Army Troops..Bless you all!
Lynn Claughton, What I am so interested in is the loss of "surge" properly trained Bandsman provided. At Fort Irwin, we were supposed to assist the MP's in case someone attacked 35 miles north of Barstow ... On 9-11-2001 the 36th Army Band merged in with the MP's and provided security, internal security and more than doubled the available firepower. In Plieku, Vietnam, in 1969 we guarded the Tactical Operations Center (TOC). On Christmas Day 1969 we were out "raising moral" on Fire Base Beaver when the VC started setting up a mortar tube in broad daylight. We stowed the musical instruments and grabbed our M-16's. They spaced us between "real" infantry and artillery troops. I asked, "Why are we not opening fire?" The answer? "The Christmas Truce." Funny thing, the Viet Cong really didn't care about our MOS.
Did anyone know of a SSG Hearns (Drill Sergeant) or SGT Garcia (Drill as well) during the period of 1986-1989 Ft. Dix NJ? I went to basic training June 7th 1987 A Company, 4th Battalion, 26th INF Regiment 3D Basic Training Brigade. My name at that time was Pv2 Steven J. Page. I want to thank those two Drill Sergeants for helping me become a soldier. I'm SURE they remember me. I wasn't a star Trainee then. I served two Enlistments got out an E5 (buck Sergeant).
Thank you brother for your service. 💖 We might start off in a race alittle shaky but it's that we stick to it & finish the race as best as we can that counts.
This is "National Emblem" by E Bagley. It is a military band standard march used in just about every ceremony American military bands perform in. It should not be hard to find for purchase.
Stationed At Dix in 72 to 74. Good memories and some not so good memories Met a Sargent there fell in love and moved to Huntington WV. 44 years later we are still married Was married by the Mayor in Brownstown in his home.
I was in the weapons pool I was the one that help you clean the M60 if you wear part of that detail you have meet me, and that's what I looked like. out on the range. 1979 to 83 no weapon made it out on to the range unless I looked it over at Fort dix!
Good job !! My last job was ammo/explosives. I wanted to be in the Army band. Ha, ha, go figure. But it was a 'blast'. (Fun) 35 people started the training & only 3 graduated & I was very proud to be one of those 3. (55B) (55G) latter on.
Fort Dix 1985. Cpt P. Huber. Drill Sgts. SSG J. Lockear, Sgt. Roux. 4th Platoon Company D. 1st. Battalion; 3rd Basic Training Brigade. I remember much there. Thanks WP, for reminding me.
Reading others comments, I should have added that after Book camp at Fort Dix, I served in the 18th Army Band, and then the 215th Army NG band for 8 years.
The Drills used to have suger & water that they'd harden to look like glass, like the bottles they used in Hollywood, then they would break the bottle & pretend to eat glass.😁
@@JustThad Yes, he was in my Platoon. Night fire, and we had no idea what was going on when they shoved us all off the range. I was questioned by CID, because we shared a love for hot rods. Apparently, that made me close enough to him, to know why he did it. They also asked if I thought he was gay, which floored me, since all he talked about was his girl. I think, that because he couldn't keep up with the rest of us, and the Drills often singled him out for humiliation (made him dry shave in front of formation one morning), he just gave up on failure.
GARY WARREN, HAD A GREAT TIME IN THE COMPANY, I HAD THE HARD ASS DRILL SGT. BUT ENJOY'S IT, AND WAS THEIR CARLOS SANTOYO, WE SNUCK FOR VITAMIN C DROPS, RAN FAST, GOT WOKE UP A HELL OF ALOT. SPARKY?? HEAVY GUY SHCUTCHFIELD, WE LATER AT A.I.T. WENT TO D.C HAD A BLAST
Hi John. Yes, it's me. Have you been to the Great American Brass Band Festival? Its a pretty cool event. We (the Chicago Brass Band) have played there twice, and probably will go back sometime in the next several years. Hope you are enjoying your retirement! I'm still in the WI Guard Band, but will probably be getting out in a couple years. In the civilian world I teach 4-8 grade band kids.
I was in the 19th AB in the 1970's. The 19th was decommissioned about 1992 or 1993, so I'm not sure if this is the 19th or another AB from a different base.
Brad, Is that you.... I just listened to your video from Danville a couple of years ago... great job... you know we just live about an hour away from there??? keep in touch... John
I graduated from Army basic training at fort dix in January 1989.....Winter time and its was cold !!!!
I know you posted this a long time ago, but I graduated in January 1989 also. What unit were you with? I was A-1-26.
For those who served, it was a hell of a time. Veterans then and now, remember it with vivid details, memories, loves found and lost for some. Freedom surrendered so others leave free. Lives lost in battlefields and nightmares. Never to be forgotten and always remembered. It was almost as if in a dream. Earn freedom, live free.
Well said. Freedom is not Free.
I think that was the name of a poem I read to my church last year while we remembered Veterans.
If it's the one I read there was not a dry face in the church that day. It is the Soldiers that give the protesters the 'right' to protest. I remember that line.
I salute you with all my heart and patriotism, thank you and all the other brave Americans who have served and are still serving our great country. May universal peace be realized that one day none of you will ever be in harms way because of the hostilities caused by man's inability to resolve differences without war. until then may God continue to bless the United States of America. And by the way my son is fine and is a better person, having served.
Great to find a video of the "good old days" in green Class A's and "flying saucer" covers. I played Bass Drum, oboe, clarinet and Cor Anglais 1968-1971, minus a year in Vietnam deleting Cor Anglais and adding M-16, pick and shovel, Deuce and a Half, Jeep, typewriter, M-60 machine gun and fecal matter dehydration technologist. Served in 433rd and 36th Army Bands and the 4th Infantry Division (Fighting Fourth) HHC & Band DISCOM 1969-1970 in Vietnam. Thanks for keeping the memories alive. That must have been deafening to perform in a gymnasium!
Thank you for your service.
Good for you, and I honor you for serving our country. One of my sons was in that graduating class, so I have a lot of thankful memories of that period. peace.
I played in the 19th Army Band back in 1980. I must have played National Emblem a thousand times at basic training graduations and parades! Thanks for the memory!
My dad did basic training at Ft Dix in the 70s
And our family was stationed at Ft Dix in 81-89
My dad later retired at Ft Dix.
I would like to thank a Military Veterans and Active duty personal for allowing me to live in the land of the free
To all those who have lived and died for us. Thank you from the bottom of my heart and welcome home.
Was stationed at wonderful
Ft. Dix from 1973 --1976 & worked mostly at the indoor pool as a life guard. Helped out with TV & Prodections. One day being very busy I forgot I still had on an officer's uniform
( We were doing videos on on & off post homes & I was playing the part of an officer pretending to just get at the post ect.)
But anyway I still had the uniform on & folks were saluting me & I did back then looked down & freaked, dumb me had forgotten to change ! Ha, ha! I got changed pronto & never made 'that' mistake again.
I was at Ft. Dix again in the mid 80s before moving on again to Ft. Ord & Germany & other places like Dessert Storm.
The Army is to me a wonderful learning experience that I wouldn't have missed for the world.
Thanx for posting this video... I was the First Sergeant of the band in the video (19th Army Band), acting as the Bandmaster... It is being passed around to all of us that were in the band then.... thanx again for posting.... Hope your son is doing well after having served his country.... take care....
John Gerding, 1SG, retired
First SGT John Gerding, thank you "Top." I very much appreciate the career military now more than I did during my rather turbulent 2 years 9 months. I still have my last set of Class A greens and one set of light weight Jungle Fatigues from my tour in Vietnam. Hope you are doing well in retirement! Blessings.
Wow, that was just over 20 years ago, and I am the euphonium player in the back. It was either 1990 or 1991. Shortly after I left Ft. Dix, I went to Ft. Meade, MD, but I got to return to Ft. Dix to play the last basic training graduation ever held there. Thanks for posting this!
Thanks for serving and doing your part! I was in 1968-1971, with a year in Vietnam with the 4th ID HHC & Band DISCOM.
Being a former Band member of the 26TH Army Band Fort Wadsworth New York, I know first hand the positive impact the Bands had on our fellow soldiers, What has happened causes me great concern! So many of our bands do not even exist today...Talk about cut backs and negative impact on moral! Cheers to all you fine soldiers out there. Lets hope uncle Sam regains his senses..Great performance for this band and these young Army Troops..Bless you all!
Lynn Claughton, What I am so interested in is the loss of "surge" properly trained Bandsman provided. At Fort Irwin, we were supposed to assist the MP's in case someone attacked 35 miles north of Barstow ... On 9-11-2001 the 36th Army Band merged in with the MP's and provided security, internal security and more than doubled the available firepower. In Plieku, Vietnam, in 1969 we guarded the Tactical Operations Center (TOC). On Christmas Day 1969 we were out "raising moral" on Fire Base Beaver when the VC started setting up a mortar tube in broad daylight. We stowed the musical instruments and grabbed our M-16's. They spaced us between "real" infantry and artillery troops. I asked, "Why are we not opening fire?" The answer? "The Christmas Truce." Funny thing, the Viet Cong really didn't care about our MOS.
Superb band!! The National Emblem played to perfection.
Did anyone know of a SSG Hearns (Drill Sergeant) or SGT Garcia (Drill as well) during the period of 1986-1989 Ft. Dix NJ? I went to basic training June 7th 1987 A Company, 4th Battalion, 26th INF Regiment 3D Basic Training Brigade. My name at that time was Pv2 Steven J. Page. I want to thank those two Drill Sergeants for helping me become a soldier. I'm SURE they remember me. I wasn't a star Trainee then. I served two Enlistments got out an E5 (buck Sergeant).
Thank you brother for your service. 💖 We might start off in a race alittle shaky but it's that we stick to it & finish the race as best as we can that counts.
@lclaughton ...thank you for your comment. Very well put, and may God bless the United States of America.
Basic training in JUNE 1976 through end of August. Alpha Company 4th Battalion 3rd Basic Training Brigade.
This is "National Emblem" by E Bagley. It is a military band standard march used in just about every ceremony American military bands perform in. It should not be hard to find for purchase.
Stationed
At Dix in 72 to 74. Good memories and some not so good memories Met a Sargent there fell in love and moved to Huntington WV. 44 years later we are still married Was married by the
Mayor in Brownstown in his home.
I was in the weapons pool I was the one that help you clean the M60 if you wear part of that detail you have meet me, and that's what I looked like. out on the range. 1979 to 83
no weapon made it out on to the range unless I looked it over at Fort dix!
Good job !! My last job was ammo/explosives. I wanted to be in the Army band. Ha, ha, go figure. But it was a 'blast'. (Fun)
35 people started the training & only 3 graduated & I was very proud to be one of those 3. (55B)
(55G) latter on.
Ah Boot camp at Ft. Dix. The memories A-1-5 (Summer of 1984)... SSG Taylor, I will never forget him. Does anyone remember Paragon Trail?
+Wp Muhammad -Echo 4-5....Sgt. Steven Darden. June-August 1984
Fort Dix 1985. Cpt P. Huber. Drill Sgts. SSG J. Lockear, Sgt. Roux. 4th Platoon Company D. 1st. Battalion; 3rd Basic Training Brigade. I remember much there. Thanks WP, for reminding me.
Reading others comments, I should have added that after Book camp at Fort Dix, I served in the 18th Army Band, and then the 215th Army NG band for 8 years.
Do you mean the trail to the ranges which ran from the end of the runway up a stony, muddy, mossy slippery stream bed?
Wp, D-5-3, winter of 83. Oh,... I remember the paragon trail, lol !!!
Drill SGT Garcia was my instructor in the fall of 86. Good times back then. I went on to serve ten years in aviation.
Took basic twice at Dix. 1956 and 1963. Both in 3d Training Regiment. Was a bit smarter the second time. I parked my car in Wrightstown.
Nice! I'm in the 78th Army Band, the reserve band currently stationed at Fort Dix, so it's great to see the 19th in action.
I believe this is the 19th Army Band which was stationed at Ft. Dix when the post still did Basic Training.
A-2-26, 1988. DSGT Moss. The man ate dirt every morning formation, just to freak us out.
The Drills used to have suger & water that they'd harden to look like glass, like the bottles they used in Hollywood, then they would break the bottle & pretend to eat glass.😁
E5 Sgt Bill Moss? We had a DS Moss in A-1-26 Nov88-Jan89. Same guy?
@@JustThad Had to be the same guy. His plan after the Army, was to Captain a charter fishing boat in Hawaii. I was 1st Platoon. Name's Medzyk
@@SLO-Ride You were there when Stansell killed himself at the range?
@@JustThad Yes, he was in my Platoon. Night fire, and we had no idea what was going on when they shoved us all off the range. I was questioned by CID, because we shared a love for hot rods. Apparently, that made me close enough to him, to know why he did it. They also asked if I thought he was gay, which floored me, since all he talked about was his girl.
I think, that because he couldn't keep up with the rest of us, and the Drills often singled him out for humiliation (made him dry shave in front of formation one morning), he just gave up on failure.
GARY WARREN, HAD A GREAT TIME IN THE COMPANY, I HAD THE HARD ASS DRILL SGT. BUT ENJOY'S IT, AND WAS THEIR CARLOS SANTOYO, WE SNUCK FOR VITAMIN C DROPS, RAN FAST, GOT WOKE UP A HELL OF ALOT. SPARKY?? HEAVY GUY SHCUTCHFIELD, WE LATER AT A.I.T. WENT TO D.C HAD A BLAST
The band does a fine job playing the National Emblem March.
D-5-3, winter of 1983.
Hi John. Yes, it's me. Have you been to the Great American Brass Band Festival? Its a pretty cool event. We (the Chicago Brass Band) have played there twice, and probably will go back sometime in the next several years. Hope you are enjoying your retirement! I'm still in the WI Guard Band, but will probably be getting out in a couple years. In the civilian world I teach 4-8 grade band kids.
1988 Charlie 226. DRILL SERGEANT's SSG BESON, SGT ROPER, SGT RODRIGUEZ
Basic and AIT.Good times
Can still remember that DORK Drill Sgt who did all the briefings our first Saturday,DS Link.
Did it in 85 lucky to have vets to train under cant find m7ch good ones to much any more.echo company 2 battilion .
I was in the 19th AB in the 1970's. The 19th was decommissioned about 1992 or 1993, so I'm not sure if this is the 19th or another AB from a different base.
Ces marches qui font du bien a entendre. SUPER
Basic training Ft. Dix July 1983 E-4-3
Jim, I was winter of 83, D-5-3.
Our basic graduation was on 17 Mar88.D/4/39
Wow. Charlie company, 4-39. Grad 19 feb 88. Remember watching u guys get smoked, just like us. Good times!
@@ericjackson7282 Y’all had that psycho senior Drill SGT (Death Master!).Called everyone knucklehead.
@@bigroy38 He told me he was gonna body slam me all over Fort Dix!
I did my basic training at Fort Dix 1984
Brad, Is that you.... I just listened to your video from Danville a couple of years ago... great job... you know we just live about an hour away from there??? keep in touch... John
Wow I wonder if this was my graduation? 91 Feb
A 4/26 Dragons
what year is this ?
Why indoors??????????
There was a massive snow/ice storm.
Holy crap, a dead band. Those must have been the good old days when there were 3 times as many bands