Taps. The most tear jerking piece I've ever learned. I'm serving now, in the US ARMY, and nothing has ever made me cry harder than having to play it for my grandfather that passed very recently.
Our nephew did the flag folding for my father in law. Even though he'd done it many times when he was on active duty in Hawaii, he later said it was the hardest thing he ever did.
I recently lost my Vietnam veteran uncle. He may not have served in Vietnam, but he damn sure didn’t miss out on answering the call to duty. On October 4, 2024, at the age of 73, my uncle answered his final call to duty.
As a 5yo I was told that we had to stop playing, stand at attention (every NCO’s child learns that early) and face the flag during retreat. As an assistant ward master I would hear the soft sounds of taps as we shut the lights off on the hospital patient wards. As the post duty officer I would stand in the chilling cold as reveille was played and the post cannon was fired. I’m am fortunate enough to live close enough to a AF base that I can hear the bugle calls. 70 years of good memories.
My children learned that between Retreat and To The Colors a cannon would fire. When we weren't on post we would whistle Retreat and the three would shout "KABOOM! before To The Colors.
The only calls that are still used today (at least from what I’ve seen so far in the Army) are First Call, Reveille, Chow, Retreat, To The Colors, and Taps. I was on a flag detail a few months ago (I was the cannon guy too!) and fired the blank between Retreat and To The Colors while the flag at division HQ was lowered and retired for the night. This was at Fort Drum.
those were the only ones i heard when i lived in leavenworth but then moving to carlisle barracks we now have like almost ten!!! first call at 6:25, reveille at 6:30, officers call at 8:30, mess call at 12:00, recall at 4:30, retreat / to the colors at 5:00, call to the quarters at 9:00, tattoo at 9:45 and of course taps at 11:00
@@mollycatherine3773 That's what was played at Schofield Barracks back in the mid 80 s...….I was not sure about tattoo until the end where there is a distinctive long drawn out bugle part...Wow ! the last time I heard that until a few minutes ago was 1985.....
I miss being as a soldier too. I worked in U.S army in south korea as a Korean augmentation soldier to the U.S army. And It was a one of most best moments in my life...
I was in Korea in 1985 for Team Spirt....I loved it there and I loved the Korean people....I cant remember the base I was on it was a small base that I know does not exist anymore....
Most of those bugle calls were piped by recording all over the billeting areas at Ft. Knox in 1969. One of the few pleasantries those days. Lying in bed I could hear taps. I remember hearing the guy in the other permanent party room in my barracks. Through the wall I heard him sobbing and praying. I wish I had talked to him. He was back from ‘Nam and I think he had marriage problems. I think of him when I hear Taps now.
I find bugle calls fascinating, because when I was in high school, I played trombone, and a trumpet player let me try his trumpet and explained that you can do bugle calls on any brass instrument if you can play any other one. When I was in summer camp, they would play "To The Colors" at each morning assembly while they would raise the flag.
I always feel bad for the guys.That never served.They missed out on a lot and I've met some of them.Who told me so that they wish they had done at least one enlistment.So lucky I served
The most popular 3 or 4 of these were on a LP record at 197 Inf brigade HQ -- Kelly Hill area of Ft Benning GA. On rare occasions my motor Sgt (SFC wells) came down on brigade CQ and the mechanics in his section (I was one of them) would be his orderlies for the day and that night. I remember watching the clock in the office and putting the needle on the record at the right times with a corded microphone held near the speaker of the record player. for broadcast across the PA system on Kelly Hill. Late 1980s. Good times !
and many many times, of course, being out and about in battery, battalion or brigade common areas or in the motor pool or PX or down on main post, etc and hearing these calls. standing at attention and facing the sound of the music.
Never heard the actual daily sequence. Pretty cool. I was a US Army trumpet player and had to learn almost all of these in the First two weeks at the US Navy School of Music at Little Creek Amphibious Base in Norfolk, Virginia (Army, Navy & Marines all went to the same school of music). Bugle Calls are some of the hardest things you'll ever learn to play on a trumpet.
My favorite call was "Retreat". As a child on Hamilton AFB in the 50's, Mother would stop the car when it started and we all got out and stood facing the flag, later as a trainee at Ft Ord our company would stand at attention where ever we were or what we were doing and face in the direction the sergeants pointed, and once while on a 3 day pass, stood retreat in uniform at Disneyland. Never heard any bugle calls once I got to my permanent duty station in Schweinfurt. Missed them.
6 years ago on Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base, i remember waking up every morning before the sun to first call, revillie, mess call, and taps at night time, i actually kinda miss it now
I was in college marching band. Today I learned thanks to this video that "Eat 'em up" is the US Army Meal Call, and it's meant to insinuate that the opposing football team is a meal and that it's time to eat 'em up.
@@ShastaforArt they maybe different but are usually within the same hour (ex. Retreat and To the colors may be played at 1700 in one base and 1730 in another)
0:03 When I was younger I spent a lot of days at the Del Mar horsetrack. If you heard this it meant the gate and horses were coming out for the next race.
I used to live on Ft. Bragg and I'll tell you that there are great people and awful people. but everyday they'd play this. I miss hearing it the revile then they'd fire a cannon at the flag pole. I'd kill to live in Ft. Bragg again
I understand what you mean. For whatever reasons, the military and its ceremonies (and its music) is quite appealing even though you experience a lot of s... there. Cheers, H
If you have served with the 82nd Airborne Division well done, mate. Without any doubt it is a formidable unit. If it is the best airborne infantry in the world I do not know. There are other top regiments in other countries. Anyway, the 82nd Airborne Division is definitely one of the best units you can find. Cheers, H
Then it is still time to join the military. Even though I am not in the position to do so let me give you some advice: I definitely think serving your country as a soldier is a very honourable and the right thing to do. However, choose carefully as a military career is not for everyone. But if you decide for the army or any other service you should go "all in"; you will probably find mates for life and learn a lot about yourself and the human nature.
I was in the Army from August 02, 1965, through April 10, 1969. From Memorial Day weekend, 1966 through November 03, 1966, when I was commissioned, I was in the Signal Corps Officer Candidate School at Fort Gordon, GA. Our day was controlled, or guided, by bugle calls. It was quite an experience. If you happened to pull Duty Officer at night for the School you were responsible for playing the appropriate calls, from a record, at the correct time. They were broadcast over speakers throughout the area.
I always looked forward to tattoo in basic and it wasn't unusual to already be asleep by taps. At the other extreme, at the first note of reveille in the morning we launched out of the racks like we were spring loaded. It wasn't unusual to already have one leg in my fatigue pants before I woke up. You didn't want to be one of the last outside in formation for morning PT.
Initially for fun, I recorded “pay all” on a cassette at my private practice, then hit the intercom to let the girls know that their paychecks were ready. Mystified at first, the girls quickly caught on and became a favorite in the office. Fun when patients were there and the girls would tell the story of Dr. J’s exploits ‘back in the day’. Long since retired but I miss ‘em.
I served 1984 to 1985 Schofield Barracks HI...…….we had the majority of these bugle calls.....what made the 25th a special post is that it is an old post with not a lot of land so basically all the units are roughly all together....just had a real safe/homey feel to it as opposed to a base with more land where the units are spread more apart.....I know I have not heard Tattoo since 1985 until a few minutes ago......Wow I am 19 again almost.....
At my summer camp they wake us up by reveille then first call then assembly, then “to the colors” then mess call, the drill call then first call then drill call then first call then drill call then first call, then mess call then first call then drill call then first call then drill call then first call then drill call then first call then assembly then “to the colors” then mess call then later before bed taps
I go to a JROTC Military Academy and only a few of these are heard throughout the day and it makes sense now. Reveille plays during morning formation, Assembly is the tardy bell, and Mess Call is played before forming up and marching to lunch at the nearby high school
Taps taps, lights out. Maintain silence about the decks. Hold all trash and garbage on station. The smoking lamp is extinguished in all authorized spaces. Now taps. I miss hearing the attention bugle call and the carry-on, before and after every retreat bugle call. This August 2022, it will be 38 years since the first night of waking up in boot camp.
Me too brother! Those were some very lean good years. I’m so proud of my brothers on active duty in today’s military. I would redo it over in a heart beat!!!!!!
M AD---I know exactly what you mean. If there were a whole lot of troops out there on the parade field, that poor adjutant was just about doing a ballet toe dance to get across the ground fast enough to be in place. We always had a good laugh at that one!
@@peterharrison5833 change of command, who ever is in color guard or adjutant calling "bring your unites to attention and present arms." 🙄 He hasn't to take those long steps 😜 especially if the installation has a CG's change of command 😱
So I was at Ft Lee Va in1994 and assembly was announced over the loudspeaker 3 times a day. At Ft. Irwin Ca at 1800 Mess or chow was playing but also the beginning of tattoo but only once 🤔 so does that imply no alcohol served or Alcohol consumption is not allowed after 1800?
I was stationed at Scofield Barracks In Hawaii 84/85 as a teenager...Wow this brings back memories.....it is funny after you had been there for a while you really did know what time it was when you heard the bugle calls....none of us junior enlisted guys wore watches back then and of course no phones...some of the best years of my life....the only mistake I made is that my 1st Sgt wanted me to extend a year and a half in Hawaii and I did not because I was going to University and got out after my 2 year enlistment...dummy....I never finished college and that extra active duty would have helped a lot with my reserve pension, but the big mistake would have been extra time in Hawaii...Oh Well....
In Fort Mead, they play To The Colors (Monday And Thursday Morning 6.30 A.M. On Friday, To The Colors was played when the flag was lowered 3:40 Retreat - 5 P.M. 3:15 Revelle plays only On Friday Morning - 6.30 A.M. 0:10
I only heard a very few of these. I might have heard tattoo for basic only. Adjutant call only at parade. And no Taps although we did have one of those lost roll calls. Otherwise Reveille, Retreat and To the Colors were the every day calls.
And unless my memory is faulty, the lyrics go"Dr. Jones says, Dr. Jones says, come and get your quin, quin, quin, quinine, come and get your quinine, q-u-i-n-i-n-e!"
The military is an honorable profession. My whole family has been there...antecedent was commander of the Constitution, but we all went army and now air force
Negative, reveille is when the flag is raised for the US Army. Retreat is played right before to the colors when the flag is lowered; it was confusing when my unit trained on a Marine base, haha
In my understanding, retreat is played to signal the end of the official day, and to alert people that the flag is about to be lowered. To the color(s) is typically played during the actual lowering and raising of the flag, and also serves as a substitute for the nat'l anthem.
I already play the trumpet, and I'm Working on my bugling merit badge. I thought it would be easy, but since the had to learn to double tonge. NOT EASY
I earned the bugling merit badge about 50 years ago. I was first chair trumpet in high school band so it was easy enough. The band director was my merit badge counselor for this one. Actually used it when I worked on summer camp staff and played for morning and evening flag ceremonies. Good luck!
Taps. The most tear jerking piece I've ever learned. I'm serving now, in the US ARMY, and nothing has ever made me cry harder than having to play it for my grandfather that passed very recently.
Our nephew did the flag folding for my father in law. Even though he'd done it many times when he was on active duty in Hawaii, he later said it was the hardest thing he ever did.
Thank you for your service, I am very sorry for your loss 🫡
I recently lost my Vietnam veteran uncle. He may not have served in Vietnam, but he damn sure didn’t miss out on answering the call to duty. On October 4, 2024, at the age of 73, my uncle answered his final call to duty.
As a 5yo I was told that we had to stop playing, stand at attention (every NCO’s child learns that early) and face the flag during retreat. As an assistant ward master I would hear the soft sounds of taps as we shut the lights off on the hospital patient wards. As the post duty officer I would stand in the chilling cold as reveille was played and the post cannon was fired. I’m am fortunate enough to live close enough to a AF base that I can hear the bugle calls. 70 years of good memories.
You'll get a laugh from this, then: ua-cam.com/video/QD9QAAEfQEA/v-deo.html
Not just NCO kids, every officer’s kid was taught the same thing.
My children learned that between Retreat and To The Colors a cannon would fire. When we weren't on post we would whistle Retreat and the three would shout "KABOOM! before To The Colors.
The only calls that are still used today (at least from what I’ve seen so far in the Army) are First Call, Reveille, Chow, Retreat, To The Colors, and Taps. I was on a flag detail a few months ago (I was the cannon guy too!) and fired the blank between Retreat and To The Colors while the flag at division HQ was lowered and retired for the night. This was at Fort Drum.
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those were the only ones i heard when i lived in leavenworth but then moving to carlisle barracks we now have like almost ten!!! first call at 6:25, reveille at 6:30, officers call at 8:30, mess call at 12:00, recall at 4:30, retreat / to the colors at 5:00, call to the quarters at 9:00, tattoo at 9:45 and of course taps at 11:00
@@mollycatherine3773 That's what was played at Schofield Barracks back in the mid 80 s...….I was not sure about tattoo until the end where there is a distinctive long drawn out bugle part...Wow ! the last time I heard that until a few minutes ago was 1985.....
Just heard Tattoo about ten seconds ago
Church call on Sunday
I miss being as a soldier too. I worked in U.S army in south korea as a Korean augmentation soldier to the U.S army. And It was a one of most best moments in my life...
수고했어....KATUSA?👍
I was in Korea in 1985 for Team Spirt....I loved it there and I loved the Korean people....I cant remember the base I was on it was a small base that I know does not exist anymore....
Most of those bugle calls were piped by recording all over the billeting areas at Ft. Knox in 1969. One of the few pleasantries those days. Lying in bed I could hear taps. I remember hearing the guy in the other permanent party room in my barracks. Through the wall I heard him sobbing and praying. I wish I had talked to him. He was back from ‘Nam and I think he had marriage problems. I think of him when I hear Taps now.
41 years later, revelliee still wakes me up.
Revelliee never woke me up when I was in
@@starter47990You ever thought because you were in formation at 06:30 saluting the flag?
@@BuffaloGill I thought I was sleep walking. "How the hell did I end up here" 🤣🤣
@@starter47990 too easy.
Excellent bugler. clear bright precise. Nice to hear.
Thanks for the fade-out on the last note of each call.
Takes me back to pulling duty overnight at Ft. Knox and Ft. Irwin. I loved standing outside HQ and listening to Tattoo, Call to Quarters and Taps.
I find bugle calls fascinating, because when I was in high school, I played trombone, and a trumpet player let me try his trumpet and explained that you can do bugle calls on any brass instrument if you can play any other one. When I was in summer camp, they would play "To The Colors" at each morning assembly while they would raise the flag.
Love hearing these throughout the day
I always feel bad for the guys.That never served.They missed out on a lot and I've met some of them.Who told me so that they wish they had done at least one enlistment.So lucky I served
The most popular 3 or 4 of these were on a LP record at 197 Inf brigade HQ -- Kelly Hill area of Ft Benning GA. On rare occasions my motor Sgt (SFC wells) came down on brigade CQ and the mechanics in his section (I was one of them) would be his orderlies for the day and that night. I remember watching the clock in the office and putting the needle on the record at the right times with a corded microphone held near the speaker of the record player. for broadcast across the PA system on Kelly Hill. Late 1980s. Good times !
and many many times, of course, being out and about in battery, battalion or brigade common areas or in the motor pool or PX or down on main post, etc and hearing these calls. standing at attention and facing the sound of the music.
Never heard the actual daily sequence. Pretty cool.
I was a US Army trumpet player and had to learn almost all of these in the First two weeks at the
US Navy School of Music at Little Creek Amphibious Base in Norfolk, Virginia
(Army, Navy & Marines all went to the same school of music).
Bugle Calls are some of the hardest things you'll ever learn to play on a trumpet.
Take it up an octave just to workout lolz. I still haven't recovered.
My favorite call was "Retreat". As a child on Hamilton AFB in the 50's, Mother would stop the car when it started and we all got out and stood facing the flag, later as a trainee at Ft Ord our company would stand at attention where ever we were or what we were doing and face in the direction the sergeants pointed, and once while on a 3 day pass, stood retreat in uniform at Disneyland. Never heard any bugle calls once I got to my permanent duty station in Schweinfurt. Missed them.
Ah, another service member who got their start in khaki diapers. 😊
During training I loved retreat and to the colors because it meant I made it through another day 🤧
I was at Ft. Sill during the summer of 1979. I remember 'Retreat', then a cannon shot, then "To the Colors" played at 1700.
I have been out of the army for 35 years, I still cut my hair to army regs and have bugle calls set to alarms on my cell phone.
why tho
Mike Moholland thank you for your service🇺🇸🇺🇸✊✊💪🏻💪🏻
Brainwashing can be very powerful
Hell no
How sad
So, ringtones before ringtones?
When my wife calls me - "To Arms". I call her - "Sargent Call".
"We like it! We love it! We want more of it! More PT, Drill Sergeant! More PT!!!
Make it hurt, Drill Sergeant, make it hurt! HOOAH!!!
Work as a custodian at a school. Been raising and lowering the glass for a week now, and put on a couple of calls for it. Makes me feel good at least
6 years ago on Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base, i remember waking up every morning before the sun to first call, revillie, mess call, and taps at night time, i actually kinda miss it now
I was in college marching band. Today I learned thanks to this video that "Eat 'em up" is the US Army Meal Call, and it's meant to insinuate that the opposing football team is a meal and that it's time to eat 'em up.
This video helped me understand how the bugle calls work. Thanks!
Is schedule time different in each state?
@@ShastaforArt they maybe different but are usually within the same hour (ex. Retreat and To the colors may be played at 1700 in one base and 1730 in another)
0:03 When I was younger I spent a lot of days at the Del Mar horsetrack. If you heard this it meant the gate and horses were coming out for the next race.
Yes, First Call (Prepare To Assemble) is the same as Post Call, or First Post.
I used to live on Ft. Bragg and I'll tell you that there are great people and awful people. but everyday they'd play this. I miss hearing it the revile then they'd fire a cannon at the flag pole. I'd kill to live in Ft. Bragg again
I understand what you mean. For whatever reasons, the military and its ceremonies (and its music) is quite appealing even though you experience a lot of s... there. Cheers, H
Anthems & Marches I'm telling you the best airborne infantry unit is the 82nd airborne falcons.
If you have served with the 82nd Airborne Division well done, mate. Without any doubt it is a formidable unit. If it is the best airborne infantry in the world I do not know. There are other top regiments in other countries. Anyway, the 82nd Airborne Division is definitely one of the best units you can find. Cheers, H
Anthems & Marches nah my dad was the brigade commander for the entire falcons. I would love to have been in the 82nd but it's not too late
Then it is still time to join the military. Even though I am not in the position to do so let me give you some advice: I definitely think serving your country as a soldier is a very honourable and the right thing to do. However, choose carefully as a military career is not for everyone. But if you decide for the army or any other service you should go "all in"; you will probably find mates for life and learn a lot about yourself and the human nature.
Call to colors! Thats what it is! Ive had that in my head for days and couldn’t remember which one it was! TY...and at ease!
Ty
Great memories
Staying at an Air Force Base and had to google this to remember
Every night right outside my window was the sounds of TAPS to end the day at Ft Ritchie. Those were the salad days.
I was in the Army from August 02, 1965, through April 10, 1969. From Memorial Day weekend, 1966 through November 03, 1966, when I was commissioned, I was in the Signal Corps Officer Candidate School at Fort Gordon, GA. Our day was controlled, or guided, by bugle calls. It was quite an experience. If you happened to pull Duty Officer at night for the School you were responsible for playing the appropriate calls, from a record, at the correct time. They were broadcast over speakers throughout the area.
3 years, 23 days in service. U.S. Army
The only calls I ever heard were Reveille, Retreat, To The Colors, and Taps once.
Never heard the rest
Huh, i went to a militaty institute and they played all of these, every weekday
Oddly enough one of the first boy scout camps I went to as a kid used some of these.
Same here for the most part
Though I’ve only been in the army for a few months now.
My grandfather was a bugler in Ww2 but never talked about it until I got a trumpet
I always looked forward to tattoo in basic and it wasn't unusual to already be asleep by taps. At the other extreme, at the first note of reveille in the morning we launched out of the racks like we were spring loaded. It wasn't unusual to already have one leg in my fatigue pants before I woke up. You didn't want to be one of the last outside in formation for morning PT.
A cavalry regimental bugler had to know 84 bugle calls instantly in the late 19th century.
Thank you for playing the reveille and other calls. Appreciate this. Love 💘 HAZEL
Initially for fun, I recorded “pay all” on a cassette at my private practice, then hit the intercom to let the girls know that their paychecks were ready. Mystified at first, the girls quickly caught on and became a favorite in the office. Fun when patients were there and the girls would tell the story of Dr. J’s exploits ‘back in the day’. Long since retired but I miss ‘em.
Tearjerker, thanks for posting
0:04 AKA call to post. Commonly played at horse racing tracks to signal jockeys to saddle up and make their way to the starting gate
Retreat .. the biggest fuck when you're almost in the barracks and this plays over the post 6' from the entrance
If you're a shit bag.
I was fortunate enough to be stationed on posts where in between "To The Colors" and "Retreat" a cannon salute sounded!
Ha. Only wish that mess food was what people ate!!
We had a saying back then regarding the food: The hunger drives it in - the disgust drives it down. Cheers, H
I hate it when 3 squares a day is shrimp, don't you?
lol
@@tangogrrlskrimps
In my 26 year army career I believe the one military base that played all of them was Fort Lee, VA
I served 1984 to 1985 Schofield Barracks HI...…….we had the majority of these bugle calls.....what made the 25th a special post is that it is an old post with not a lot of land so basically all the units are roughly all together....just had a real safe/homey feel to it as opposed to a base with more land where the units are spread more apart.....I know I have not heard Tattoo since 1985 until a few minutes ago......Wow I am 19 again almost.....
When i was a kid i always knew i was fucked if i wasnt home before the time taps was played across the base
Got your start in khaki diapers, huh? 😊
I never heard Attention in the Army.
Mess Call will always be may favorite call.
At my summer camp they wake us up by reveille then first call then assembly, then “to the colors” then mess call, the drill call then first call then drill call then first call then drill call then first call, then mess call then first call then drill call then first call then drill call then first call then drill call then first call then assembly then “to the colors” then mess call then later before bed taps
It always brings me to tears when I hear the bugle call
I go to a JROTC Military Academy and only a few of these are heard throughout the day and it makes sense now. Reveille plays during morning formation, Assembly is the tardy bell, and Mess Call is played before forming up and marching to lunch at the nearby high school
I love reveille, first call and mess call
Astra same!!! i have a lot of memories with them too as i hear them every day
Taps taps, lights out. Maintain silence about the decks. Hold all trash and garbage on station. The smoking lamp is extinguished in all authorized spaces. Now taps.
I miss hearing the attention bugle call and the carry-on, before and after every retreat bugle call.
This August 2022, it will be 38 years since the first night of waking up in boot camp.
I miss being a soldier.
I understand what you mean. It is quite a change from military life to civilian. Cheers, H
Me too brother! Those were some very lean good years. I’m so proud of my brothers on active duty in today’s military. I would redo it over in a heart beat!!!!!!
Me too
Me too. 83-86. Ft. Lewis Wa.
I miss being a Marine
Thanks for the compilation. I never knew how many calls were used at the horse track. Pretty cool that they transferred that to horse racing.
We always enjoyed Adjutants Call because it initiated the most hilarious "march" worthy of Monty Python's Ministry of Silly Walks.
M AD---I know exactly what you mean. If there were a whole lot of troops out there on the parade field, that poor adjutant was just about doing a ballet toe dance to get across the ground fast enough to be in place. We always had a good laugh at that one!
@@peterharrison5833 change of command, who ever is in color guard or adjutant calling "bring your unites to attention and present arms." 🙄 He hasn't to take those long steps 😜 especially if the installation has a CG's change of command 😱
So I was at Ft Lee Va in1994 and assembly was announced over the loudspeaker 3 times a day. At Ft. Irwin Ca at 1800 Mess or chow was playing but also the beginning of tattoo but only once 🤔 so does that imply no alcohol served or Alcohol consumption is not allowed after 1800?
Some of these I have never heard before.
1:39 Hullaballoo! Caneck! Caneck!
Whoop!
I was stationed at Scofield Barracks In Hawaii 84/85 as a teenager...Wow this brings back memories.....it is funny after you had been there for a while you really did know what time it was when you heard the bugle calls....none of us junior enlisted guys wore watches back then and of course no phones...some of the best years of my life....the only mistake I made is that my 1st Sgt wanted me to extend a year and a half in Hawaii and I did not because I was going to University and got out after my 2 year enlistment...dummy....I never finished college and that extra active duty would have helped a lot with my reserve pension, but the big mistake would have been extra time in Hawaii...Oh Well....
These are the words of an Eagle Scout.
I really like the military bugle calls. My favorite, is the mess call, LOL!
Fatass, me too 🤣🤣🤣🤣
In Fort Mead, they play To The Colors (Monday And Thursday Morning 6.30 A.M. On Friday, To The Colors was played when the flag was lowered 3:40 Retreat - 5 P.M. 3:15 Revelle plays only On Friday Morning - 6.30 A.M. 0:10
I have never been assigned to any post that used all of these bugle calls.
Mess call sounds so celebratory.
You played some of the same ones twice
Such as?
I only heard a very few of these. I might have heard tattoo for basic only. Adjutant call only at parade. And no Taps although we did have one of those lost roll calls. Otherwise Reveille, Retreat and To the Colors were the every day calls.
The first call is my alarm ringtone lol
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There's a bugle call in the movie Apolcalypse Now at 35.43 minutes in, and I can't find out what it means!
So well played!
Are these calls the same for all branches
Never knew there was a sick call bugle.
And unless my memory is faulty, the lyrics go"Dr. Jones says, Dr. Jones says, come and get your quin, quin, quin, quinine, come and get your quinine, q-u-i-n-i-n-e!"
Woke up my parents with this
Hazel 💘 Our family was represented on each branch of the Military..My prayers are with them...Love Hazel
00:46 Ahhh....good old Fort Benning. Really brings the memories back. lol
Thank you so much! I'm making a Western song, and need some inspiration for myself and my trumpet player.
Who else is watching this to learn the calls, and learn which ones they want to play?
The military is an honorable profession. My whole family has been there...antecedent was commander of the Constitution, but we all went army and now air force
After hearing them every day I never put together what they were actually for, makes sense
Ah. I’m homesick.
As I plan to enlist once I'm 17 I think I need to get used to these
No you don’t, as some who just completed AIT about two weeks ago, I only ever heard morning, retreat and to the colors
Isn't "To the Colors" played for Morning Colors, and "Retreat" played for evening colors?
ZThe Best Yes. This is rather convoluted with all the repetition.
when i was in the Marine Corps thats how it was in garrison
Negative, reveille is when the flag is raised for the US Army. Retreat is played right before to the colors when the flag is lowered; it was confusing when my unit trained on a Marine base, haha
In my understanding, retreat is played to signal the end of the official day, and to alert people that the flag is about to be lowered. To the color(s) is typically played during the actual lowering and raising of the flag, and also serves as a substitute for the nat'l anthem.
Revellie is 0630, retreat is 1659 to the colors is 1700
A lot of calls are double. Why ?
I never recall hearing mess call
The image you used for mess call is hilarious to me because of how inaccurate it is.
im a jr drill sgt and i cant even play these
I did not miss the cannons during revielle
If you haven’t been there you just don’t understand C 2/7
I already play the trumpet, and I'm Working on my bugling merit badge. I thought it would be easy, but since the had to learn to double tonge. NOT EASY
I earned the bugling merit badge about 50 years ago. I was first chair trumpet in high school band so it was easy enough. The band director was my merit badge counselor for this one. Actually used it when I worked on summer camp staff and played for morning and evening flag ceremonies.
Good luck!
just so you know a pt is a Physical Therapist >:)
XD i've been at basic training and i always play these.
5:43 what island is that...?
Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, Florida.
No mess hall meal I ever saw looked like this. Mostly, they looked like dog food. And I was the mess officer.
A TrumpET is
worth all the
Hirras
They don’t do reville anymore
Mess Call is like Eat Em Up, the famous marching/pep band song. Which came first?
Mess Call.
I want to serve my country after hearing this
That is very honourable of you. Then go on and serve your country. Cheers, H
You really should, basic is so much fun.
Me too, actually
Did you do it?
I miss this
Meal call is the best with shrimp lo mein
I call mess call come and get your chow chow
They started being used in 1780
taps are actually weird they are a bit boring repeatative and not too fast deadly slow and strange.
90% of these are of French origin surprisingly