Posted on May 10, 2017
How do you regard musicians in the military? Should they have them?
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Considering most, if not every branch, has a band. As in bands that involves instruments from Piccolos to Tubas. This is an opinionated question. Do you believe that bands are necessary? And what is your opinion of the people who are in them?
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I have seen the long work hrs post band members put in every day. They do have a niche to fill, a mission to support. They are hard working, very talented and often misunderstood Soldiers.
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IMHO the bands can be motivational. Can't play Hail to the Chief, to well on a kazoo.
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Well, this is deja vu all over again, but I don't mind answering again. Yes, bands serve a useful mission. The help promote morale and morale is often as important as bullets and food to a fighting force. Every successful fighting force has employed music, be it as simple as drums or bagpipes (now there's something that will strike terror into the heart of an enemy, not that bagpipes are terrifying but that they herald the arrival of Scots who are terrifying)
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SSgt Boyd Herrst
The Scots and Irish had bagpipes and depending on what they were playing could pick up morale or strike fear into the enemy. A good piece with the right notes with some drums for background effects in a dense fog could have the enemy c******g their drawers..
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