Playing Taps is disruptive?

TSgt Joshua Copeland

More evidence of the erosion of military tradition for PC reasons.

I have had many complaints over the years about the playing of reveille in the morning (MPs typically control this) from military spouses, claiming that it disturbs their sleep. My typical response was that "it is the sound of freedom" and politely told them to buzz off.

I did receive guidance once from the XVIII Airborne Corps Chief of Staff to lower the volume of the loudspeakers that played reveille in the morning, because of complaints from the GO/0-6 housing area residents. I complied and turned it back up a notch each day for several days until it was actually louder than it was before. I did that three times, until they finally left me alone.

That's about as good an idea as making a football bat! I was a shift worker and Reveille/Taps never disturbed me! Those little cry babies at Tyndall (assuming the base commander got the idea from the complaint department) need to grow up! It's PC crap like this that makes us weak as a military.

But then, it's like one of my CO's used to say.... We (referring to the military) are a direct representation of our community and country. So in this case, the more PC minded people enlist, the more BS stories like this are going to come out.

Lets see dependents live on post do not enjoy the sound of either taps or reveille it is an easy solution move away from post. Fight the disease that is political correctness

If it is disruptive to anyone around the base, they can't cry about it because they chose to live or work near there. They can find somewhere else if they don't like it. Like another country that doesn't honor troops maybe...

There are military traditions that should remain the same, for years Reveille and Taps have been played on military reservations with little or no problems, and now we decide to change this to satisfy someone who probably complained. How far do we go to please everybody, I say that's impossible. If it's happening at Tyndall Air Force Base, it will soon come to a base near you. When we stop playing Reveille and Taps then we are losing part of our history. When will it stop?

I cant beleave that that to me is a slap in the face thats part of being in the military family

That is just awful... Those things faded away many places, and many places have made a concerted effort to bring back these traditions. Families and shift workers are part of that family, and hence part of the tradition... What were/are they thinking.

I left active duty in 1972 and still miss the daily rituals, the bugle, the canon, rendering honors to the flag at sunrise and sunset.

Shame on this base commander...

ahhhhhhhhhh Hell No!

Well, this made the AF Times already!

http://www.airforcetimes.com/story/military/2015/02/13/airmen-outraged-after-tyndall-nixes-taps-reveille/23352783/