Posted on Mar 20, 2016
What Are Your Memories Of The Colors?
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I have many memories of the Colors. I have served on Color Guard and uncasing/casing of the Colors meant a lot especially in July 2013 as the 15th BSB uncased the Battalion Colors to kick off our tour in Afghanistan. "What a feeling"
Casing and Uncasing the Colors
The Color guard is formed in a line formation with the cased Colors at the carry position (order position when
MAJ Ken Landgren SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4" SSgt Obom Bowen CPT (Join to see) LTC Stephen F. SSG Warren Swan PO2 Ed C. SGM David W. Carr LOM, DMSM MP SGT SSgt (Join to see) CPT L SSP5 Michael Rathbun CW5 (Join to see) CW5 Charlie Poulton SMSgt Minister Gerald A. Thomas SGM Mikel Dawson CSM Charles Hayden SGT Benjamin Lindsey SPC Andrew Griffin d SN Greg Wright TSgt Hunter Logan
Casing and Uncasing the Colors
The Color guard is formed in a line formation with the cased Colors at the carry position (order position when
MAJ Ken Landgren SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4" SSgt Obom Bowen CPT (Join to see) LTC Stephen F. SSG Warren Swan PO2 Ed C. SGM David W. Carr LOM, DMSM MP SGT SSgt (Join to see) CPT L SSP5 Michael Rathbun CW5 (Join to see) CW5 Charlie Poulton SMSgt Minister Gerald A. Thomas SGM Mikel Dawson CSM Charles Hayden SGT Benjamin Lindsey SPC Andrew Griffin d SN Greg Wright TSgt Hunter Logan
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When the NFL played the FIRST game in Europe, I was there representing the Army. It was awesome to see some of the players in real life. I thought many were giants on TV but to stand next to an offisive lineman and he's not much taller or bigger than you was cool. To see Peyton Manning thinking he was tall as hell and he's my height made the NFL seem more human than legendary. The ONLY downside was after the game we were at the locker rooms with our game balls to be signed. Three balls were circulated one for me and two for the NCOIC. Two balls went home. Mine was taken by the AFN rep with a promise he'd get it back to me (he was supposed to go inside and get more signatures). I never got it back. But I was there on Wenbly Field (hallowed ground in England), supporting my unit, country, and myself. http://www.usafe.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123074004
US Joint Color Guard Opens 1st Regular Season NFL Game in London
For U.S. Marine Corporal Ryan P. Hall it was a challenge not much different from other color guard presentations he has performed. "We've done color guard duties in the rain so that was nothing new either," said the Marine who has been serving on color guards for ten years since his high school ROTC
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
SSG Warren Swan thanks for sharing this honorable memory of the Colors, representing the Army is a huge Color guard I imagine with all the flags. Thank you for your service to the Nation Brother.( Duty Honor Country.)
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My memories are the colors flying at hast mast in memory of my fallen comrades, the passing of the colors at my change of command as incoming infantry company commander in February 1985 and outgoing company commander in September 1986 at Fort Benning, and the trooping of the colors at countless parades as a cadet at West Point and a half dozen at Fort Benning SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL.
I don't know how many times I paused while walking or got of my car to honor the lowering of the colors each day at Retreat at Army posts from Fort Lenard Wood in 1974 through Fort Benning in 2008 and many more locations in between.
I don't know how many times I paused while walking or got of my car to honor the lowering of the colors each day at Retreat at Army posts from Fort Lenard Wood in 1974 through Fort Benning in 2008 and many more locations in between.
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
LTC Stephen F. thank you simply it resonates in your spirit Duty Honor Country.
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Army/USMA/MacArthur/1962_speech_to_the_Corps.html
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Army/USMA/MacArthur/1962_speech_to_the_Corps.html
Duty, Honor, Country: Gen. MacArthur's Speech to the Corps of Cadets, 1962
Accurately retranscribed from an audio recording of the original speech. (Most online versions of this speech are faulty, and/or omit sections.)
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For me, SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL, it would be standing reveille and retreat everyday at OCS. Both events were conducted with precision by all and conducted no matter what. Many thought it a pain, but I've always enjoyed both ceremonies and the accompanying bugle calls.
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