What is your favorite military bugle call to hear?

My favorite bugle call by far: is TAPS! I remember TAPS being played whilst I was going to sleep; in Basic Training! LTC Stephen F.

Actually, I enjoyed all the bugle calls, but Taps remained my favorite.

Taps. It’s a fitting melody after a long days work.

Taps, Reminds me every day what it's all about.

I played Taps for our Legion Post on Memorial Day (we called it Decoration Day back then). We did services at three different country cemeteries. 1903 Springfield rifles. Taps and Retreat are my favorite.

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Assembly, To the colors, Retreat-Nat’l Anthem Tattoo when at an Army Posr
I served on Base Honor Guard and participated in many a ceremony, morn’g and even’g , Retirement ceremonies ..
Had a couple Airmen, maybe more...
That were look’g at comp time because it was their day off... “Airman, let me remind you that you are subject to duty 24/7/365 or 366 at the whim of your Military branch of Service. By chance you do get days that are not scheduled for duty . Also, you signed up for this ! Right? If you don’t like giving your personal time for this honorable duty, feel free to stop by the Honor Guard office with your gear and resign forthwith, AM I CLEAR?”... Airman mumbling.. Me; “I can’t hear you, Airman!”
I don’ymt hear anything from them for a few days.. so I took it they were not resigning..,I expected to see them at next call up for a detail.. I was not the NCOIC but have been a detail NCO for funerals, assemblies, Retreats, Retirements. ..
I got a phone call from one Airman’s 1SGT.. The Airman didn’t tell the whole
Story.. He invited the NCOIC and myself to meet with him and the Airman.. well I
Was there and so was he and the Airman..
My NCOIC didn’t get there right away.. ..
The Airman told his side of the story which didn’t coincide with the first sitrep..
I said “you commented about being comped for being present for duty on your off day, Airman.. I commented in there somewhere that you “signed up” for Honor Guard .. you wanted to do the Detsils.. So why are you changing your story, Airman?” The NCOIC Of HG a
Had finally arrived. He didn’t say anything in defense of the Airman or myself... His 1SGT looked at him and asked if he had brought his HG gear.. he said he had.. “Turn it over to the HG NCOIC and get outta my face!”.. 1SGT was Not a happy camper with his Airman.. I asked the HG
NCOIC why hadn’t he commented.. “why should I , you did a fantastic job of it!” He grabbed the uniform and I got the helmet
Bag and we got out of the 1SGTs office..
Some other Airmen members commented they were pleased to see him go.. some others commented I was out of line and it wasn’t my position to tell him what I did.. The NCOIC backed me .. saying Something about the SSGT Chevrons on my sleeves.. . Somebody
Implied he should go to the I.G... s’body else said they’d look into it and kick it back in his face.. eventually his story was history.. thanks for that !.. talk about being comped disappeared .. it’s up to a Airman’s duty section to comp them for duty completed on their own time.. it depends what it is .. He needed to be aware he signed up for it.. We often pushed the wire to NOT get back to base
Quicklike after a funeral detail.. (take long enough[8 hrs])... In NJ, NY, and out west
at Travis it was easy to blame the Freeways (getting tied up in jam-ups ).. it worked if our detail were close enough to
That traffic area.. I had done a detail on my day off after having worked the previous 12 hours at flight kitchen.. My
HG SGT asked why I hadn’t asked to be
Comped.. “Why, I volunteered ... I love doing this.. i had 2 days to rest-up.. i’m Not whining about stand’g for a few hours.. ..They’d tell me to get off the Guard .. After that I got good details.. we had a flight that did base details and that’s all .. bunch a whiners.., why? They had to go back to work after detail was over... I got off the bus one day .. they let me off at my bks. I went in, freshened up again(it was like 90• out.. ). Came out of the bks.. and headed to the Airmen’s Dng
Hall.. A mbr from another FLT had seen me get off the bus... I surmise he was butthurt because I didn’t have to return to work.. if he’d asked me, I’d told him I’d worked night before So I was on my time for two days.. just ask.. geez ! My own section covered my ‘6’ and told who’d enquired that i’d Worked the night before..
I got with them.. I signed on knowing I’d have detail like this... I’m not handling a front-end loader.. or a bus.. so I’m not going to run into s’body.. Some wise guy says i’m Making other people look bad because they’re being comped.. Too bad.! Grow a couple !.. own up! It’s a duty !...

Here is a video of the daily sequence of bugle calls as you will find them in the United States Army.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBTv4xWwPlQ.

Daily Sequence
First Call
Reveille
Assembly
Mess Call (morning)
Sick Call*
Drill Call*
Assembly
First Sergeant's Call*
Officer's Call*
recall*
Mail Call
Mess Call (noon)
Drill Call*
Assembly
recall*
Mess Call (evening)
tattoo
Call to Quarters
taps

FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. LTC Wayne Brandon LTC Bill Koski Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Capt Seid Waddell Capt Tom Brown Maj Marty Hogan MSG Andrew White SFC William Farrell SSgt Robert Marx PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SPC Margaret Higgins MSgt Jason McClish AN Christopher Crayne SPC Tom DeSmet SGT Charles H. Hawes SGT (Join to see) SSG David Andrews

To the Colors and Retreat of the flag on April 1, 2012 at West Point
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg5HxFaKdmc
FYI LTC Kenneth Konstanzer CPT Ronald Beebe CPT Caseey Brady LTC Bill Camargo LTC Bill Koski LTC Wayne Brandon MAJ Gregory Chura LTC William Conrad COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj William W. 'Bill' Price Sgt Randy Wilber Sgt John H. SGT Gregory Lawritson CPL Dave Hoover SPC Margaret Higgins SrA Christopher Wright Cpl Gabriel F. Cpl Scott McCarroll

I well remember Taps at USMA, West Point. It was played each evening by a lone bugler across the plain. After the death of my friend
"A soldier plays taps at a one star generals funeral at the West Point cemetery.
A scene seen way too often for the Army's heroes and warriors."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHrvL9fU_Ec

FYI LTC Kenneth Konstanzer CPT Ronald Beebe CPT Caseey Brady LTC Bill Camargo LTC Bill Koski LTC Wayne Brandon MAJ Gregory Chura LTC William Conrad COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj William W. 'Bill' Price Sgt Randy Wilber Sgt John H. SGT Gregory Lawritson CPL Dave Hoover SPC Margaret Higgins SrA Christopher Wright Cpl Gabriel F. Cpl Scott McCarroll