What is your favorite military bugle call to hear?

I love them all. Taps holds a special place in my heart. I also like Adjutant’s Call. There’s nothing like seeing that S1 scurry across the parade field at a range walk.

LTC Stephen F., the first time I heard Taps was in the Boy Scouts, when I got to 7 grade I chose to join the band and learn how to play the cornet. This in turn lead to my dad asking me to learn Taps on camp outs. It's really moving to here as it drifts across the area. But the emotional part came when someone asked my dad if I would play it a a memorial service for a member of the VFW who had passed. They were meeting in an old movie theater, I went to the area where there had once been the projectors. As the ceremony ended I was given my signal and played it, from that moment I truly understood what it ment. Today I always seem to get something in my eyes when I hear it.

My favorite (as far as its musicality) is Tattoo. As a young Marine, I became fascinated with bugle/trumpet calls and their history and was able to learn that the different branches within the U.S. Army each had their own musical calls, with each branch having its own instrument (either a bugle or a trumpet). There were not only the daily service calls (first call, reveille, sick call, mess call, mail call, To the Color, Retreat, Tattoo, &c, - calls that regulated a soldier's day), but also drill calls (about all that is left of these calls are Attention and Carry On), calls that told a soldier how to dress (e.g., Overcoats) and when to do it (Dress Parade), as well as calls for meetings (1st Sergeant's call and Adjutant's call), and tactical calls for the battlefield. By the late 19th c., all the calls had been amalgamated into one set of calls for the entire Army. The Navy added calls for its own purposes. And eventually, as military and naval bases became too big and sprawling for buglers to be able to be heard, electronic systems carried the call (while the trade of field musician fell to the wayside). Every company used to have its bugler (and earlier, its drummer) to play calls. That doesn't exist today. I like it when bugle calls are heard on bases - I think it's a great continuation of tradition, and one that should be done more often..

LTC Stephen F.
Taps is my favorite. I always get a bit misty eyed when I hear it (especially at my Dad's funeral).

I even have bulge calls on my phone. So when I want to here them I click the app.

Better to hear bugle calls that emergency alarms in my view...

"Officers' Call" - Means we're about to "turn to!" "Post" is nice too. However, I'm always looking for the ponies when I hear it.

Tattoo will always be my fave. Just always liked the notes and how they sounded.

Tattoo has got to be my favorite. If you live off post near fort jackson you can hear it every night. For some reason I find it soothing.

I serve on our V.F.W. Honor Guard...I was cooking s’thing up about the Taps playing.
I have Taps In my phone and have a good portable speaker and a friend who has same kind of phone I do... what I did was send her the laps. She early on synced her phone with that speaker.. she followed in her car and was where she could see us.. We pulled off a echo taps..
it was so Neat !.. The family and friends were so impressed.. a friend or relative dropped by and donated a $200 check for our Honor Guard. We’ve done 4 like that over that past 7 months..