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The musings of Ray Trygstad: IT guy, professor, Naval officer, world traveler and sometime preacher.
April 07, 2004
Marine Band Ceremonial CD

Marine Band Drum MajorOne of the problems that perennially plagues the senior junior officers in the U.S. armed forces is having the right music for a Dining In. (“senior” junior officers? Yes Virginia, there is ONE time there is seniority among Ensigns/Second Lieutenants—and this is when it's time to plan and execute the Dining In.) If you screw this up, it will be as though the ceiling had opened up and all the O-4s in your unit were up there equipped with excrement-loaded SuperSoakers ensuring you are in the brown stuff up to your eyeballs. But hark, fear not, for I bring you good tidings of great military joy! The United States Marine Band (The President's Own®) has solved this dilemma by providing every bugle call, every march, every drumroll you might possibly need to ensure the audio success of your Dining In. It's all there on the Marine Band Ceremonial CD; all you have to do is download it and burn it to a CD. Hey, you are a JO aren't you? You know how to burn a CD! Now if you had to rely on that Major or LCDR to do it...

Posted by trygstad | Category: Navy | 10:40 PM

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