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My first Bandmaster, Chief John Bledsoe, retired a Full Commander. He told me he made sure no band ever did those kinds of duties again, and all Navy Bands are now shore based. I believe there are 7 Bands world wide. Navy Band Northwest – Naval Submarine Base Bangor, Silverdale, WA Navy Band Southwest – Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, CA Navy Band Great Lakes – Naval Station Great Lakes, Great Lakes, IL Navy Band Mid-South – Naval Support Activity Mid-South, Millington, TN Navy Band New Orleans – Naval Support Activity New Orleans, New Orleans, LA Navy Band Northeast – Naval Station Newport, Newport, RI U.S. Fleet Forces Band – U.S. Fleet Forces Command, Norfolk, VA Navy Band Southeast – Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL The United States Navy Band – Washington Navy Yard, Washington, DC Naval Academy Band – United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD Bands Outside the Continental U.S. PACIFIC Fleet Band – U.S. PACIFIC Fleet, Pearl Harbor, HI U.S. Naval Forces Europe Band – Commander, Naval Forces Europe, Naples, Italy SEVENTH Fleet Band – U.S. SEVENTH Fleet, Yokosuka, Japan Support Unit Navy Band Fleet Support Unit – Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, Norfolk, VA School of Music Navy School of Music – Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, Norfolk, VA

Before our Med Cruise (1968), the musicians in our band also went to Dam Neck, VA to train to be radarscope watchers, writing backwards on a plexiglass board, a few other odd jobs in the Flag CIC. When we left Dam Neck on our last day, we owned the record for the most number of bogies being tracked in the final simulated class exercise. I don't think that went over well with the top brass of the school. Anyway, Navy Musicians no longer do that second job - just musicians, and I don't believe they have Navy Bands assigned for sea duty anymore.

Just want to let everyone know that an AED is for defibrillating a heart (a heart rate that is so fast, it is functionally useless). All the AED machines I have used will tell you to keep doing CPR if there is no heart rate, and will let you know when it is ok to press the button. From AED USA Can You Use an AED on Someone with a Stopped Heart? The short answer to this is no. An AED can only be used on someone with a rapid heart rate. You cannot use it on victims with an extremely slow heart rhythm or those whose heart stops beating. They are great machines and have saved many lives, but not the initial answer to everything.

Probably off topic, but I compare all ballads to Cadets 2005 "Dancer in the Dark". That, to me, was the best ballad I have ever heard, as well as maybe the best choreographed (with the battery moving backwards getting farther and farther back), yet there was no problem with timing back to front. Such perfect demand.

The system used doesn't pick up the harmonica sound and send it through the speakers. The system picks up the harmonica's vibrations and the system converts the vibrations into notes. I can't get any more specific than that because this is what I heard the corps person explain just before they did their show.

No, I have high cam ok

Is it just me? Multi Cam says this event has ended.

Meh. I cannot get into Colts at all this year. Great job Colts! Colts lacked energy tonight. It's a great show, but this was not their best performance. Yes! That was the best Colts performance yet this summer. Don't you just love it! I always say,"That's why Baskin-Robbins makes 31 flavors."

This question is a bit off point, but does anyone know where the SCV MMs went if anywhere?

Didn't know that - that didn't hurt any!

MY favorite non-ballad is Bump! what a great piece of music.

When Cipriani and NcNutt left Cadets and went to Boston - that was the start of all this upward movement.

Quit what?

when they wear their Cavies' hats, don't the tubas generally wear their plums on the opposite side from the rest of the brass line?

There is no down time with McNutt's writing. That battery is playing a lot!

Bump drives me crazy!

what are nesting basses?

has Crown had 6 bass drums all year? If so, I can't believe I missed that.

The best looking tarps. I believe they will claim 5th spot at finals.

Does DCI have parameters for calling shows because of heat?

that's why we're all up watching this show.

I see BD going undefeated for awhile - don't know if they will make it all the way. Boston 2nd, with Crown and Bloo 3rd and 4th. I see less than 1.5 from 1st - 4th. Cadets 5th, and who knows what after that.

an opinion is never wrong!

would be nice to have comments without each other trying to tell someone else how wrong they are - REALLY. If you don't agree, then don't agree. Why this big need to put people down you don't agree with. We should be grown up enough to just not comment back or at least do it constructively not derogatory. Seems that would add to the enjoyment of the discussion.

A question - how does a team from Japan get into the World Series?