December 06, 2013
— Open Blogger The US Air Force band created a special moment at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington DC this week. Enjoy and please return to the Overnight Open Thread discussion in the previous post. H/TWeaselzippers
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Totally ignoring that the vast majority of full orchestra/band pieces have religious origins or allusions. Yeah, I know this stuff was specifically Christian, and because Christmas soon; but even stuff like a lot of Wagner is allusions and direct operatic retelling of old Norse pagan stuff.
Posted by: Ranba Ral at December 06, 2013 08:17 PM (G99e4)
Posted by: Intrepid at December 06, 2013 08:22 PM (PsCCl)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 06, 2013 08:27 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: typical disgusting Moron at December 06, 2013 08:27 PM (wNQqy)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b] at December 06, 2013 08:28 PM (0HooB)
Posted by: Republic of Texas 2: Electric Boogaloo at December 06, 2013 08:30 PM (Gk2GE)
Sure the cadets hate marching anyway, hear the damn band every damn day before damn lunch, but when the chips are down and the boys are up against it, Sousa is still our secret weapon. I was watching the day the Soviets surrendered to Vladimir Horowitz. He played the piccolo trill with the ring and little fingers, and they said that's enough, we give.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 06, 2013 08:31 PM (xq1UY)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b] at December 06, 2013 08:31 PM (0HooB)
Posted by: CraigN at December 06, 2013 08:32 PM (WWdn2)
Posted by: @ParisParamus at December 06, 2013 08:34 PM (Gcm3A)
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Posted by: CPT. Charles at December 06, 2013 08:37 PM (lJaja)
Posted by: Intrepid at December 06, 2013 08:40 PM (PsCCl)
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Posted by: The Hickster at December 06, 2013 08:51 PM (TI3xG)
Posted by: Chris M at December 06, 2013 09:03 PM (4lyMJ)
Posted by: rickl at December 06, 2013 09:03 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Dancing Queen at December 06, 2013 09:07 PM (FDGeg)
Posted by: YTown Guy at December 06, 2013 09:11 PM (das+y)
Oh, yeah, I'm still pissed.
And the chick on the flute has to weigh 300 lbs. Really? drop the cheesburgers, lumpy, and ffs run a mile or two.
Posted by: tangonine at December 06, 2013 09:13 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: rickl at December 06, 2013 09:14 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Chris M Plus, my little girl's cheerleading team just got 1st in state! Yay! What a happy night.
Posted by: Chris M
Congrats.
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at December 06, 2013 09:14 PM (uCNam)
Posted by: Chris M Plus, my little girl's cheerleading team just got 1st in state! Yay! What a happy night.
Awesome! The Horde cares. That's pretty freaking cool.
Posted by: tangonine at December 06, 2013 09:16 PM (x3YFz)
Check out this hero shit; Pilot pulls up after attempted landing in cross winds.
"Video: Airplane gets blown sideways while attempting to land"
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at December 06, 2013 09:21 PM (uCNam)
Talented crew and that was pretty cool.
Well done AF band.
Posted by: tangonine at December 06, 2013 09:22 PM (x3YFz)
Like the Jewish poster said, it's music for everyone. Western civilization has given the world such a gift, it's a shame to suppress it.
Posted by: PJ at December 06, 2013 09:23 PM (ZWaLo)
These are the things that are fun at the moment. But more important good for your daughter because her (and the teams) efforts were rewarded for real accomplishments/work. Great life lesson doing something she loves.
Posted by: The Hickster at December 06, 2013 09:24 PM (TI3xG)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2013 09:25 PM (BC6cY)
1) don't push red buttons
2) music, well played, is entrancing; and no matter where your soul is at a specific point in time, a beautifully played piece soothes and brings hope.
3) if you find yourself in the Hall in the pentagon, alone, you'll never forget it.
again, well done AF band.
Posted by: tangonine at December 06, 2013 09:27 PM (x3YFz)
If only I could go by that rule and still be employed. Half the equipment in my lab is started with a red button.
Posted by: The Hickster at December 06, 2013 09:31 PM (TI3xG)
Posted by: PMRich at December 06, 2013 09:33 PM (KDUNf)
Posted by: John Roberts at December 06, 2013 09:34 PM (XFTOV)
Posted by: Chris M at December 06, 2013 09:35 PM (4lyMJ)
Our base had just won some random award, so they picked a bunch of us NCOs to travel to the pentagon to accept it. I was classic Texas boy/drill instructor, all full of myself, ripped, doing like a billion push ups a day; invincible etc etc. I had just been awarded my master military training instructor blue rope, so I'm thinking I'm the shit.
We do the tour, visit the chiefs of staff, and then we wander into the Hall.
Randy and Gary had just been awarded the medal like a week prior, so their citations were up on the wall.
So there I was. Space shuttle door gunner.
And suddenly I'm alone in there. The tour had moved on. I'm reading names. For the first time in my life I felt very, very small. I wept. I left my shiny new campaign hat with the shiny new blue rope on the floor in that room. Some guy asked me where my cover was later and I told him I left it in The Hall. He nodded.
You might not care but as I type this, there's still tears. A humbling place, that little room.
Posted by: tangonine at December 06, 2013 09:38 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: whatmeworry? at December 06, 2013 09:42 PM (dZGNV)
Never bypass safety switches/guards you don't understand. In the class before mine in Powdered Metallurgy (which mostly consists of compressing the crap out of powdered metals). A set of twins thought that one of them could use their fingers to break loose a stuck die clamp ring. This was ona 20 ton press and they worked as a team to bypass the safety's. Needless to say you can now tell the twins apart if they aren't wearing mittens.
Posted by: The Hickster at December 06, 2013 09:43 PM (TI3xG)
Posted by: typical disgusting Moron, this time with feeling at December 06, 2013 09:45 PM (wNQqy)
Posted by: rickl at December 06, 2013 09:48 PM (sdi6R)
try and tell that to a Marine.
Posted by: whatmeworry? at December 07, 2013 01:42 AM (dZGNV)
LOL! a friend of mine is a navy corpsman. I'm AF. We both have the same view of Marines: They're dumb, but they fight well. Just keep them away from scissors, chainsaws and electricity.
Posted by: tangonine at December 06, 2013 09:48 PM (x3YFz)
.
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[sotto voce] ... tho I still wouldn't mind that blonde.
Posted by: typical disgusting Moron, this time with feeling at December 07, 2013 01:45 AM (wNQqy)
The Hall of Heroes. First room on your left as you enter the main entrance of the pentagon. Every Medal of Honor recipient is named there.
Posted by: tangonine at December 06, 2013 09:51 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: typical disgusting Moron, done fapping over blonde flautists at December 06, 2013 09:51 PM (wNQqy)
Posted by: The Hickster at December 07, 2013 01:43 AM (TI3xG)
I'm still laughing!
Posted by: tangonine at December 06, 2013 09:52 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: JEM at December 06, 2013 09:52 PM (o+SC1)
Posted by: JEM at December 07, 2013 01:52 AM (o+SC1)
That place and Arlington. To this day I can't step foot in Arlington. I was honor guard for 100 funerals and then I had to stop. You leave a piece of you at each one and I was out of pieces.
I can't go to Arlington. Just can't. Too much.
Posted by: tangonine at December 06, 2013 10:03 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: rickl at December 06, 2013 10:12 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: rickl at December 07, 2013 02:12 AM (sdi6R)
Oh I've got stories. But I can't tell them all in one night 
I had a guy throw a wheelchair at me when I presented the flag to him. Yup. You read that right.
Posted by: tangonine at December 06, 2013 10:15 PM (x3YFz)
Thank you for your service to our country (and me a 4F douche). And to the family's you honored when you were there.
Posted by: The Hickster at December 06, 2013 10:15 PM (TI3xG)
Posted by: FCF at December 06, 2013 10:16 PM (Khja4)
But only the vessels were small, the men who rode them were giants. Big courage and even bigger dreams.
Now, we're no longer a nation that dares great things. We're a nation preoccupied with going to the doctor.
I despise liberalism, the killer of dreams.
Posted by: Powderhouse Rules at December 06, 2013 10:25 PM (YBusZ)
After about funeral 80, I was pulling the team into the armory to grab the M-14s and and the SF guy in the cage said "SSgt, do you DO anything other than bury people?"
So being the good NCO I am, I called his boss and had him come along with us. It was a small detail, just firing team and me. And of course Buck Sgt security forces guy.
I told him he's presenting the flag. I can't describe the fear in his eyes when I ordered him to do that. But, he did a very good job of presenting the flag to the 74 year old wife of a WWII vet he sat quietly in the van all the way home.
Posted by: tangonine at December 06, 2013 10:25 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: FCF at December 06, 2013 10:31 PM (Khja4)
Growing up "No Fear" was our credo not something printed on our T shirt.
Oh there was a whole lot of stupid involved but I and most of my friends beat Darwin. And became Men.
Posted by: The Hickster at December 06, 2013 10:32 PM (TI3xG)
Posted by: FCF at December 07, 2013 02:31 AM (Khja4)
No sorry necessary! In fact I feel guilty for even bringing it up because as I read what I posted it looks like "look at me!" and that was never the intent.
We've got troops on the line, right now. Today. Fighting in a forgotten war. That's where my heart is: with them.
I wish I was 20 again and could hump 300lbs through the Hindu Kush, but my knees and ankles are old. Heart's in it; body, not so much. No one wants to get back into the fight more than I do but time is a bitch.
Posted by: tangonine at December 06, 2013 10:37 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: The Hickster at December 07, 2013 02:32 AM (TI3xG)
Amen.
Posted by: tangonine at December 06, 2013 10:43 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: FCF at December 07, 2013 02:16 AM (Khja4)
Well, it's a Christmas (emphasis on Christ) song so you can't really celebrate the birth of Jesus without acknowledging Jesus
And the first person to bring up Kwanza gets punched in the dick.
Posted by: tangonine at December 06, 2013 10:45 PM (x3YFz)
Comment about the cover was due to a former employee here.
There is a button in the control room, next to all the other alarm pull stations (Fire, Weather, Chemical). This button has a glass cover and a small hammer mounted to a chain. Anybody with common sense realizes immediately that the little hammer is to break the glass - not so obvious to the former employee.
They decide to unscrew the cover that holds the glass in place. When the pressure on the button is released, it trips the fire shunts on the main power breaker feeding the plant.
He stood there in mute shock as the plant went from running full out to immediate stop.
Posted by: PMRich at December 06, 2013 10:57 PM (KDUNf)
tangonine, reminds me of an Iraq/Afghanistan vet I work with. He has a pic of a guy in in full body armor firing an M-249 around a corner.
It says "You'll never be this awesome again."
Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at December 06, 2013 11:21 PM (YMK+F)
Posted by: FCF at December 06, 2013 11:30 PM (Khja4)
Anybody that does funeral duty has my respect. That is always a tough job.
Posted by: PMRich at December 07, 2013 03:00 AM (KDUNf)
Brother, it's one of those things you're glad you did and glad you'll never do again. #100 was my dad. Oh yeah.
Put your dress uniform on and hand a flag to your mom and say "on behalf of the president of the United States, I offer this as respect for your loved one." And then stand at attention, in front of your mom, and funeral salute.
THAT was a long fucking day.
Posted by: tangonine at December 06, 2013 11:54 PM (x3YFz)
Only military honors funerals I have been to:
Take families out to sea on Navy vessel. As a pit-snipe I wasn't even allowed out on deck.
Mom's funeral at Andersonville in GA. If the treatment of the family at other locations is anywhere near as nice as we recieved there....
Posted by: PMRich at December 07, 2013 12:00 AM (KDUNf)
Posted by: FCF at December 07, 2013 12:17 AM (Khja4)
Posted by: FCF at December 07, 2013 12:40 AM (Khja4)
Posted by: DAve, el patron(izer) at December 07, 2013 02:14 AM (b7yum)
And good news, at least one part of the military can still plan and execute an operation.
Let us pray that all those who's first reaction to such music is an attempt to ban it, that their hears change. They are no better than the religious of Massachusetts Colony who chased so many 'heretics' to Rhode Island or did worse things.
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Posted by: someguy at December 07, 2013 03:25 AM (xlCX2)
I was honor guard for 100 funerals and then I had to stop. You leave a piece of you at each one and I was out of pieces.
Posted by: tangonine at December 07, 2013 02:03 AM (x3YFz)
I don't have anything to say to that. Thanks, tangonine, and I'm sure the families thank you too.
Posted by: rickl at December 07, 2013 02:12 AM (sdi6R)>>
Whenever I go to a funeral and a military honor comes out, I get blubbery as hell
Posted by: Albie Damned at December 07, 2013 03:51 AM (cGaCp)
Posted by: Baldy at December 07, 2013 04:05 AM (2bql3)
It just makes your soul soar.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 07, 2013 12:27 AM (DmNpO)
+1000
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