Topic: TAPS.....DID YOU KNOW.....?????? 2

FULLMETALJACKET · August 20th, 2005

I like the reveille post, now what is reveille played for, getting up? and taps to go to sleep? then what is the last post? im confised

istealfreefood · August 20th, 2005

revielle is the wake up call, and Taps is played for funerals and for going to bed

Missileer · August 20th, 2005

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Originally Posted by Missileer

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Originally Posted by LeEnfield

Missileer........ The words to the British Army Reveille are as follows and were sung often by the soldiers.

You've got get up you've get up in the morning,
Hands off c*cks on with your socks,
You've got get up in the morning.

This phrase just gets repeated like most bugle calls

Well, they didn't sing it but the drill instructors in boot camp would scream "allright, drop your c****s and grab your socks. Off your ass and on your feet, outta the shade and into the heat."

The last post contained , more or less, jody cadences to march by. There are hundreds of them but sometimes, they were sung to tunes.

K9Dug · August 22nd, 2005

Each Scottish regiment has its own Funeral pipe tune, nothing is more haunting than the "last Post" then a tune like "Flowers of the Forrest" or "Lochaber no more"

LeEnfield · August 22nd, 2005

K9Dug......What about Sunset chum that is often played insteadof the last post

tomtom22 · October 5th, 2005

For more info on the bugle call TAPS see this site:

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/taps-pro2.htm

Dean · October 8th, 2005

http://www.comsources.com/taps/legend_taps.htm

The origin of Taps admits to much romance. One of the fanciful stories that has captured the imagination of many is one that identifies Taps with a Civil War Captain Robert Ellicombe of the Union Army. However, according to Master Sergeant Jari Villaneuva of the Arlington National Cemetery Taps Project, there is no record of a Captain Robert Ellicombe in the Union Army. The story has other problems, too. In its usual form the enemy armies are at rest during the night, which is the only way the moans of a single soldier can be heard. Yet, the story adds that the brave Captain crawls through withering enemy fire to rescue the wounded soldier. The implausability of a Civil War soldier going through the cannon and rifle fire to rescue an injured comrade--during the battle--is matched only by the fact that the story tells us that it was the Captain of the troop who did it!

Sorry if I broke someone's bubble...

Dean.

Charge 7 · October 8th, 2005

If you had read page one of this thread, Dean, you'd have realized you're a little bit late with that news.

Dean · October 8th, 2005

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Originally Posted by Charge 7

If you had read page one of this thread, Dean, you'd have realized you're a little bit late with that news.

Well, now... sometimes I'm fast...

Sometimes I'm ssssslloooowww...

But usually I get it right... sooner or later, anyway. But you are right, I did not read the whole thread. Sitting at my computer at 01:30 does that to me.

Cheers.

Dean.

FULLMETALJACKET · November 10th, 2005

whats the dang last post?

August 20th, 2005	Post 12
istealfreefood Tribunus Laticlavius Gear	revielle is the wake up call, and Taps is played for funerals and for going to bed __________________ You can't scratch and salute at the same time! That's communist! - LTC Ivens Son, you got a panty on yo' head. - Raising Arizona

August 22nd, 2005	Post 14
K9Dug Milites Gregarius	Each Scottish regiment has its own Funeral pipe tune, nothing is more haunting than the "last Post" then a tune like "Flowers of the Forrest" or "Lochaber no more" Last edited by K9Dug; June 3rd, 2006 at 20:28.

August 22nd, 2005	Post 15
LeEnfield Tribunus Laticlavius Gear	K9Dug......What about Sunset chum that is often played insteadof the last post __________________ LeEnfield Rides again

October 5th, 2005	Post 16
tomtom22 Chief Engineer Gear	For more info on the bugle call TAPS see this site: http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/taps-pro2.htm __________________ "It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle." - Norman Schwarskopf, Commander of Desert Storm Operations

October 8th, 2005	Post 18
Charge 7 Master Gunner	If you had read page one of this thread, Dean, you'd have realized you're a little bit late with that news. __________________ "Do not forget your dogs of war, your big guns, which are the most-to-be respected arguments of the rights of kings." - Frederick the Great, King of Prussia

August 20th, 2005	Post 11
FULLMETALJACKET MilForum Bad Apple Gear	I like the reveille post, now what is reveille played for, getting up? and taps to go to sleep? then what is the last post? im confised

October 8th, 2005	Post 17
Dean Centurion Gear	http://www.comsources.com/taps/legend_taps.htm The origin of Taps admits to much romance. One of the fanciful stories that has captured the imagination of many is one that identifies Taps with a Civil War Captain Robert Ellicombe of the Union Army. However, according to Master Sergeant Jari Villaneuva of the Arlington National Cemetery Taps Project, there is no record of a Captain Robert Ellicombe in the Union Army. The story has other problems, too. In its usual form the enemy armies are at rest during the night, which is the only way the moans of a single soldier can be heard. Yet, the story adds that the brave Captain crawls through withering enemy fire to rescue the wounded soldier. The implausability of a Civil War soldier going through the cannon and rifle fire to rescue an injured comrade--during the battle--is matched only by the fact that the story tells us that it was the Captain of the troop who did it! Sorry if I broke someone's bubble... Dean.

November 10th, 2005	Post 20
FULLMETALJACKET MilForum Bad Apple Gear	whats the dang last post? __________________ "For Democracy, any man would give his only begotten son."