8) 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

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

Originally Posted by Missileer

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.

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"

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

whats the dang last post?