What's your favorite military song (or cadence)?

[Johnny_L.A]

@Raguleader

I vaguely remember another Forbidden Jodie that mentioned that “Napalm Sticks To Kids!”

The version used in An Officer And A Gentleman. (With clickable audio.)

[Raguleader]

@ZipperJJ

My high school marching band came on the field to Le Regiment de Sambre et Meuse, which you know better as the “script Ohio” song. We made a big N - nothing to “dot”.

It’s actually the hardest song we had to play, for a trombonist at least - mainly because we played it fast like OSU does instead of like the band in the first clip. In four years of band I never learned to play it exactly correct. Even when we had to test the song every summer I did a horrible flub job (and I was really good at trombone). It was just exhausting to play.

However, that song gets me pumped and I’ll often bring up an MP3 of it when I need a little motivation at work. And yeah, it almost moves me to tears at Bowl games, too

I actually found all of the “official US military marches” tiring. We had to play them as a medley for the Memorial Day parade. I think marching in block formation to actual marches while playing was really hard, possibly because of the trombone parts (especially “Wild Blue Yonder”). Playing flowery music and getting into looping formations on the field during halftime was much easier. I don’t think I could ever swing being in a real military band.

Sorry about the tangent. Carry on, soldiers.

If you want to check out a badass military-style marching band, check out some of the performance videos of the Texas A&M Corps Of Cadets Band. Kind of a mix between precision military marching and more marching-band style marching. You can tell there are a few points in the songs where the crowd tends to go wild.

But yeah, as far as marching songs go, a couple of my favorites are performed by the A&M Band, most notably the Aggie War Hymn ((http://www.aggieband.org/music/war_hymn.mp3) Lyrics on Wiki). In case you can’t tell, the drum major at the beginning is giving the command “RECALL! STEP OFF ON HULLABALOO!”. Whenever you hear a pause in the music, it’s normally filled with everyone not in the band giving off a loud, old fashioned “WHOOP!”

[Clothahump]

@Argent Towers

When I was a kid my grandpa (who was in the Army, in the Korean War) always sang these two songs:

1. “You’re in the Army now! You’re in the Army now!” That’s all I can remember of it.

You’re in the Army now.
You’re not behind a plow.
You’ll never get rich, you sunnuvabitch,
You’re in the Army now!

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[Clothahump]

And of course, the favorite song to sing while standing on the barracks roof with a rifle in one hand and your johnson in the other:

This is my rifle, this is my gun.
One is for fighting, the other’s for fun!