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Doe asked Cervenka to join soon after as a co-lead vocalist, and the duo were also the band's primary songwriters. They released their debut album, Los Angeles, in 1980 and, over the next six years, five more albums. She learned to play guitar from Dave Alvin of The Blasters. [5]
The United States Army Band, also known as "Pershing's Own", is the premier musical organization of the United States Army, founded in 1922.There are currently seven official performing ensembles in the unit: The U.S. Army Concert Band, The U.S. Army Ceremonial Band, The U.S. Army Chorus, The U.S. Army Blues, The U.S. Army Band Downrange, The U.S. Army Herald Trumpets, and The U.S. Army Strings.
Special Services (entertainment) Special Services was the entertainment branch of the American military. The unit was created on 22 July 1940 by the War Department as part of the Army Service Forces. [ 1] Special Services not only used its own specially trained and talented troops but also would often engage local performers. [ 2]
History of AFRTS: The first 50 years. U.S. Government Printing Office (1993). Patrick Morley: 'This Is the American Forces Network': The Anglo-American Battle of the Air Waves in World War II. Praeger Publishing (2001). Trent Christman: Brass Button Broadcasters: A Lighthearted Look at Fifty Years of Military Broadcasting. Turner Publishing (1992).
The military–entertainment complex is the cooperation between militaries and entertainment industries to their mutual benefit, especially in such fields as cinema, multimedia, virtual reality, and multisensory extended reality. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Though the term can be used to describe any military–entertainment complex in any nation, the most ...
This color guard consists of personnel from 5 of the 6 military branches of the United States Armed Forces ( Army, Marines, Air Force, Navy, and Coast Guard ). Military branch (also service branch or armed service) is according to common standard a subdivision of the national armed forces of a sovereign nation or state. Part of a series on. War.
Blunt was born James Hillier Blount on 22 February 1974 [6] at Tidworth Camp military hospital, then in Hampshire, England.His mother, Jane Ann Farran (née Amos), started a ski chalet company in the French Alpine resort of Méribel, while his father, Charles Blount, [7] was a cavalry officer in the 13th/18th Royal Hussars and then a helicopter pilot, becoming a Colonel in the Army Air Corps.
A military band is a group of personnel that performs musical duties for military functions, usually for the armed forces. A typical military band consists mostly of wind and percussion instruments. The conductor of a band commonly bears the title of bandmaster or music director.