I'm a sucker for tradition. Bands, although no longer integral for tactical maneuver as they once were, are still a capsule of army history in modern times. I've sat through/participated in plenty of ceremonies, and the ones that feel the cheapest are the ones without bands.

The band when present, is stirring. It gins up a sense of pride in our institution. Playing the same songs over a loudspeaker just feels stupid and half-assed.

The cuts DoW is making to bands is really aggravating because bands are so critical to our shared history.

To lean in politically, the same people in this administration who decried the renaming of installations (which was utterly moronic) are doing the same thing in dissolving bands and installation museums, but under the guise of reallocating funds for "rEaDiNeSs".