How Stretched is the Army? Go to hotjobs.com & enter "music" as a keyword

[stopbush]

search and see what you get: a full page of job listings for just about every Army & Navy band in the country.

When I was in music school (1972-77), a few classmates took the Army band route after their sophomore year. It was a little money, they got to play every day and they had a chance to learn a few other skills while serving their country. Join today and you're likely to end up blowing *Revelry* at some god-forsaken sand-pit-of-a-base as part of *'s oil wars!

If the armed forces are reaching into their band ranks for deployed personnel, then we're really in trouble.

[rucky]

1. I wonder what kind of range you'd get

if you launched a grenade out of a trombone?

[stopbush]

3. Sorry, but you never launch a grenade *out* of a trombone.

You've got the direction reversed.

Q: What does a trombonist say when he gets to his gig?

A: "Do you want fries with that?"

Q: What do you call a trombonist without a girlfriend?

A: Homeless

[Lars39]

2. I know a guy that was in the AF band for years....played clarinet and sax.

He is now in Iraq. Been there quite a few months, too. They are so desperate for warm bodies, so they can avoid a draft. :(

[wtmusic]

4. A trombone player

friend of mine signed up for the Army Band during 'Nam believing he could avoid combat. Too bad--he got news he was being shipped off anyway, at the same time he found out there was an opening for a bass player in the Army Jazz band. Stayed up all night learning how to play electric bass, and somehow passed the audition the next day.

A few months later the unit he would have gone into was ambushed, all killed.